Media Bias Fact Check selects and publishes fact checks from around the world. We only utilize fact-checkers who 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
| FALSE | Claim via Social Media: Trump plans to defer student loan payments and end payroll tax if reelected.
USA Today rating: False (He did not say that.) No recent announcement by Trump to forgive student loans | Fact check |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: “With the release of the Epstein Docs yesterday and the Iowa Caucus next week we conveniently have a False Flag mass shooting event at High School in Perry, Iowa.”
FactCheck.org rating: False ( No evidence to support this made up conspiracy theory.) |
| FALSE | Claim via Social Media: Natural supplement SightCare restores “perfect 20/20 vision without glasses, contacts or surgery.”
Health Feedback rating: False (No Evidence) |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: Obama encouraged immigrants who are not US citizens to vote.
USA Today rating: False (Obama did not encourage non-citizens to vote. The original video was edited, and his remarks were taken out of context. The interview is from 2016.) Obama did not encourage noncitizen voting in 2016 | Fact check |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: Court documents unsealed in early January 2024 show that U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff visited the island of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein more than 70 times.
Lead Stories rating: False (A search of the court records revealed no mention of Schiff.) Fact Check: Court Documents Do NOT Show Rep. Adam Schiff Visited Epstein Island Over 70 Times |
| FALSE | (International: New Zealand): 11,000 politicians and elites from New Zealand received an exemption for the COVID-19 vaccine.
Australian Associated Press rating: False (The 11,000 figure refers to healthcare workers and the exemptions were temporary.) ‘Elites’ exemption claim is conspiratorial nonsense – Australian Associated Press |
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