MBFC's Daily Vetted Fact Checks for 07/11/2025

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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

MISLEADING	Claim by Joe Rogan: Earth is in a cooling phase, which questions scientific proof behind human-driven global warming AFP Fact Check rating: Misleading (Earth’s geological cooling phases is misleading, and scientists say modern temperatures are rising at an unprecedented rate.) Joe Rogan misleads on ‘climate cooling’ in Bernie Sanders interview Joe Rogan Rating
BLATANT LIE	Claim by Scott Jennings: Almost 5 million able-bodied Medicaid recipients “simply choose not to work” and “spend six hours a day socializing and watching television.” PolitiFact rating: False (A Congressional Budget Office analysis said 4.8 million people who would lose health insurance by 2034 under the Trump-backed bill would be able-bodied adults between 19 and 64 who have no dependents and work less than 80 hours a month. The 10-year projection doesn’t say these people “choose not to work.” Among able-bodied Medicaid recipients who did not work, research found that very few cited a lack of interest in working as the reason. Able-bodied Medicaid recipients are mostly women and people with high school education or less, research showed.) Are 5 million able-bodied Medicaid recipients watching TV all day? That’s unsupported
BLATANT LIE	Claim via Social Media: A Texas City required residents to sign an “Israel loyalty pledge” in order to be eligible to get relief funds after deadly floods in 2025. Lead Stories rating: False (There is no evidence that any Texas town or county impacted by the deadly flooding of July 2025 established any such loyalty pledge. The meme making the claim did not name the city, but it echoed a real attempt by Dickinson, Texas, to require a pledge to not boycott Israel for relief funding in the wake of Hurricane Harvey in 2017. That requirement was retracted after a legal challenge.) Fact Check: Texas City Did NOT Require Residents To Sign ‘Israel Loyalty Pledge’ To Get 2025 Flood Relief Funds
FALSE	(International: United Kingdom): A video of Pfizer CEO, Albert Bourla, shows him saying at the World Economic Forum that a company goal was by 2023 to reduce the number of people in the world by 50%. Full Fact rating: False (This clip has been altered. Mr Bourla was talking about a goal to reduce the number of people who could not afford their medicines by 50%, not about halving the population.) Edited video of Pfizer CEO circulates again online – Full Fact

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