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
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| MOSTLY TRUE |
Claim by Val Demings (D): Sen. Marco Rubio has “one of the worst attendance records in the Senate.”
Politifact rating: Mostly True (The ad said Rubio has one of the worst attendance records in the Senate. Overall, Rubio has missed 9.2% of 3,744 roll call votes since 2011 — well above the average of 2.3% among members of the Senate.) |
| FALSE | Claim via Social Media: Tylenol use during pregnancy is linked to autism.
Lead Stories rating: False (no evidence to date) Fact Check: NO Evidence Tylenol Use During Pregnancy Is Linked To Autism |
| FALSE | Claim via Social Media: President Joe Biden mistakenly read the cues off the teleprompter when he said “end of quote” and “repeat the line.”
FactCheck.org rating: False (It was intentional) Social Media Posts Misleadingly Edit and Misrepresent Biden Remarks from Teleprompter |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: A woman experienced a fentanyl overdose after touching a folded dollar bill she found at a west Nashville McDonald’s.
Lead Stories rating: False (There’s no evidence of that: The dollar bill was never tested for narcotics and the woman was never treated for a fentanyl overdose at the hospital she was taken to. |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: Claims the James Webb Space Telescope is “fakery they got for the masses”
Politifact rating: Pants on Fire (I suppose it was just a matter of time for this type of crackpot claim was made.) The James Webb Space Telescope and the images it has taken are real |
| FALSE | (International: China): Claim by Chinese Communist Youth League: “It’s been exposed that the United States has been collecting cholera pathogens in Ukraine.”
POLYGRAPH.info rating: False |
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