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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| FALSE | Claim via Social Media: “96% of U.S. climate data is corrupted.”
PolitiFact rating: False (There is widespread consensus that average temperatures are rising both in the U.S. and globally. Although not all temperature stations are stationed in areas with ideal research conditions, experts said those that aren’t are maintained in order to provide a consistent historical record of temperature changes over time. The data is also evaluated and adjusted for potential biases.) Fact-checking a talking point about ‘corrupted’ climate change data |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has a net worth of $29 million
USA Today rating: False (has assets less than 100K.) Fact check: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has assets of less than $100,000 |
| FALSE | Claim via KUSI News: “67% of the deaths are from the vaccinated”; “67% of your COVID deaths that you’re creating are from your virus that you’re putting within these people”
Health Feedback rating: Incorrect (The claim that COVID-19 vaccines can cause the disease is baseless as they don’t contain a fully functional SARS-CoV-2 virus. The four COVID-19 vaccines distributed in the U.S. only contain a fragment of it: the spike protein or the genetic information to produce it.) |
| FALSE | Claim by entrepreneur Steve Kirsch: Governments around the world kill 12 million people by giving them COVID shots.
Lead Stories rating: False (The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have only identified “nine deaths causally associated with … COVID-19 vaccination.” All of them involved people who received the Johnson & Johnson/Janssen COVID shot.) Fact Check: COVID Shots Given By Governments Did NOT Kill 12M People Worldwide |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim by Viral image: “Tulsi Gabbard Venmos Nancy Pelosi $600.01 forcing the IRS to audit Pelosi’s finances.”
PolitiFact rating: False (This originated on a self-described satire site.) |
| FALSE | (International: Canada): CBC reported that Justin Trudeau’s youngest son came out as transgender
AFP Fact Check rating: False |
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