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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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| BLATANT LIE |
Claim by Slay News: “Zero Amish children diagnosed with cancer, diabetes or autism.”
PolitiFact rating: Pants on Fire (Experts, studies and news coverage show that there are not “zero” Amish children diagnosed with cancer, diabetes and autism.) No Amish kids get cancer, diabetes, autism? That’s Pants on Fire! |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim by The People’s Voice: WEF Says CBDCs Must Be Implanted Under Your Skin if You Want To Participate in Society
Lead Stories rating: False (No Such Plans Exist) Fact Check: World Economic Forum Did NOT State CBDC Chips Must Be ‘Implanted Under Your Skin’ |
| FALSE | Claim by Marjorie Taylor Greene (R): “For the better part of the last decade, Germany has contributed only around 1 percent of its GDP to finance NATO obligations, while the United States is paying around 4 percent of our GDP to defend NATO countries.”
The Dispatch rating: False (The Defense Department projects all of Defense spending will represent only 2.7 percent of GDP in 2024, with NATO spending representing a small portion of that.) Fact Check: Does the U.S. Spend 4 Percent of Economic Output Defending NATO Countries? |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: Former President Donald Trump rescued deformed children who were born into sex slavery in tunnels under Central Park in New York.
PolitiFact rating: Pants on Fire (100% made up.) Trump didn’t rescue children born into sex slavery under Central Park, despite online claims |
| FALSE | Claim by Joe Biden (R): “Africa is going to have 1 billion people by the end of this decade. A billion people. A billion.”
Check Your Fact rating: False (Reached 1 billion in 2009.) FACT CHECK: Joe Biden Makes Claims About Guns, NRA And Federal Deficit At Recent Campaign Event |
| FALSE | (International: India): A church in Manipur was set on fire by pro-BJP extremists.
The Quint rating: False Video of Fire in a Church in France Falsely Linked To Manipur Violence |
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