MBFC's Daily Vetted Fact Checks for 07/19/2024

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 TRUE	Claim by Kamala Harris (D): “Unlike Mike Pence, (J.D.) Vance said he would have carried out Trump’s plan to overturn the 2020 election.” PolitiFact rating: Mostly True (Vance has said in interviews that the election was “stolen” from Trump. J.D. Vance told ABC News in February 2024 that if he had been vice president in 2020, he would have told states, “we needed to have multiple slates of electors, which was part of what Trump and his allies wanted to do.”) Fact-checking Kamala Harris’ claim that J.D. Vance said he would have overturned the 2020 election
BLATANT LIE	Claim via Social Media: “Why are the secret service smiling?” in photo after attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. FactCheck.org rating: False (Altered) Posts Use Altered Image of Secret Service Agents Following Trump Shooting
MISLEADING	Claim by Joe Biden (D): Sen. JD Vance “says there’s no climate change happening.” FactCheck.org rating: Misleading (Vance acknowledged in November 2022 that “climate change is certainly happening,” which was a few months after he said there was no “climate crisis” and questioned how much humans contribute to the changing climate.) FactChecking Biden’s NBC News Interview Joe Biden Rating
BLATANT LIE	Claim by Marjorie Taylor Greene (R): “Hundreds of thousands of American-born workers lost their jobs these past few years” under Democrats. FactCheck.org rating: False (Employment for the U.S.-born population is 586,000 above the pre-pandemic peak in February 2020.) Republican National Convention, Opening Night
TRUE	Claim via Social Media: Project 2025 would eliminate the Head Start program. KHOU rating: True (The proposal to eliminate the Head Start program is in the chapter about the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). That chapter explicitly calls for the elimination of the Head Start program because the author claims it’s “fraught with scandal and abuse.”) Project 2025 cuts Head Start, reduces free school lunches Learn more about P2025
FALSE	(International: United Kingdom): A group of Muslim boys beat up a traffic warden after the Labour Party won the UK elections, this year. The Quint rating: False Fact-Check: 2018 Video of Group of Men Beating Traffic Warden in UK Shared as Recent

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