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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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| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: A video shows Rep. Jim Jordan threatening House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with “‘possible’ jail time.”
Politifact rating: Pants on Fire (Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, doesn’t threaten House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., with jail time in this video.) No, this video doesn’t show Jim Jordan threatening Nancy Pelosi with jail |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim by Died Suddenly: American sports journalist Grant Wahl died from Covid-19 vaccination.
AFP Fact Check rating: False (an autopsy determined the acclaimed football writer died from a rupture to the main artery that carries blood away from the heart) Grant Wahl died from aortic aneurysm, not vaccination, wife says |
| FALSE | Claim via Social Media: “They removed your ability to go buy firearms the day of election.”
Politifact rating: False (One of the three databases had technical problems on Election Day, causing the system to be unavailable for about an hour. The problem was then fixed.) Firearm background check system had brief glitch, not intentional shutdown, as claim implies |
| FALSE | Claim by Valentin Bruttel: German Scientist ‘Proved’ COVID Was Made in Lab.
Newsweek rating: False (Scientific consensus is that there is very little evidence to suggest that Sars-CoV-2, the virus causing the COVID-19 disease, was man-made or created in a lab.) Fact Check: Did German Scientist ‘Prove’ COVID Was Made in a Lab? |
| FALSE | Claim by Viral image: “Disney pushes ‘We love Satan’ in new family Christmas movie.”
PolitiFact rating: False (Elves accidentally misspell the word “Santa” as “Satan” in the new Disney+ show “The Santa Clauses,” but shriek when they realize their mistake and quickly correct it. ) |
| FALSE | (International: Australia): Camps were created for the unvaccinated during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Australian Associated Press rating: False (Camps were not created or used to house the unvaccinated.) |
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