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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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| MOSTLY FALSE |
Claim by the NC State Democratic Caucus: “North Carolina ranks last in the country in K-12 funding.”
Politifact rating: Mostly False (The Education Law Center ranked North Carolina last in the nation for “funding effort.” That is a measure of the state’s public pre-K to 12th grade funding as a percentage of the state’s gross domestic product. Other measures, including the National Education Association, the Urban Institute and EducationData.org have ranked North Carolina low on its per-pupil funding, but not dead last.) |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim by Viral Image: A photo shows people in Nazi uniforms outside of the courthouse where Trump was held
Check Your Fact rating: False (The photo is miscaptioned. The photo was taken on a movie set in Vancouver, British Columbia.) |
| FALSE | Claim by @DC_Draino: Clip of Biden saying he’ll “stop Trump” taking power.
Newsweek rating: False (The clip shared from Twitter was taken from a White House press conference on November 9, 2022. Biden’s comments had followed on from a much longer conversation about January 6, when the Congressional committee for investigating those events was still yet to make recommended charges.) Fact Check: Clip of Biden Saying He’ll ‘Stop Trump’ Taking Power |
| TRUE | Claim by Ron Desantis (R): Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg “has downgraded over 50% of the felonies to misdemeanors.”
Politifact rating: True (In 2022, the first year Bragg served as Manhattan district attorney, his staff downgraded 52% of felonies that were screened to misdemeanors, an increase from prior years.) Are more than half of felony charges in Manhattan downgraded? Yes, but its common elsewhere, too |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: The world stopped having new COVID-19 variants after Dr. Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, retired at the end of 2022.
Lead Stories rating: False (Still Mutating) Fact Check: New COVID Variants Did NOT Stop ‘All The Sudden’ After Fauci Retirement At End Of 2022 |
| FALSE | (International: India): Arvind Kejriwal did not clear the Indian Institute of Technology Joint Entrance Examination, but got admitted through corporate quota.
boomlive.in rating: False No, Arvind Kejriwal Did Not Get Into IIT Through Quota; He Ranked 563 In JEE | BOOM |
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