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
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: Email from the Epstein Files discusses “nuclear” investment opportunity related to “ww3” on Feb 8, 2026
Lead Stories rating: False (No Such Email) |
| TRUE | Claim via Social Media: Emails written by the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein claimed he provided Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates drugs for an STD in order “to deal with consequences of sex with Russian girls.”
Snopes.com rating: True (This is in the files) Epstein emails claimed Bill Gates got STD after ‘sex with Russian girls’ |
| MISLEADING | Claim by Donald Trump (R): “[I]n one year I’ve slashed our gaping trade deficit by a staggering 77%.”
FactCheck.org rating: Misleading (Through President Donald Trump’s first full 10 months in office, the cumulative U.S. trade deficit in goods and services was down 3.9% from the same period in 2024. His claim that he has “slashed our trade deficit by 77%” appears to compare the monthly trade deficit in January 2025 to the deficit nine months later in October.) Trump’s Selective Comparison Overstates Trade Deficit Decline |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: The Epstein Files contain an email discussing Satoshi being a pseudonym managed by Epstein and Maxwell and saying Bitcoin is their little digital goldmine.
Lead Stories rating: False (Not In Files) |
| FALSE | (International: India): Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that there is no poverty in the country and that people are pretending to be poor.
The Quint rating: False Did FM Nirmala Sitharaman Say There Is No Poverty in the Country? No! |
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