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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: Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, area fires were intentional to build a “smart city.”
PolitiFact rating: False (The wildfires in Horry County, South Carolina, are outside Myrtle Beach city limits, and a woman was arrested for negligently igniting the fire near the area.) Wildfires weren’t deliberately set to make way for Myrtle Beach’s smart city plans |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim by U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins: The U.S. Department of Agriculture canceled a $600,000 grant for a study on menstrual cycles in transgender men.
Snopes.com rating: False (The USDA grant was intended for research on sustainable menstrual hygiene products, not for studying menstrual cycles in transgender men, as confirmed by Southern University and the original project proposal.) Canceled $600K research grant didn’t fund study of menstrual cycles in trans men |
| TRUE | Did he Say it?: Elon Musk, the billionaire adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump, said: “The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy.”
Snopes.com rating: Correct Attribution (Musk’s alleged words from the Joe Rogan show in full read: “The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy.”) Yes, Musk said ‘The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy’ |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: Photo shows first lady Melania Trump crying.
PolitiFact rating: Pants on Fire! (AI generated.) |
| TRUE | Claim via Social Media: President Trump posted a message on Truth Social that contained an image of a pink triangle, a symbol used in Nazi camps to identify homosexual prisoners
Lead Stories rating: True ( The image appeared as the social media preview card when Trump posted a link to a Washington Times opinion piece about military recruitment ads. Over the years the pink triangle has also been symbolically reclaimed by the LGBTQ movement as a liberation and remembrance symbol.) |
| FALSE | (International: India): Video shows US President Donald Trump alleging that the RSS is inciting violence in Arunachal Pradesh using religion.
BOOM Fact Check rating: False Deepfake: Video Of Trump Accusing RSS Of Inciting Riots In Arunachal Pradesh | BOOM |
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