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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 Mandela Barnes (D): Says under his plan to end cash bail “the Waukesha perpetrator wouldn’t have been released “
PolitiFact rating: Mostly True (Under the current system, cash bail is meant to ensure a defendant shows up at trial. It’s not meant to keep the defendant in jail. So, once bail is posted, he or she can go free. It’s possible Brooks might not have been released, but there is no guarantee of that.) High probability that Barnes plan to end cash bail would have kept parade suspect in jail |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim by Viral Video: Ron DeSantis confronted Hunter Biden in Florida.
Check Your Fact rating: False (There is no evidence that DeSantis confronted Hunter Biden in Florida. The videos are not related to either Biden at all.) FACT CHECK: Did Ron DeSantis Confront Hunter Biden In Florida? |
| MISLEADING | Claim by National Republican Senatorial Committee: Sen. Raphael Warnock of Georgia “voted with Biden to slash Medicare spending.”
FactCheck.org rating: Misleading (The bill seeks to cut costs by allowing Medicare to negotiate some prescription drug prices, not by cutting benefits.) |
| FALSE | Claim by The Gateway Pundit and Florida Standard: “Covid-19 Vaccines 98 Times Worse Than the Virus”
Health Feedback rating: Inaccurate (The preprint didn’t report that COVID-19 vaccines are 98 times worse than the virus.) |
| FALSE | Claim via Social Media: No Republicans Thanked Biden for Taking Out the Leader of Al Qaeda.
Lead Stories rating: False (Several GOP members of Congress publicly acknowledged Biden for the July 31, 2022 drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan that killed Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of Al Qaeda and one of the conspirators behind 9/11.) |
| FALSE | (International: Philippines): The Trilateral Commission, a global membership organization, used actress Dovie Beams to blackmail former president Ferdinand E. Marcos.
Rappler rating: False The Trilateral Commission did not use Dovie Beams to blackmail former president Marcos |
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