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: Authentic photo shows Donald Trump, Jr. at rifle range with scope mounted backwards.
Lead Stories rating: False (Edited Image) Fact Check: Image Of Donald Trump Jr. With Rifle Scope Mounted Backwards Has Been Digitally Edited |
| FALSE | Claim by President Donald Trump (R): If not for a 43-day federal shutdown, growth “would have picked up about a point and a half more” than already “record setting numbers.”
FactCheck.org rating: No Evidence (The article notes the growth figures were not record-setting and does not support the specific “point and a half” counterfactual claim.) |
| TRUE | Claim via Social media: A dog was registered to vote by its owner, who submitted a ballot in the pet’s name in California’s 2021 gubernatorial recall election.
Snopes rating: True (more than once) Did dog illegally vote in California election? Sniffing out the truth |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim by President Donald Trump (R): Foreign producers are paying “at least 80%” of tariff costs.
AP Fact Check rating: False (The Harvard Business School study cited found U.S. consumers bore about 43% of tariff costs, with most of the remainder absorbed by U.S. firms — not foreign exporters.) |
| FALSE | (International: Mexico): Image of a burning plane on the tarmac of an airport is real and related to the violence in Jalisco, Mexico in 2026
Lead Stories rating: False (It was an AI plane fire) |
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