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 by Charlie Kirk: “2 hour wait minimum at most polling places in Maricopa. Democrats running elections here knew this would happen. Traffic jam by design. DONT LET THEM DO 2020 AGAIN.”
FactCheck.org rating: False (Tabulating machines at some polling locations in Maricopa County, Arizona, couldn’t process ballots during part of Election Day, though affected voters could leave their ballots in a secure box or go elsewhere to vote.) Ballot Printer Delayed Maricopa Voting, Contrary to Unfounded Claims |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim by Citizens for Sanity: President Joe Biden and Democrats “send a fortune to Ukraine but nothing for our children.”
PolitiFact rating: Pants on Fire (One of the efforts from Democrats — an expansion of the child tax credit that was included in Biden’s American Rescue Plan of 2021 — paid out $92 billion to U.S. families with children, or 1.5 times the amount that the U.S. has spent so far on Ukraine.) Ad comparing spending on Ukraine, US children is ridiculously wrong |
| TRUE | Did he say it?: Former U.S. President Donald Trump said in an interview about GOP candidates before the 2022 midterm elections: “I think if they win, I should get all the credit, and if they lose, I should not be blamed at all.”
Snopes.com rating: Correct Attribution Did Trump Say If GOP Candidates Win 2022 Election, He Should Get ‘All the Credit’? |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim by Mike Lindell: Midterm election graphs promoted by My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell on social media and his Frank Speech website prove the races were stolen.
Lead Stories rating: False (Nothing out of ordinary.) Fact Check: Mike Lindell’s 2022 Midterm Election Graphs Do NOT Prove Races Were Stolen |
| FALSE | Claim by Zachary Stieber, Stephen Hussey: “SARS-CoV-2 vaccination was associated with higher risk of myocarditis death […] risk of myocarditis following SARS-CoV-2 vaccination may be more serious than that reported previously”
Health Feedback rating: Unsupported |
| FALSE | (International: Australia): Claim by Joel Jammal: Former US vice-president Mike Pence acted improperly by not excluding contested states’ votes from the 2020 US election result.
Australian Associated Press rating: False (Mr Pence had no power to exclude votes. Even if he did, no state legislatures formally contested the result of the public vote.) |
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