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: Pope Francis donated a “popemobile,” one of the vehicles the late pope used for transportation, to a Catholic relief organization to convert the vehicle into a mobile health unit for children in Gaza.
Snopes rating: True (Yes, he did) Pope Francis donated a popemobile to children of Palestine in a final act |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim by Donald Trump (R): The U.S. subsidizes Canada with subsidies of about $200 billion per year.
AP News rating: False (According to the White House, the number is based on the U.S. trade deficit with Canada and higher military spending by the U.S., including expenditures associated with the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD. An exact total is difficult to discern because there is no publicly available data on NORAD spending. But even the most generous estimates do not put the total costs anywhere close to what Trump claims.) |
| MOSTLY FALSE |
Claim by Brian Tyler Cohen: Trump “just denied North Carolina’s request for FEMA relief from Hurricane Helene.”
PolitiFact rating: Mostly False (The claim omits that FEMA continues to cover 90% of recovery costs.) Claim about Trump rejecting Helene relief for North Carolina lacks context |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Tex., “Go back to Africa.”
Snopes rating: False (She never said this.) Karoline Leavitt didn’t say ‘Go back to Africa’ to US Rep. Jasmine Crockett |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: The U.S. FDA has approved ivermectin as a treatment for COVID-19.
Logically Facts rating: False (No changes. They have not.) No, FDA hasn’t approved Ivermectin for treatment of COVID-19 |
| FALSE | (International: Philippines): Kitty Duterte says that under her father Rodrigo Duterte’s presidency, young people could go out and come home safely, implying the streets were safer then.
VERA Files rating: False FACT CHECK: Kitty falsely claims children ‘could go out and come home safely’ during Duterte admin |
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