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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: Rand Paul said “Donald Trump is a tyrant” in an April 2025 speech.
Lead Stories rating: False (Paul did not even use the word “tyrant” on that occasion. His single reference to tyranny concerned a broad historical context that predated Trump’s birth by centuries.) |
| FALSE | Claim via Social Media: Says Kevin Hassett, National Economic Council director, said, “Trump is considering a 90-day pause in tariffs for all countries except China.”
PolitiFact rating: False (X accounts significantly exaggerated a noncommittal response from National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett about the possibility of a 90-day tariff pause. CNBC anchors repeated the unconfirmed information and later aired a correction.) Trump official didn’t confirm a tariff pause, but markets rallied amid false headlines |
| TRUE | Claim by Global Affairs Canada: The anti-tariff billboards across the US are paid for by Canada.
WCNC rating: True (Yes, billboards warning about the negative impacts of tariffs really are from the Canadian government.) Canadian government behind anti-tariff billboards in Charlotte, across NC |
| FALSE | Claim via Social Media: Recently declassified CIA files confirmed that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler left Germany for South America after surviving WWII.
Snopes.com rating: False (Old recycled conspiracy) Documents don’t show CIA confirmed Hitler left Germany for South America after WWII |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: There is a “Great Leap Backward” article on Wikipedia about President Trump’s second term.
Lead Stories rating: False (A screenshot of such a page appears to have been created by digitally editing the page for the page about China’s “Great Leap Forward” during Chairman Mao’s rule.) Fact Check: Fake Wikipedia Screenshot Of ‘Great Leap Backward’ Article — No Such Page |
| FALSE | (International: Saudi Arabia): Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman said that women can now choose what to wear without male permission.
The Quint rating: False Saudi Prince Didn’t Say Women Can Dress as They Want ‘Without Male Permission’ |
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You reported this article in your Daily Vetted Facts Check as False. Claim via Social Media: Says Kevin Hassett, National Economic Council director, said, “Trump is considering a 90-day pause in tariffs for all countries except China.”PolitiFact rating: False (X accounts significantly exaggerated a noncommittal response from National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett about the possibility of a 90-day tariff pause. CNBC anchors repeated the unconfirmed information and later aired a correction.)
Trump official didn’t confirm a tariff pause, but markets rallied amid false headlines
AM I wrong or i there a 90 day pause in effect except against China?
The fact check was on whether Hassett said it. He did not. Further, 12 hours before Trump changed his mind he was saying publicly that he won’t back down. He did 12 hours later. However, Hassett did not say that and therefore it is false.