MBFC's Daily Vetted Fact Checks for 11/03/2025

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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

MOSTLY TRUE	Claim by Ron DeSantis (R): In Florida, “68 to 70% of property tax revenue” is from “second homes, investment properties, commercial properties, Airbnb,” not primary residences. PolitiFact rating: Mostly True (DeSantis’ estimate is close — about 64% of Florida’s property tax revenue comes from non-homesteaded properties, including second homes, rentals, and businesses. Ending property taxes for primary residences could cost local governments around $18.5 billion and potentially force cuts to services or tax hikes elsewhere.) Is DeSantis right that most Florida property tax dollars come from vacation homes, businesses? Ron DeSantis Rating
BLATANT LIE	Claim via Social Media: An authentic video shows a Tesla car charging from a diesel generator that it is towing as it drives. Lead Stories rating: False (Made by AI.) Fact Check: Video Of Tesla Pulling Diesel Motor As It Charges Is NOT Real — AI Made It
TRUE	Claim via Social Media: Former U.S. President Ronald Reagan signed the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, which required emergency rooms to provide emergency health care to anyone, regardless of immigration status, in 1986. Snopes.com rating: True (Under the law Reagan signed, ERs that take Medicare payments — which is most of them — must provide emergency care to anyone, regardless of ability to pay or immigration status. Some social media posts claimed the act guaranteed “health services to all undocumented immigrants,” but the act required only that hospitals provide everyone with emergency health care, not other forms of health services.) Reagan signed law requiring emergency health care for undocumented immigrants. Here’s what it says
MOSTLY FALSE	Claim by Stephen Miller (R): “To all ICE officers, you have federal immunity in the conduct of your duties.” PolitiFact rating: Mostly False (Immigration agents are not immune from prosecution if they break state or federal law. They have limited protections under the Constitution’s supremacy clause when acting within reasonable confines of their duties, but those protections are not absolute. Federal agents have been prosecuted before, and states can pursue cases in certain circumstances.) PolitiFact Fact Check: Do ICE officers have ‘federal immunity’ as White House official Stephen Miller said?
FALSE	(International: Australia ): Robert Irwin has refused to wear a LGBTQI pin at a Sydney Gala and has spoken out against “forced symbolism”. AAP rating: False (Irwin is currently in the United States, not Sydney, and the quotes attributed to him are fabricated.) Claims Robert Irwin refused LGBTQI pin are fake

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