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
| MOSTLY TRUE |
Claim by Colin Allred (D): “You’ve had over 2 million women drop out of the workforce during this pandemic.”
Politifact rating: Mostly True (If you extend that time frame to October 2021, there is nearly 1.8 million fewer women in the labor force between February 2020 and October 2021, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data.) Allred says fewer women are in the labor force because of the pandemic |
| FALSE | Claim by Social media posts: Placing essential oils in your navel can help with a variety of health problems.
Australian Associated Press rating: False. (While essential oils may bring a placebo effect, applying them to the belly button is quackery.) Benefits of essential oils poured into mythical gland is navel gazing |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: Biden Failed To Acknowledge Waukesha Christmas Parade Killings
Lead Stories rating: False (Did Discuss It) Fact Check: Biden Did NOT Fail To Acknowledge Waukesha Christmas Parade Killings |
| MOSTLY FALSE |
Claim by Rick Scott (R): An increase in Medicare Part B premiums means “America’s seniors are paying the price for Biden’s inflation crisis.”
Politifact rating: Mostly False (Medicare officials cited three main factors for the increase: rising health care costs, a move by Congress last year that held the premium increase to just $3 a month because of the pandemic and the need to raise money for a possible unprecedented surge in drug costs. Inflation was not on that list.) Florida Sen. Rick Scott off-base in claim that Medicare premiums are rising due to inflation |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim by brighteon.com: Video Shows Priest Dying Suddenly After Receiving COVID-19 Vaccination
Lead Stories rating: False (Passed Out) |
| FALSE | (International: Australia): claims to show Australian police beating a person in a wheelchair during a protest against COVID-19 restrictions.
Check Your Fact rating: False FACT CHECK: Video Claims To Show Australian Police Beating Someone In A Wheelchair |
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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