The Latest Fact Checks curated by Media Bias Fact Check 04/22/2024

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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

MOSTLY TRUE	Claim by Joe Biden (D): Starting in 2025 “no matter what your total bills are for prescription drugs,” Medicare Part D users will never pay “more than $2,000 a year, because some of these cancer drugs are 10(,000 to) 15,000 bucks a year.” PolitiFact rating: Mostly True (President Joe Biden signed a law in 2022 that will cap prescription drugs at $2,000 a year by 2025 for people who have the prescription drug benefit, Medicare Part D.) Fact-checking Biden’s statement on prescription costs for Medicare including cancer drugs Joe Biden Rating
BLATANT LIE	Claim via Social Media: claims U.S. Marines recently rescued 11 kidnapped children in Kansas. Check Your Fact rating: False (The claim is false and stems from an April 10 article published by the satire site “Real Raw News.”) FACT CHECK: Did US Marines Rescue 11 Kidnapped Children In Kansas?
FALSE	Claim via Social Media: Mitch McConnell used insider trading to accumulate net worth of $125M. USA Today rating: False (McConnell’s net worth is nowhere near $125 million, according to his publicly available financial disclosures. His net worth spiked in 2008 because of an inheritance gifted to him and his wife, not insider trading.) Mitch McConnell’s net worth nowhere near $125 million \| Fact check
FALSE	Claim via Social Media: Abortion in Arizona is banned right now after an 1864 law was reinstated. KSDK rating: False (Arizona’s near-total abortion ban is not in effect yet.) Arizona 1864 abortion ban law: What we can VERIFY
BLATANT LIE	Claim via Social Media: World Economic Forum founder and chairman Klaus Schwab hospitalized in critical condition on April 15. PolitiFact rating: False (Has not been hospitalized.) World Economic Forum leader Klaus Schwab in good health
FALSE	(International: Netherlands): A factory in the Netherlands uses animal stem cells to create “steaks” using a 3D printer. Australian Associated Press rating: False (The alternative meat company does not use any animal products.) Lab-grown meat claim skewered by simple facts

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