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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: A video authentically shows a lightning strike during a nuclear blast at an Iranian nuclear facility during a U.S. bombing attack on June 22, 2025.
Lead Stories rating: False (Could be AI or real, but the same video was shared online at least two days before the U.S. attack on three nuclear facilities in Iran. The video also shows a daytime scene near a city, while the American bombings happened at night and far away from any urban areas.) |
| MOSTLY FALSE |
Claim by Rick Scott (R): Four million more people live in Florida, but New York gets $20 billion more for Medicaid, because it covers illegal immigrants and adults without chronic illness.
Politifact rating: Mostly False (New York uses state funds, not federal funds, to cover a small group of undocumented immigrants. Some states, including New York, expanded coverage to select adults through a provision of the Affordable Care Act, and uses federal matching funds for this group. New York received nearly $40 billion more than Florida in federal matching funds for Medicaid in 2023.) Federal funds are not used to enroll undocumented immigrants in Medicaid in New York |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: U.S. President Donald Trump officially warned former U.S. President Barack Obama to stay out of America’s foreign affairs or else face charges for violating the Hatch Act.
Snopes rating: False (Originated as Satire) Rumors that Trump threatened Obama with Hatch Act originated as satire |
| FALSE | (International: Australia): The sole Air India crash survivor has been arrested.
AAP rating: False (The survivor has not been arrested.) False Air India crash claim spreading among Fijian Facebook accounts |
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Glad to have the platform to review and essentially study Socialology, too damn bad AI garbage is flooding tie site just to generate clicks, sigh…
If you need help screening for AI crap then please post a page-top-banner or similar and thousands of us home-boud and often bed-ridden Seniors wold be glad to share our Life Experience to help younger or less experience folks make decisions and avoid pitfalls. For instance, as fubar as the USA is now and has been for decades, the protesting mental juveniles must be forced tro comprehend that the otehr countries are worse, much worse, often EXPONENTIALLY so.
Just look at the sad child Thunberg and what a pathetically confused and misguided Useful Idiot she was groomed to be by her own mentally twisted and immature parents.
Therfore, I hereby proclaim global ‘Kudos For Reddit” 🙂