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 Ron DeSantis (R): “In Florida, we eliminated critical race theory from our K through 12 schools.”
PolitiFact rating: Mostly False (Educators, school officials and several Florida public school districts told us that CRT has never been part of the state curriculum.) Fact-check: What Republican candidates got right, wrong in first debate on Fox News |
| TRUE | Claim by Chris Christie (R): Did Donald Trump call to suspend the Constitution?
Newsweek rating: True (In December 2022, while continuing to push the false claim that he lost the 2020 election due to widespread voter fraud, Trump suggested the “termination of all rules…even those found in the Constitution” was merited.) |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim by Vivek Ramaswamy (R): “The reality is more people are dying of bad climate change policies than they are of actual climate change.”
Politifact rating: Pants on Fire (Worldwide, extreme weather disasters made worse by climate change caused more than 2 million deaths between 1970 and 2021, the World Meteorological Organization said. Because of better warning systems, death rates from weather disasters have declined over the past 50 years. Some climate change skeptics have misconstrued this as evidence against climate change.) More deaths from climate policies than climate change? Scientists say Ramaswamy’s claim is baseless |
| FALSE | (International: Australia): The term global warming was changed to climate change because the earth wasn’t warming as predicted.
Australian Associated Press rating: False (Global warming is still used to describe a warming planet and was never interchangeable with climate change. The earth has warmed, as predicted.) |
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