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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| NO EVIDENCE |
Claim by Retired Nurse John Campbell: EuroMOMO data shows excess deaths in people aged 0 to 14; excess deaths in Europe cannot be explained by COVID-19.
Health Feedback rating: Misleading (The EuroMOMO bulletin published on the second week of 2023 clarified that the system didn’t actually detect excess deaths in people aged 0 to 14, despite Campbell’s claim to the contrary.) |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: Aborted fetal cells are in artificial flavors added to food products people eat.
Lead Stories rating: False (Not In Food) Fact Check: Aborted Fetal Cells NOT Used In Artificial Flavors In Food |
| MISLEADING | Claim via Social Media: The amount the U.S. has spent in Ukraine is “double the U.S. expenditure for its own war in Afghanistan.”
Politifact rating: False (Congress has approved about $111 billion in aid to Ukraine since the country was invaded by Russia in February 2022. During a 20-year entanglement in Afghanistan, the U.S. spent between $825 billion and $2.3 trillion, depending on the source of the estimate and what’s being included.) |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: More than 1500 athletes have suffered cardiac arrest since COVID vaccinations began, compared to a previous average of 29 per year. Australian Associated Press rating: False (The claim is based on a list that attributes deaths to cardiac arrest even when another cause is known, such as cancer or car accidents.) |
| FALSE | Claim via Social Media: The Transportation Security Administration spent “a couple hundred million dollars” on gender-neutral screening technology.
Politifact rating: False (The Transportation Security Administration spent $18.6 million on gender-neutral screening technology, not “hundreds of millions,” as a video claimed.) Claim vastly overstates government’s spending on TSA’s gender-neutral screening technology |
| FALSE | (International: Philippines): President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. used his family’s wealth to fund government activities.
Rappler rating: False FACT CHECK: Marcos didn’t use family wealth for gov’t activities |
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