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
| MOSTLY FALSE |
Claim by Donald Trump (R): The $454 million bond is “unprecedented, and practically impossible for ANY Company.”
PolitiFact rating: Mostly False (Larger companies have paid for appeals bonds of $1 billion or more, or twice the value of the one former President Donald Trump faces. ) Trump’s $454 million bond for New York fraud case is not unprecedented |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: DNA fragments in COVID-19 vaccines are harmful to humans.
USA Today rating: False (Harmless) COVID-19 vaccines contain harmless DNA fragments | Fact check |
| FALSE | Claim via Social Media: Donald Trump paid off the mortgage of Jonathan Diller, an NYPD police officer who was killed in the line of duty, to support his widow and son.
Snopes rating: False (Donald Trump never claimed to have paid off the mortgage. Diller’s mortgage was paid by the nonprofit organization Tunnel to Towers.) Trump Quietly Paid Mortgage of Slain NYPD Officer Jonathan Diller? |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: Washington state law offers cash for reporting hate speech to 24/7 hotline.
USA Today rating: False (The law makes no mention of paying people who report hate speech. An early version included a clause that would have paid up to $2,000 in damages to victims of hate crimes or bias (not people reporting it), but that provision was removed. The hotline will operate during normal business hours, not “24/7.”) No payments for hate-speech reports in Washington state | Fact check |
| FALSE | Claim by Kristi Noem (R): “Joe Biden banned ‘religious themed’ eggs at the White House’s Easter Egg design contest for kids.”
PolitiFact rating: False (The American Egg Board has set rules for the White House’s Easter-related contests and events since the board was established in 1976.) Claim that Joe Biden banned religious Easter egg designs isn’t all it’s cracked up to be |
| FALSE | (International: India): Viral video shows Delhi Police arresting Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann.
The Quint rating: False No, Viral Video Does Not Show Delhi Police Arresting Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann |
Disclaimer: We are providing links to fact-checks by third-party fact-checkers. If you do not agree with a fact check, please directly contact the source of that fact check.
Do you appreciate our work? Please consider one of the following ways to sustain us.
or
Follow Media Bias Fact Check:
BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/mediabiasfactcheck.bsky.social
Threads: https://www.threads.net/@mediabiasfactcheck
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MBFC_News
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mediabiasfactcheck
Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@mediabiasfactcheck
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mediabiasfactcheck/
The Latest Factual News
[feedzy-rss feeds=”https://newsfactsnetwork.com/feed/, https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/feed/ ” max=”8″ offset=”0″ feed_title=”no” refresh=”0.25_hours” lazy=”yes” title=”250″ meta=”author, date, time, tz=local” summary=”no” summarylength=”300″ thumb=”yes” default=”https://newsfactsnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/news-65343_640.jpg” size=”75″ price=”no” columns=”1″ template=”style1″ ]
