The Latest Fact Checks curated by Media Bias Fact Check 11/15/2023

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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

BLATANT LIE	Claim via Social Media: Roseanne Barr was given $1B from Fox News for show to compete with The View. Check Your Fact rating: False (The claim is inaccurate. No such deal has been announced.) FACT CHECK: Did Fox News Offer Roseanne Barr $1 Billion For A Show To Compete With ‘The View’?
BLATANT LIE	Claim via Social Media: There is no definitive scientific proof through real-world observation that carbon dioxide is responsible for any of the slight warming of the global climate Lead Stories rating: False (The evidence is so overwhelming that carbon dioxide is responsible for warming that it is beyond dispute.) Fact Check: CO₂ Contribution To Climate Chang
MISLEADING	Claim by Ron DeSantis (R): “We had Floridians that were over there after the attack. He (Biden) left them stranded; they couldn’t get flights out. So I scrambled resources in Florida. I sent planes over to Israel and I brought back over 700 people to safety.” PolitiFact rating: Misleading (This gives the misleading impression that the Biden administration failed to evacuate Americans, but that’s not the case. The federal government offered 6,900 seats by air, land, and sea to Americans in Israel. Through Oct. 31, about 1,500 U.S. citizens and their family members had left Israel via federal government transport.) Fact-checking the third GOP presidential debate in Miami Ron Desantis Rating
BLATANT LIE	Claim via Social Media: The World Economic Forum (WEF) called for artificial intelligence to write a bible and create new religions that the WEF described as “actually correct.” Snopes.com rating: False (they did not) Did WEF Call For an AI-Written Bible to Create New Religions?
FALSE	Claim via Social Media: The FBI warned about coordinated attacks on more than two dozen American cities by Hamas in the aftermath of the militant group’s attack on Israel in October 2023. Lead Stories rating: False (The FBI said it hasn’t “issued such a warning” and lacks “credible intelligence about coordinated attacks” in the United States by Hamas.) Fact Check: FBI Has NOT Warned Of Coordinated Hamas Attacks On US Cities — There’s Nothing ‘Specific And Credible’
FALSE	(International: Israel): Videos show a Palestinian ‘crisis actor’ in critical condition in hospital one day but perfectly fine the next. Australian Associated Press rating: False (The videos feature two different men and were filmed months apart.) Hospital video isn’t proof of Palestinian ‘crisis actors’

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