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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| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: “Anyway. Cambridge Dictionary now says the word ‘WOMAN’ means ‘men”
Reuters Fact Check rating: False (The dictionary did not change its definition but added a further, additional meaning. It still begins “an adult female human being.”) Fact Check-Cambridge Dictionary expanded, not replaced its definition of “woman” |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim by Donald Trump (R): The Trump administration “got 58 hostages released from various hostile countries without paying any money, or giving up anything.”
FactCheck.org rating: False (all of Trump’s hostage exchanges involved swapping something.) |
| TRUE | Claim via Social Media: SEC makes Elon Musk clear his Tesla tweets before posting.
Newsweek rating: True (The restriction was part of a consent decree, agreed with the SEC in 2018, which had brought a securities charge against the Twitter CEO, alleging he had used Twitter to inflate the price of Tesla stock.) Fact Check: Does SEC Make Elon Musk Clear His Tesla Tweets Before Posting? |
| FALSE | Claim by Bernie Sanders (I): “We have 85 million Americans who have no health insurance.”
FactCheck.org rating: False (The government estimates it is 27 million) Bernie Sanders Overstates Number of Americans Without Health Insurance |
| TRUE | Claim: Dripping faucets during freezing weather can help prevent pipe bursts.
VERIFYThis.com rating: True (It is getting cold out there and dripping faucets can help prevent pipes from freezing and bursting.) |
| FALSE | (International: United Kingdom): Claim by the Expose: CDC Quietly Confirms 118K Children and Young Adults Died Suddenly Since COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout FDA EUA
Lead Stories rating: False (Unrelated Data) |
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