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
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim by Election Integrity Project California: “California Has 1.8M More Registered Voters Than It Should.”
Politifact rating: Pants on Fire (When you compare the total number of active voters to the total number of eligible voters, there is no excess of active voters at the state or county level.) |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim by beckernews.com: A 2019 CDC Memo on Ivermectin Blows a Hole in Media’s Narrative: It’s Just a ‘Horse Treatment.’
Lead Stories rating: False (Different Rx) |
| FALSE | Claim by Christian Walker: “The top 1% pays 90% of income taxes.”
PolitiFact rating: False (They pay 40%) A rip on AOC’s dress misses with claim that the top 1% pay 90% of income taxes |
| FALSE | Claim The Healthy American: Disability and civil rights laws protect the right to shop without a mask or proof of vaccination. USA Today rating: False Fact check: Card falsely claims to grant mask and vaccine exemptions |
| FALSE | Claim by Nicki Minaj: Covid-19 vaccine can cause male impotence.
AFP Fact Check rating: False Misleading Nicki Minaj tweet spreads Covid-19 vaccine impotence fears |
| BLATANT LIE |
(International: Afghanistan): Taliban leave Christians to die in bags.
AFP Fact Check rating: False (Staged protest in Columbia) Footage shows anti-government protest in Colombia, not Christians in bags in Afghanistan |
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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