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
Fact Checker bias rating Codes: Red = Right-Leaning, Green = Least Biased, Blue = Left-Leaning, Black = Unrated by MBFC
| FALSE | Claim by Rebecca Kleefisch (R): The Biden Department of Justice “would use the FBI to target parents who speak out against critical race theory.”
PolitiFact rating: False (The AG clarified that “spirited debate” is protected under the First Amendment — which would protect parents who want to speak out. ) Kleefisch misses mark with claim that the FBI will be targeting parents on critical race theory |
| FALSE | Claim via Social Media: Kyle Rittenhouse Crossed State Lines With An AR-15.
Lead Stories rating: False (The gun he used in the shooting in Kenosha, Wisconsin, was “purchased, stored and used in Wisconsin) Fact Check: Kyle Rittenhouse Did NOT Cross State Lines With An AR-15 |
| FALSE | Claim by Ben Swann: “Statistically, the numbers” of COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths “are pretty much the same as they were before the vaccine.”
FactCheck.org rating: False (based on one study that was misinterpreted) Video Questioning Vaccine Efficacy Pushes Falsehood About Israel Data |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim by healthimpactnews.com: 2,433 Dead Babies Found In VAERS As Another Study Does Show mRNA Shots Unsafe for Pregnant Women Lead Stories rating: False (ridiculous crackpottery) |
| FALSE | Claim by Viral image: “79.4% of babies who die of ‘SIDS’ had a vaccine the same day.”
PolitiFact rating: False (Vaccines due not Cause SIDS) |
| FALSE | (International: Pakistan): Fawad Chaudhry kicked out of National Assembly
AFP Fact Check rating: False False reports Pakistan information minister ‘thrown out’ of parliament shared online |
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