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 FALSE |
Claim by JD Vance (R): “Some of these (California) reservoirs have been dry for 15, 20 years.”
Politifact rating: Mostly False (The Santa Ynez Reservoir near the Palisades has been shut down for repairs since February 2024. Had the reservoir been full, it would likely have provided more water pressure hydrants in the area. But statewide, experts said there are no major reservoirs that have been dry 15 years or more. Most reservoirs are near or above historic average storage.) Fact-check: Have some California reservoirs been closed for 15 or 20 years? |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: Mark Cuban moved company from Texas to California
USA Today rating: False (Still in Texas. Originated as satire) Satire behind claim Mark Cuban moved company out of Texas | Fact check |
| MISLEADING | Claim by Patrick Moore: It is not too hot now. Temperatures and CO2 are lower now than they have been throughout nearly the entire history of the Earth.
Science Feedback rating: Misleading (Earth’s temperatures and CO2 levels were higher millions of years ago, but modern humans are adapted to cooler, gradual changes. Today’s rapid warming of over 1°C in a century will challenge humans and ecosystems to adapt.) Earth was hotter in the past, but that doesn’t make humans safer from modern climate change |
| FALSE | Claim by Media Research Center: U.S. President Joe Biden mistakenly said “end of quote” which he was not supposed to read off the teleprompter during his farewell address on Jan. 15, 2025.
Snopes rating: False (Official White House video and transcript of his farewell speech, Biden had simply quoted someone else and indicated that he had finished the quote.) Biden Had Another ‘End of Quote’ Moment in Farewell Address — It Wasn’t a Gaffe |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: Vanessa Kerry claimed that billions of people must die for the ‘New World Order’
Check Your Fact rating: False (This was never said) FACT CHECK: Did John Kerry’s Daughter Call for Billions Of Humans To Die For “New World Order’? |
| FALSE | (International: Philippines): US president-elect Donald Trump has invited Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte and her father, former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte, to his inauguration on January 20.
Rappler rating: False (Didn’t happen.) |
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Yes, many times Earth was much hotter and CO2 content in the atmosphere much higher long before humans existed and that means global warming has nothing to do with human activity.
Patrick Moore said exactly this so misleading ar YOU, poor creatures.