The Latest Fact Checks curated by Media Bias Fact Check 09/30/2023 (Weekend Edition)

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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

TRUE	Claim by Nikki Haley (R): “Congress has only delivered a budget on time four times in 40 years.” PolitiFact rating: True (This is accurate) Fact-check: Republican candidates spar on immigration, crime, economy in second debate Nikki Haley Rating
BLATANT LIE	Claim via Social Media: Phoenix Becomes First U.S. City To Impose WEF’s Ban on Meat, Dairy, Private Cars. Lead Stories rating: False (Didn’t Happen) Fact Check: Phoenix Did NOT ‘Impose WEF’s Ban On Meat, Dairy, Private Cars,’ As of September 28, 2023
FALSE	Claim via Social Media: The Covid-19 vaccine increases your chance of getting Covid and spreading Covid, and it damages your immune system to such a degree that you have a higher risk of hospitalization and death. Full Fact rating: False (A large body of evidence shows that the Covid-19 vaccines protect to some extent against infection and substantially against hospitalization and death.) Covid-19 vaccine doesn’t raise risk of catching and dying from the disease – Full Fact
FALSE	(International: Russia): Claim by Anatoly Antonov: “Rewriting the history of World War II is unacceptable. The Brown Plague must be stopped. This is exactly what the Russian Armed Forces are doing in Ukraine under the special military operation.” POLYGRAPH.info rating: False Russia’s US Ambassador Uses Canada Nazi Scandal to Justify Moscow’s War in Ukraine

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