The Latest Fact Checks curated by Media Bias Fact Check 04/18/2024

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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 Lisa Subeck (D): “The United States is an outlier, one of only about half a dozen countries, without any guarantee of paid leave for new parents and/or other health care needs.” Politifact rating: True (The U.S. requires 12 weeks of unpaid leave a year for parents of newborn or newly adopted children if the parents work for a company with 50 or more employees. The U.S. is an outlier on paid maternity and parental leave, joining a handful other smaller countries on that list.) It’s true: The U.S. is an outlier on paid parental leave
BLATANT LIE	Claim by Kari Lake and Donald Trump (R): Judge ordered Trump can’t attend Barron Trump’s graduation. 10TV rating: False (The judge didn’t rule on Trump’s request to attend the graduation.) Trump hush money trial: Judge didn’t rule on graduation request \| 10tv.com Donald Trump Rating
FALSE	Claim via Social Media: Donald Trump violated the Logan Act by resharing 2018 Iran tweet on Truth Social. PolitiFact rating: False (Former President Donald Trump sharing an old social media post of his in which he threatened Iran’s leader doesn’t rise to a violation of the law.) Trump didn’t violate law sharing old Iran post, experts say
FALSE	Claim by KunstlerCast: COVID-19 vaccines will cause a “massive tsunami” of COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths due to immune escape; Immune “dysregulation” in vaccinated people is turning COVID-19 into “a more chronic disease that we call long COVID” Health Feedback rating: Unsupported (Both vaccine- and infection-induced immunity exert selective pressure that drives viral evolution. However, no evidence indicates that COVID-19 vaccines are major drivers in the evolution of new SARS-CoV-2 variants nor that they will lead to more dangerous variants.) Virologist Geert Vanden Bossche makes unsupported prediction that mass COVID-19 vaccination will cause an immune “collapse”
BLATANT LIE	Claim via Social Media: YouTube has declared it has a moral responsibility to rig the upcoming US election for incumbent president Joe Biden. Australian Associated Press rating: False (YouTube has made no such statement and the claim originates from a headline on a conspiracy website.) Election rigging pledge claim is conspiratorial fantasy – Australian Associated Press
FALSE	(International: New Zealand): New Zealand PM backs forex trading platform AFP Fact Check rating: False Manipulated media of New Zealand PM used to promote fake ‘forex trading’ firm

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