MBFC's Daily Vetted Fact Checks for 01/30/2025

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

TRUE	Claim via Social Media: There is a tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas. KGW rating: True (There are 67 confirmed cases of tuberculosis in Kansas.) What we know about the tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas
BLATANT LIE	Claim via Social Media: Trump “just reversed all the cost caps Biden negotiated for anyone on Medicare or Medicaid.” FactCheck.org rating: False (Trump’s action didn’t affect the caps on seniors’ drug costs or Medicare price negotiations that Biden signed into law.) Trump Order Didn’t Reverse All of Biden’s Measures to Lower Drug Costs
TRUE	Claim via Social Media: Businesses can prohibit ICE entry into private areas. KHOU rating: True (ICE needs consent or a judicial warrant to search private areas.) Businesses can prohibit ICE entry into private areas
FALSE	Claim via Social Media: Video shows “roads heading to Mexico are jam packed as mass deportations have started.” PolitiFact rating: False (The video was uploaded in December, before President Donald Trump started his second term.) Video doesn’t show roads to Mexico after mass deportations
BLATANT LIE	Claim by slaynews.com: WEF Demands General Public Mass-Vaccinated Twice a Year with mRNA Injections. Lead Stories rating: False (The article failed to offer any sources proving any such “demand” was made by the organization. It cited recordings of a conference panel in which guest speakers talked about potential future developments in medicine that would reduce the frequency at which certain medications needed to be taken to be effective, but none of the speakers talked about mass-vaccination or demanding anything.) Fact Check: Article Does NOT Prove WEF ‘Demanded’ That General Public Get ‘Mass-Vaccinated’ Twice A Year With mRNA Slay News Rating
FALSE	(International: Germany): German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s 90-million-dollar house burned down during the LA wildfires. Logically Facts rating: False Chancellor Scholz’s house did not burn down in LA fires

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