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 via Social Media: FBI’s counterterrorism division adds threat tags to parents who protest school boards.
USA Today rating: False (No they are not) Fact check: FBI is not using threat tags on parents who protest at school board meetings |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim by Viral Image: “Celine Dion has been paralyzed by the COVID vaccine and cancels her tour.”
Politifact rating: False (There’s no evidence to support this claim. Celine Dion said she had to cancel some performances due to muscle spasms) Baseless claims about COVID-19 vaccine paralysis and Celine Dion spread online |
| FALSE | Claim via Rumble Video: Aboriginal Population In Australia’s Northern Territory Is Being Forcibly Vaccinated Against COVID-19.
Lead Stories rating: False (It is voluntary) |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: Nancy Pelosi just went into contract to buy a Florida oceanfront mansion for $25 million.
Lead Stories rating: False (Did not buy a mansion in Florida) Fact Check: Nancy Pelosi Did NOT Buy A 25-Million-Dollar Mansion In Florida |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim by PragerU: “Greenland’s ice sheet isn’t shrinking any more rapidly today than it was 80 years ago.”
Climate Feedback rating: False (It is shrinking at 2.5x the rate.) PragerU video on climate change repeats a range of misleading claims by Steven Koonin |
| FALSE | (International: Australia): A photo of a gigantic crowd implies it is from recent COVID-19 lockdown protests in Vienna.
Australian Associated Press rating: False (The photo is from protests in Moscow in 1991.) |
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