The Latest Fact Checks curated by Media Bias Fact Check 05/09/2023

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MOSTLY FALSE	Claim by Tricia Cotham (R): Minority Leader Robert Reives “sent out a statement … encouraging us to resign and/or (face) a primary challenge.” Politifact rating: Mostly False (Reives didn’t call for anyone to resign nor did he specifically encourage a primary against anyone who helped Republicans repeal the pistol permit requirement.) Cotham exaggerates statements of Democratic leader
MOSTLY FALSE	Claim via Social Media: The Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives is giving itself a pay raise even as it proposes slashing federal spending for military veterans. AP News rating: Mostly False (Not exclusively a GOP idea and isn’t technically a salary increase.) Post misrepresents House reimbursement change, spending cuts
FALSE	Claim via Viral Video: Viral video shows people climbing fence at U.S.-Mexico border. KGW rating: False (The video was taken in March 2022 from a city in North Africa.) Viral video claiming to show border ‘crisis’ was taken in Melilla
MOSTLY TRUE	Claim via Social Media: “Texas Republicans just voted to give a Republican appointee the power to single-handedly CANCEL election results in the state’s largest Democratic county.” PolitiFact rating: Mostly True (The Texas Senate voted in favor of SB 1993, which says the secretary of state will call for a new election if a county runs out of ballots at 2% of voting sites. The bill says it applies only to counties with a population of at least 2.7 million people, which means it applies only to Harris County.) Yes, a Texas bill would give GOP power to call election do-overs in left-leaning Harris County
BLATANT LIE	Claim via Social Media: Executive Order 14009 offers free health insurance to US citizens. AFP Fact Check rating: False (It did not) Biden executive order did not establish free health insurance
FALSE	(International: Philippines): President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has ordered to revert the name of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) to the Manila International Airport (MIA). Rappler rating: False FACT CHECK: Marcos did not order renaming of NAIA

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