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: In 2016, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, then a Republican presidential candidate, said, “We’re liable to wake up one morning and Donald, if he were president, would have nuked Denmark.”
Snopes rating: True (Correct Attribution) Yes, Ted Cruz said in 2016 that Trump ‘would have nuked Denmark’ |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: DHS released an image of Jonathan Ross’s arm with an IV tube as evidence that the Ice agent suffered internal bleeding when hit by Renee Good’s car.
Lead Stories rating: False (Satire) |
| MISLEADING | Claim by Ron DeSantis (R): “Florida now has the highest average minimum teacher salary in the southeast region… we have provided… almost $6 billion… to better compensate our teachers.”
PolitiFact rating: Misleading (Starting pay is high relative to the region and the roughly $6B figure is supported, but overall average teacher pay remains low in the region; most increases were directed to minimum starting salaries. Fact-checking Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ final State of the State speech |
| FALSE | Claim via Social Media: “One of ours, all of yours” is a line from Nazi Germany.
Lead Stories rating: False (The phrase, which was displayed on a lectern at a DHS press conference, is not present in historical records of Nazi slogans, nor is it on the website of the Department of Homeland Security. The entire Czech village of Lidice was wiped out by Nazis in 1942, but there is no record of this phrase, in English, German, Czech, or Spanish, being associated with any subsequent Nazi or fascist propaganda.) |
| FALSE | (International: India): Video shows an Indian Air Force transport aircraft carrying five people that crashed in Rourkela, critically injuring the pilot and others nearby.
Boom Live rating: False Charter Plane Crash In Odisha Falsely Shared As IAF Flight | BOOM |
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