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: U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said, “If we prosecute everyone in the Epstein files the whole system collapses!”
Snopes rating: False (Fabricated quote) Did Bondi say Epstein files prosecution would cause ‘whole system’ to collapse? |
| FALSE | Claim by Robert F Kennedy Jr: Dr Pollan at Harvard has cured schizophrenia using keto diets.
AFP Fact Check rating: False (Dangerous pseudoscience, as the author of the study never said “cure.”) RFK Jr overstates early evidence ketogenic diet treats schizophrenia |
| MISLEADING | Claim via Social Media: Obama and Trump had similar records on ICE deaths and deportations, and Obama oversaw comparable enforcement.
DW Fact Check rating: Misleading (ICE detention deaths total 67 under Obama versus at least 83 so far under Trump, with a sharper rise in Trump’s second term. While Obama deported more people overall, about 3.1 million compared to roughly 932,000 in Trump’s first term, Trump has carried out significantly more interior deportations and expanded enforcement tactics. The two administrations differed substantially in policy focus and approach.) |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: In the Epstein files, document DOJ-2024-EF-7721 exists, and it is about medbeds and something called “medbirth”.
Lead Stories rating: False (This Doc does not exist.) |
| FALSE | (International: New Zealand): Only 33 per cent of births in New Zealand in 2023 were NZ European.
AAP rating: False (In that year, 60 percent of those born were registered as European.) |
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