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)
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| FALSE | Claim via Social Media: Greta Thunberg tweeted that climate change would wipe out humanity by June 2023.
FactCheck.org rating: False (A Harvard University professor warned in 2018 that steps were needed over the next five years to reduce carbon pollution to preserve Arctic ice. Climate activist Greta Thunberg then shared a tweet that misquoted the professor. But recent social media posts have distorted Thunberg’s tweet to falsely claim she predicted human extinction by 2023.) Viral Posts Distort Greta Thunberg Tweet Warning About Climate Change |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: lab grown meat is made grown using pre cancer cancerous cells.
Lead Stories rating: False (Safe To Eat and not made of cancer cells.) Fact Check: Lab-Grown Meat Is NOT Cultivated From Cancerous Or Pre-Cancerous Animal Cells |
| FALSE | Claim via Social Media: President Joe Biden “literally just admitted ON CAMERA that he sold state secrets.”
FactCheck.org rating: False (Out of Context as he made a joke.) Misleading Online Posts Distort Biden’s Joke at Meeting with Indian Prime Minister |
| TRUE | Claim: Gas stoves produce hazardous emissions.
KHOU rating: True (Gas stoves produce hazardous emissions.) Studies have shown gas stoves produce hazardous emissions | khou.com |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: NASA space rockets can’t reach space.
PolitiFact rating: Pants on Fire (there are decades of evidence to suggest otherwise.) After decades of space travel, claiming that NASA rockets can’t reach space is Pants on Fire! |
| FALSE | (International: Philippines): During the administrations of former presidents Manuel L. Quezon and Ferdinand E. Marcos, refugees were sent to a remote island far from the Philippine mainland.
Rappler rating: False |
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