MBFC's Daily Vetted Fact Checks for 11/28/2024

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 via Social Media: An Italian village is offering $1 homes to Americans following the election. KGW rating: Mostly True (Ollolai, a village on the island of Sardinia in Italy, is courting American homebuyers following the presidential election by offering them homes for as little as $1. Ollolai and other Italian villages have made similar offers to people around the globe for several years. However, the cheapest homes available require renovations that will push the cost of the home much higher than just a dollar.) Yes, an Italian village is offering $1 homes to Americans following the election
FALSE	Claim via Social Media: ICE data shows 425K convicted criminals entered US under Biden and Harris. USA Today rating: False (The ICE data referenced in the posts represents people who entered the U.S. over the last 40 years or longer, not just during the Biden-Harris administration. Most of them were convicted before Biden’s presidency.) Post misinterprets ICE data on convicted criminals \| Fact check
BLATANT LIE	Claim via Social Media: “Donald Trump has officially banned” same-sex marriage “in all 50 states in America.” PolitiFact rating: Pants on Fire (President-elect Donald Trump has not banned same-sex marriage in the U.S. Trump has not taken office yet, and even if he had, he wouldn’t have unilateral power to ban same-sex marriage.) Donald Trump has not banned same sex marriage in the U.S.
MISLEADING	Claim by Republicans against Trump (X user), Dr. Eric Feigl: RFK Jr. says heroin helped him reach top of his class. Newsweek rating: Misleading (While Kennedy did boast that heroin helped him improve his grades, the clip was taken from a podcast in which he discussed the damage his former drug addiction had caused him and why he began taking drugs. Kennedy said on the show that while it worked “really great in the beginning,” it later exacted a cost that got “worse and worse” that “hollows out your whole life.”) Fact Check: RFK Jr. Says Heroin Helped Him Reach Top of His Class
BLATANT LIE	Claim via Social Media: Taylor Swift said Musk is the first man to be radicalized by own algorithm. Lead Stories rating: False (A psychology professor at the University of Cambridge claimed credit for the quote after it went viral in mid-November 2024.) Fact Check: Taylor Swift Did NOT Say Elon Musk Is ‘First Person In History, To Be Radicalized By His Own Algorithm’
FALSE	(International: Australia): Indigenous people wiped out a pygmy population that existed in Australia before them. Australian Associated Press rating: False (Extensive evidence shows Indigenous people were the only people to settle on the Australian landmass prior to the arrival of the British.) Indigenous people did not wipe out pygmy population in Australia

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