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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
| MISLEADING | Claim by Chris Wright (R): The U.S. produces “more oil than we can consume. We’re a net oil exporter.”
PolitiFact rating: Misleading (The U.S. is a net exporter of “crude oil and petroleum products,” but in the narrower measure of crude oil by itself — which is the most important factor in determining gasoline prices — the U.S. is a net importer. The U.S. produces a lot of crude oil, but it’s not clear that the U.S. could meet its consumption needs on its own.) Is the US a net oil exporter? Does it matter for gas prices? |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: Crowd seen behind Trump at Kentucky rally was AI creation, not shown in camera phones.
Lead Stories rating: False (Real People) |
| TRUE | Claim via Social Media: The U.S. Department of Defense spent $93 billion in one month under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
Snopes rating: True (Yes, according to USAspending.gov) |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: Ted Lieu confronted Kash Patel with a secret Epstein recording, saying “Trump told me to bury it.”
Lead Stories rating: False ( During a congressional hearing in September 2025, Lieu confronted Patel with a recording, but it was not a “secret recording”; it was a publicly available interview with journalist Michael Wolff. Patel was neither seen nor heard in the interview, and no one said, “Trump told me to bury it.”) |
| FALSE | (International: Israel): A video shows an AI-generated depiction of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with six fingers on his right hand while speaking about the Iran war, indicating officials sought to hide the fact that he had died during an Iranian missile attack.
Snopes rating: False (No credible evidence suggested Netanyahu was dead, much less that the video in question was AI-generated. The Israeli Government Press Office published the original Netanyahu speech video online on March 12, 2026. Netanyahu’s hands clearly had five fingers each, not six.) Video doesn’t show Netanyahu with 6 fingers per hand, isn’t AI |
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