The Latest Fact Checks curated by Media Bias Fact Check 05/01/2023

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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

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MOSTLY FALSE	Claim via Social Media: “Face masks may raise risk of stillbirths, testicular dysfunction and cognitive decline, study warns.” Politifact rating: Mostly False (The “study” was an article that reviewed studies. It presented no evidence that masks caused serious health problems.) Study does not show that COVID-19 mask wearing raises risk of stillbirths, other health problems
BLATANT LIE	Claim via Social Media: “AOC: The Government Must Shut Down Unapproved News Agencies To Defeat Fascism” The Dispatch rating: False (Originated as satire in the Babylon Bee and shared by the gullible.) Fact Check: Did Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Recommend Shutting Down News Agencies To Oppose Fascism?
BLATANT LIE	Claim via Social Media: Gov. Hochul wants “quarantine camps” and “imprisonment” if you’re suspected of having a disease. Politifact rating: Pants on Fire (A rule that sparked a legal dispute does not call for quarantine camps.) ‘Quarantine camps’ takes NY public health rule too far
BLATANT LIE	Claim via Social media: CDC admits sending deadly batches of COVID-19 vaccines to red states USA Today rating: False (The CDC has not made such an admission, and no such thing happened. The article misrepresents data from the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System, a database where anyone can report what they think are vaccine side effects.) Fact check: False claim CDC said red states got deadly vaccine batches
BLATANT LIE	Claim via Social Media: Twitter owner Elon Musk offered the CEO job at his company to television host Tucker Carlson after he was fired from Fox News in April 2023. Snopes rating: False (Labeled Satire) No, Elon Musk Did Not Offer Tucker Carlson the Job of Twitter CEO
FALSE	(International: United Kingdom): Claim by Noam Chomsky: Jeremy Corbyn won an enormous victory in 2017 – the biggest victory that Labour had won in generations. PA Media rating: False (Whether you look at the number of parliamentary seats won by Labour in 2017 (262) or their share of the vote (40%), the Opposition party lost by a fair margin. While it is true that they performed better than in the 2015 election, when they won 30.4% of the vote and 232 seats, they still fell far short of the Conservative Party, which won far more seats (317) and the largest vote of any parliamentary party (42.3%). The Conservative Party won the 2017 General Election

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