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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
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| TRUE | Claim by the Daily Mail: U. S. President Joe Biden was building a wall on his beach house property using taxpayer money in 2023.
Snopes rating: True (These types of security enhancements allow for more efficient Secret Service protection and are commonplace for current — and even former — U.S. presidents.) Is Joe Biden Using Taxpayer Money To Build a Wall Around His Beach House? |
| FALSE | Claim by Tucker Carlson: The election in Brazil “was very clearly a rigged election.”
Politifact rating: False (He is making it up. Brazilian and international observers of the election concluded that the election was not rigged.) Tucker Carlson’s unfounded claim that Brazil’s election was rigged |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social media: Pilots started training for sudden death during a flight in 2022.
USA Today rating: False (This training is nothing new. The Federal Aviation Administration, major airlines and an aviation expert said that pilots have trained for in-flight incapacitation for decades. The FAA said it is not aware of any cases of in-flight pilot deaths related to the COVID-19 vaccine. Fact check: Pilots have trained for in-flight incapacitation for years |
| MOSTLY TRUE |
Claim via Social Media: Egg prices have increased due to a bird flu outbreak.
VERIFYThis.com rating: Mostly True (Egg prices have increased due to a bird flu outbreak and inflation.) |
| MOSTLY TRUE |
Claim by Hakeem Jeffries (D): A “default on our debt” would be unprecedented in American history.
PolitiFact rating: Mostly True (The closest analogue might be a delay in payments to bondholders in 1979 because of technical glitches. But most payments resumed in a few days or a week, once the glitches were fixed.) Hakeem Jeffries said a U.S. debt limit default would be a historical first. He’s mostly right. |
| FALSE | (International: Philippines): Former president Ferdinand E. Marcos invested 200,000 metric tons of gold in Switzerland.
Rappler rating: False FACT CHECK: Impossible for Marcos to invest 200,000 metric tons of gold in Switzerland |
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