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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| MOSTLY TRUE |
Claim by Eric Adams (D): “Fifty-one percent of our taxes are paid by 2% of New Yorkers.”
Politifact rating: Mostly True (The 2% of New York City tax filers with the highest incomes pay half of all of the city’s collections of personal income taxes. There is no data to show how much these rich New Yorkers pay in other taxes, such as real estate or sales taxes.) Claim about wealthy residents and taxes in New York City needs context |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via viral image: U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene only has three toes on each foot.
Snopes rating: False (The photo is manipulated. There are photos of her feet that demonstrate she has five toes.) |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: “BREAKING Trump preps Marines to stop presidential coup.”
PolitiFact rating: False (Donald Trump is no longer the U.S. military’s commander in chief.) Donald Trump isn’t commander in chief anymore; he’s not preparing U.S. Marines to stop ‘coup’ |
| TRUE | Claim by Marjorie Taylor Greene (R): There are more than 1,700 train derailments per year in the US.
VERIFYThis.com rating: True (On average, there are more than 1,700 train derailments annually.) |
| FALSE | Claim via Social Media: Rifles “were involved in 297 deaths” in the U.S. in 2022 and “constipation killed 2,167.”
PolitiFact rating: False (The latest FBI count of people killed by rifles is 447, in 2021. The latest tally by the federal Centers for Disease Control of deaths caused by constipation is 207, in 2020.) Nothing to back up claim that constipation killed seven times more people than rifles in US |
| FALSE | (International: Poland): An image from Polish television shows Volodymyr Zelensky with a body double
AFP Fact Check rating: False (Bodyguard) Footage shows Volodymyr Zelensky’s bodyguard, not body double |
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