Each day Media Bias Fact Check selects and publishes fact checks from around the world. We only utilize fact-checkers that are either a signatory of the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) or have been verified as credible by MBFC. Further, we review each fact check for accuracy before publishing. (D. Van Zandt)
Claim Codes: Red = Fact Check on a Right Claim, Blue = Fact Check on a Left Claim, Black = Not Political/Conspiracy/Pseudoscience/Other
| TRUE | Claim by Mandela Barnes (D): In Afghanistan, “over 100 billion dollars spent on military contracts.”
Politifact rating: True Yes, over $100 billion was spent on military contracts in Afghanistan |
| FALSE | Claim via Social Media: Farmers Are Being Told They Must Destroy Their Crops
Lead Stories rating: False (No Such Plan) Fact Check: Farmers Are NOT Being Told They Must Destroy Their Crops |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: “Friendly reminder: Cigarettes are FDA approved.”
PolitiFact rating: False (Friendly reminder…they aren’t) No, the FDA hasn’t approved cigarettes, or any tobacco product |
| TRUE | Claim via Social Media: Poison control calls jumped 550% in Texas from use of horse and cow dewormer
USA Today rating: True (No words) Fact check: 590% jump in poison control calls about ivermectin seen in Texas |
| FALSE | Claim by Robert Malone: When the Pfizer-BioNTech Comirnaty vaccine becomes available “it will no longer have the liability shield.”
FactCheck.org rating: False (Dr. of misinformation) Researcher Distorts Facts on COVID-19 Vaccine Approval, Liability |
| BLATANT LIE |
(International: Australia): Claim by National File: The Australian government seized and forcibly vaccinated 24,000 students.
Australian Associated Press rating: False Article on ‘forced’ Australian student vaccinations fails on facts |
Disclaimer: We are providing links to fact checks by third-party fact-checkers. If you do not agree with a fact check, please directly contact the source of that fact check.
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