The Latest Fact Checks curated by Media Bias Fact Check 04/26/2024

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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 Greta Neubauer (D): “The GOP has failed to invest in our campuses, making WI fall to 42nd in the nation in state support.” Politifact rating: Mostly True (Wisconsin did rank 42nd for funding its public, four-year universities, according to a national report. An Legislative Fiscal Bureau memo shows Republicans have approved the lowest percentage of state funding since they took control, but that’s part of a long-term decline.) Are Democrats right that Republicans are to blame for low UW System state funding?
BLATANT LIE	Claim via Social Media: Google Images won’t show real photos of satellites because space isn’t real. USA Today rating: False (Yes, flat earthers do exist and surprisingly are growing “around the globe” (MBFC humor). Search returns multiple real photographs of satellites \| Fact check
FALSE	Claim by Donald Trump (R): “Crooked Joe Biden is responsible for banning TikTok.” FactCheck.org rating: False (a TikTok ban enjoys broad bipartisan support in Congress. Trump himself tried to ban TikTok as president through an executive order, but it was blocked by the courts.) Trump’s Partisan Spin on TikTok Donald Trump Rating
TRUE	Claim via Social Media: Joe Biden graduated 76th academically in a class of 85 students at Syracuse University College of Law in 1968. Snopes.com rating: True Biden Graduated 76th in a Class of 85 at Syracuse University College of Law in 1968?
BLATANT LIE	Claim via Social Media: Democrats would lose 20 seats if unauthorized immigrants weren’t counted. KGW rating: False (Democrats wouldn’t lose 20 seats in this hypothetical. From an electoral college standpoint, using the 2020 election results, Biden would have lost an elector in California but gained one in Michigan, and Trump would have lost an elector in Texas but gained one in Ohio. That means omitting unauthorized immigrants from the census would not have had any impact on the most recent presidential election.) What removing immigrants from census would mean for House seats
FALSE	(International: Australia): A Sydney bishop was stabbed in his church after exposing an elite pedophile ring. Australian Associated Press rating: False (The bishop did not expose a pedophile ring.) Fake news site links stabbing to debunked conspiracy

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