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. When appropriate we explain the rating and/or offer our own rating if we disagree with the fact-checker. (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
| MOSTLY FALSE |
Claim by Joe Biden (D): People who are vaccinated for the coronavirus “cannot spread it to you.”
PolitiFact rating: Half True (Multiple studies show that a vaccinated person is significantly less likely to pass the coronavirus to someone else than an unvaccinated person is.) MBFC Disagrees: Mostly False (Transmission risk is not reduced to zero.) Joe Biden overstates how well vaccines prevent person-to-person virus spread |
| MOSTLY TRUE |
Claim by Donald Trump Jr.: A YouTube series featuring Kamala Harris talking to kids about science uses paid child actors. The Dispatch Fact Check rating: Mostly True (While Trump Jr.’s claim that Harris herself hired the kids is incorrect, the claim that they are child actors is true.) |
| FALSE | Claim by Byron Brown (D): “My opponent’s plan for people who commit sexual assault, sexual predators, is no jail time.”
PolitiFact rating: False (Walton’s campaign has noted that mayors do not make sentencing laws, and that restorative justice programs would work in parallel with the existing criminal legal system.) |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim by Donald Trump (R): “In Pennsylvania, there were reportedly hundreds of thousands of more votes than there were voters. Oh, I see Philadelphia, more votes than voters. That’s a tough one to explain. Why didn’t they do something about that?” The Washington Post rating: Four Pinocchios (Debunked conspiracies) |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: The FBI considers anti-CRT protests a ‘domestic terror threat’
USA Today rating: False (No they don’t!) Fact check: False claim the FBI deemed critical race theory protesters a terror threat |
| MOSTLY TRUE |
(International: Nigeria): Claim by Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari: “In the northeast region alone, over 8,000 Boko Haram terrorists have surrendered.”
Africa Check rating: Mostly Correct Nigeria at 61: checking president Buhari’s 2021 Independence Day claims |
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