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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 via Social Media: “Luke Bryan pulls his videos from CMT: ‘Time for the Bud Light treatment.’”
PolitiFact rating: False (A satire story shared by the gullible.) Luke Bryan didn’t encourage giving CMT ‘the Bud Light treatment.’ That originated on satire site |
| TRUE | Claim: Pope Benedict XVI, born Joseph Ratzinger in Germany in 1927, was a member of the Hitler Youth.
Snopes rating: True (When Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) turned 14 in 1941 in Germany, he was legally required to join the Hitler Youth.) |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: Joe Biden falls asleep during in a important meeting with the President of Israel
Lead Stories rating: False (Reading Notes) Fact Check: Biden Did NOT Fall Asleep While Meeting With Israeli President Herzog |
| FALSE | Claim by The Florida Standard: “Pfizer’s COVID Shot Was Only Tested on 250 People”
Health Feedback rating: Misleading (The claim that “Process 2” vaccines were tested on 250 people in total is misleading because the clinical trial protocol indicated that it was tested on 250 people per lot, which indicates that there were ultimately more than 250 participants in total.) |
| TRUE | Claim by Yusef Salaam: Donald Trump “never said sorry for calling for my execution” as a member of the “Central Park Five.”
PolitiFact rating: True (Trump still believes group’s guilt) |
| FALSE | (International: China): Claim by Global Times: “Compared with the U.S., with its crackdowns, containment and protectionist approach that continues to drag down the global economy, China has been sticking to an opening-up approach with global investors while striving to maintain its own growth momentum.”
POLYGRAPH.info rating: False Contrary to Claim, China Isn’t ‘Opening Up’ to Global Investors |
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