The Latest Fact Checks curated by Media Bias Fact Check 02/28/2023

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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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FALSE Claim by Viral image: There is a  “Leaked audio recording of Biden and Zelenskyy talking in private.”

PolitiFact rating: False (Nope. No evidence of a leak.)

Don’t fall for this promise of a ‘leaked’ recording of Biden and Zelenskyy

BLATANT
LIE
Claim by NewsPunch: Hillary Clinton said, ‘It’s time to ban cash to fight climate change

USA Today rating: False (They made it up. She never said it.)

Fact check: False claim Hillary Clinton endorsed eliminating cash to fight climate change

Newspunch Rating

BLATANT
LIE
Claim via Social Media: “President Joe Biden admits to faking the election.”

PolitiFact rating: False (This audio clip isn’t an authentic recording of the president.)

No, President Joe Biden didn’t admit the 2020 presidential election was stolen

TRUE Claim via Viral Image: A photograph shows former U.S. President Donald Trump pictured with a former hitman for the Gambino crime family.

Snopes.com rating: True

Is This a Photo of Trump With Former Mafia Hitman?

FALSE Claim via Social Media: “Biden admin negotiates deal to give WHO authority over US pandemic policies.”

Politifact rating: False (Language in the draft says states have the sovereign right to manage their own public health responses.)

WHO pandemic accord doesn’t replace U.S. sovereignty

FALSE (International: New Zealand): Excess deaths in New Zealand increased by 3203 per cent from 2020 to 2022 due to COVID-19 vaccines.

Australian Associated Press rating: False (Excess deaths changed from -0.5 per cent in 2020 to 17.3 percent in 2022. There is no evidence the increase was due to vaccines.)

Excess deaths claim undone by ‘nonsensical’ calculation

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1 Comment on "The Latest Fact Checks curated by Media Bias Fact Check 02/28/2023"

  1. “Claim via Viral Image: A photograph shows former U.S. President Donald Trump pictured with a former hitman for the Gambino crime family.
    Snopes.com rating: True”.

    Trump was also seen with black people (Al Sharpton, Don King, Jesse Jackson, Herschel Walker) yet is still called a racist.

    The common bullschitte put out by the MSM, Hunter Biden’s laptop is a Russian plant and Joe Biden never talked to his son about business. Some of us weigh the issues

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