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 FALSE |
Claim by Rick Scott (R): The IRS is adding 87,000 new agents, making the IRS “larger than (the) Pentagon, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Customs and Border Protection and the State Department combined.”
Politifact rating: Mostly False (If the IRS hired all 87,000 new employees at once, and no existing employees left the agency, the IRS would still be about 34,000 employees smaller than the Pentagon, State Department, FBI, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection combined, according to the best available figures.) |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim by Viral Image: claims former President Donald Trump sent an email about “the nuke codes” after the raid on Mar-a-Lago.
Check Your Fact rating: False (digitally altered.) FACT CHECK: Did Donald Trump Send This Email About ‘The Nuke Codes’? |
| NO EVIDENCE |
Claim by Donald Trump (R): Trump “had a “standing order … that documents removed from the Oval Office and taken to the [Mar-a-Lago] residence were deemed to be declassified the moment he removed them.”
FactCheck.org rating: Disputed (No evidence) |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: Woman Found At Bottom Of River Bound By Concrete Block Linked To Suspicious Death Of Former Clinton Advisor Epstein Fixer
Lead Stories rating: False (crackpot Clinton body count conspiracy.) |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim by Just The News and Social Media: Jim Jordan Said 14 FBI Agents Spoke To Him After Trump Raid
Newsweek rating: False (He was not referring to the FBI raid. Further, there is no evidence that 14 FBI agents came forward.) Fact Check: Did Jim Jordan say 14 FBI agents spoke to him About Trump raid? |
| FALSE | (International: North Korea): North Korea is sending 100,000 soldiers to aid Russia to ‘occupy’ Ukraine.
Rappler rating: False |
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Claim by Rick Scott (R): The IRS is adding 87,000 new agents, making the IRS “larger than (the) Pentagon, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Customs and Border Protection and the State Department combined.”
Politifact rating: Mostly False (If the IRS hired all 87,000 new employees at once, and no existing employees left the agency, the IRS would still be about 34,000 employees smaller than the Pentagon, State Department, FBI, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection combined, according to the best available figures.)
Rick Scott overstates potential hiring surge at the IRS
MISSING THE POINT! .