Media Bias Fact Check selects and publishes fact checks from around the world. We only utilize fact-checkers that 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
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim by Donald Trump (R): Social Security databases show “3.5 million people from ages 140 to 149 and money is being paid to many of them.”
PolitiFact rating: False (Recent Social Security Administration data shows that about 89,000 people ages 99 and older receive Social Security payments.) Fact-checking President Donald Trump’s address to joint session of Congress |
| TRUE | Claim by Lavender Magazine: The Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis policy manual has omitted “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” from a rule prohibiting “intelligence activities” targeting someone on the basis of their identity.
Snopes rating: True (Secretary Kristi Noem has removed bans on conducting intelligence activities on people based on their sexual orientation or gender identity.) DHS ends ban on intelligence activities targeting people for sexual orientation, gender identity |
| MOSTLY FALSE |
Claim by Larry Kudlow: Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is “polling very well. It’s very popular.”
Politifact rating: Mostly False (Of seven polls taken since mid-February, one, by Harvard-Harris, found 72% support a government agency focused on efficiency, but the question didn’t specifically ask about DOGE. The Harvard-Harris poll also found 60% saying DOGE “is helping make major cuts,” without asking if respondents supported those cuts.Two other polls found divided opinion on DOGE, and four found DOGE and Elon Musk attracting more opposition than support.) Is Elon Musk’s DOGE ‘very popular’? That’s not what the polls say |
| FALSE | (International: India): Video shows a Hindu youth injecting chemicals in watermelons and selling them during Ramadan.
BOOM Fact Check rating: False Scripted Video Of Man Injecting Chemicals In Watermelon Viral With Communal Claim | BOOM |
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