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: “The cost of coffee has increased by 40 percent since September 2024.”
Gigafact rating: True (The price of 1 pound of ground coffee rose from $6.47 in Sept. 2024 to $9.14 in Sept. 2025 — an increase of about 41%. The surge followed severe droughts in Brazil and Vietnam and was amplified by Trump-era tariffs on major coffee-exporting nations. Prices may fall following the administration’s recent tariff exemptions for coffee products.) Has the cost of coffee increased by 40 percent since September 2024? |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim by Donald Trump (R): “I have just gotten the highest poll numbers of my ‘political career.’”
PolitiFact rating: False (The opposite. Trump’s current approval and disapproval ratings are the worst of his second term and within a few percentage points of his first term’s weakest showing.) |
| FALSE | Claim via Social Media: A photo authentically shows future U.S. first lady Melania Trump, then Melania Knauss, posing partially nude for modeling pictures on the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s airplane.
Snopes rating: False (While the image is real, it was on Trump’s plane and not Epstein’s.) This Melania Trump photo is real, but it wasn’t taken on Epstein’s plane |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: Pete Buttigieg just opened America’s first 100% free homeless hospital.
Lead Stories rating: False (Didn’t Happen) Fact Check: Pete Buttigieg Did NOT Open ‘America’s First 100% Free Homeless Hospital’ |
| FALSE | (International: United Kingdom): The Department for Work and Pensions is increasing the Christmas Bonus this year from £10 to £200.
Full Fact rating: False (The Christmas Bonus will remain £10 in 2025. However, the DWP is offering larger amounts of money as part of other schemes to some people who get certain benefits.) The Christmas Bonus paid to some on benefits isn’t rising from £10 to £200 – Full Fact |
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