The Latest Fact Checks curated by Media Bias Fact Check 11/22/2023

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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

MOSTLY FALSE	Claim by Dean Phillips (D): “Half of American high school students are not familiar with the Holocaust.” PolitiFact rating: Mostly False (Recent polls show that well more than half of younger Americans broadly understand that the Holocaust occurred.) How familiar are US students with the Holocaust? Checking Dean Phillips’ claim Dean Phillips Rating
BLATANT LIE	Claim via Social Media: The national debt was paid in 2017. USA Today rating: False (Nonsense. It is 33 trillion.) National debt exceeds $33 trillion; claim it was paid off in 2017 is baseless \| Fact check
TRUE	Claim via Social Media: U.S. Rep. George Santos claimed he had never heard of OnlyFans in an interview with Fox Business Network host Kennedy in March 2023, when an investigation found just months prior he had used campaign funds to make purchases on the platform. Snopes.com rating: True (Correct Attribution. George Santos lied.) Did George Santos Claim He Never Heard of OnlyFans, Months After Allegedly Making Purchases There?
BLATANT LIE	Claim by Viral image: Video shows President Joe Biden falling “on the plane stairs shortly after landing in Poland.” PolitiFact rating: False (This video doesn’t show President Joe Biden.) Video doesn’t show President Joe Biden falling down plane stairs in Poland
FALSE	Claim via Social Media: Video shows protesters breaking into a Washington, D.C. house on Oct. 28. USA Today rating: False (The video shows a June 2020 protest in Washington, D.C. after the murder of George Floyd. The resident of the home invited protesters inside to avoid the police. They did not break in.) False claim video shows protesters entering DC home in 2023 \| Fact check
FALSE	(International: Iran): Iran has completed 80% of its development of five nuclear weapons. Rappler rating: False FACT CHECK: No proof Iran is currently producing nuclear weapons

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