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
| TRUE | Claim via Social Media: U.S. President Donald Trump said, “Nobody knows what a magnet is.”
Snopes rating: True (The president made the comment while discussing how every day products such as vehicles and computers require magnets to operate, and to support his administration’s threat of high tariffs on goods from China — a global leader in rare earth elements, including ones that make magnets. Many social media posts that shared the authentic quote did so without context.) Posts depict real Trump quote: ‘Nobody knows what a magnet is’ |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: A video showing a U.S. Marine pushing President Donald Trump up the steps into the Marine One helicopter is real.
Lead Stories rating: False (AI Satire) |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: Walmart will close its 23 Neighborhood Markets in New York City due to Mamdani taxes.
Lead Stories rating: False (It Has No Stores) |
| TRUE | Claim by Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D): “The five states that are most impacted by a failure to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits are West Virginia, Wyoming, Alaska, Mississippi and Tennessee.”
PolitiFact rating: True (An analysis by the Center for American Progress Action Fund shows those states would experience the steepest premium increases without enhanced ACA subsidies.) Fact-checking claims about ACA subsidies and the government shutdown |
| FALSE | (International: Iran): Iran has lifted the legal requirement for women to wear the hijab.
DigitEye India rating: False (Iran has not repealed hijab mandates and the claims revolve around a suspended enforcement bil. Article 638 of the Islamic Penal Code of Iran still requires women to wear hijabs.) Has Iran lifted the legal requirement for women to wear hijab? Fact Check |
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