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. We fact-check the fact-checkers and let you know their bias. 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: “Ukrainian President [Zelensky] fled Kiev abandoning his people [and] broadcasts Presidential videos with a green screen.”
FactCheck.org rating: False (No Evidence) Zelensky Remains in Ukraine, Despite False Claims on Social Media |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: Third COVID shot did cause rapid cancer growth.
Lead Stories rating: False (Based on one case that was inconclusive.) |
| FALSE | Claim via Social Media: A Ukrainian combat medic who died in February was seen in a video Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky posted of his visit to see wounded soldiers.
PolitiFact rating: False (The woman who appears with Zelensky in the video and in photographs of his visit is Tetiana Ostashchenko — not Inna Derusova, who died in February.) No, Zelensky’s hospital visit video doesn’t feature combat medic who died weeks earlier |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: Poland is sending jets to a US air base in Germany to send to Ukraine.
USA Today rating: False (US rejected it.) Fact check: US rejected Polish plan to send fighter jets to Ukraine |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via viral image: One pregnant crisis actor played the part of several pregnant women for propaganda photos at the site of a bombed non-operational hospital
Lead Stories rating: False (Real Patients) Fact Check: Real Patients Were Killed, Injured In Russian Bombing Of Mariupol Maternity Hospital |
| FALSE | (International: United Kingdom): Claim by Riccardo Bosi (Far-Right AustraliaOne Party): Ukraine is not a sovereign state and is part of Russia.
Australian Associated Press rating: False (Ukraine declared independence in 1991 and fulfills the criteria for statehood under international law.) |
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