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

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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
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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