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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
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: Transcript of Trump Zelenskyy meeting shows Zelensky talking about real estate deal and burning cities.
Lead Stories rating: False (The fake transcript mentions several phrases that were never said in the real meeting according to actual transcripts. Zelenskyy never said “Our cities are burning”, “You repeated Putin’s lies” or “This isn’t a real estate deal” during the encounter.) |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: Claims Gov. Kathy Hochul is purportedly implementing a $1.00 walking fee for pedestrians in New York City.
Check Your Fact rating: False (The claim is neither referenced on Hochul’s website nor on verified social media accounts.) FACT CHECK: No, Gov. Hochul Is Not Implementing A $1.00 Walking Fee For Pedestrians In New York City |
| TRUE | Claim via Social Media: The administration of former U.S. President Joe Biden created jobs every month and was the first presidential administration to do so.
Snopes rating: True (While government policies can contribute to job creation, and government jobs are counted in the monthly U.S. jobs data report, a presidential administration cannot force the private sector to hire workers, so a large portion of job creation is outside of the government’s control. It is more accurate to say that the economy at large added a certain number of jobs during a presidential administration. Further, 9 million of the jobs created under Biden were part of the recovery that followed the COVID-19 pandemic.) Yes, Biden administration is the only one to have created jobs every month |
| MISLEADING | Claim via Social Media: Media exaggerates the harm of some measles cases while it ignores millions of “vaccine injury reports”
Science Feedback rating: Misleading (Measles is a highly infectious disease caused by a virus. Most cases are relatively mild and resolve in about a week. However, about one in three people develop serious complications that can result in deafness, pneumonia, brain inflammation, and even death. Although any vaccine carries a risk of side effects, rigorous clinical trials ensure that the benefits of vaccines outweigh their known and potential risks. Global immunization efforts have eliminated diseases that, like measles, were common until a few decades ago.) Side effects from vaccination aren’t more dangerous than measles outbreaks |
| FALSE | Claim via Social Media: Trump removed caps on prescription drug prices that Biden ordered.
USA Today rating: False (Trump’s executive orders did not remove drug price caps put in place during Joe Biden’s presidency. There are caps contained in a federal law that cannot be overturned with an executive action.) Medicare drug price caps remain in place despite Trump executive order | Fact check |
| FALSE | (International: France): A video shows Muslims offering public prayers in Paris, France, despite a ban.
Logically Facts rating: False (From Brussels) Video of people offering prayers in Brussels shared as from France |
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