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
| FALSE | Claim by Dr. Simone Gold (America’s Frontline Doctors): Centers for Disease Control and Prevention “officially recommends administering ivermectin as presumptive therapy (giving medication without a diagnosis) to refugees.”
FactCheck.org rating: False (Given for its clinical use as an anti-parasitic drug.) Social Media Post on Use of Ivermectin for Refugees Lacks Context |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: CDC warns of polio-like disease outbreak coming 2021
USA Today rating: False (nope, Polio essentially eradicated through vaccines)
Fact check: No, the CDC didn’t warn of a polio-like disease outbreak coming in 2021 |
| MOSTLY FALSE |
Claim by Melissa Agard (D): “No other country on the planet witnesses the number of gun deaths that we do here in the United States, and it’s not even close.”
PolitiFact rating: Mostly False (Most recent data shows the US ranks second to Brazil. When the population of countries are factored in, the US falls to 32nd. USA #1 in high-income developed nations with 10 million or more people. United States’ gun deaths are among highest in the world, but only the highest by one measure |
| FALSE | Claim via Social Media: “Black Africans possess more DNA series than any other group on earth”; The more DNA series you have, the greater your potential for genius”; “they copyrighted that study, to hide that truth”
Health Feedback rating: Inaccurate (about evolution out of Africa theory, never mentions genius, and copyright is standard.) 1996 paper is about human evolution, not potential for genius |
| MOSTLY FALSE |
Claim by Chris Murphy (D): “Studies of our drone strikes have suggested that maybe eight out of 10 times we are hitting the wrong target, we have killed thousands of civilians.”
The Washington Post rating: Three Pinocchios Analysis | Murphy’s misfired claim that 8 out of 10 U.S. drones miss their target |
| FALSE | (International: Philippines): President Rodrigo Duterte brought FA-50 fighter jets as part of the Armed Forces of the Philippines’ (AFP) modernization program.
Rappler rating: False |
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