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
| FALSE | Claim via Social Media: A 2017 local news video from Los Angeles shows second lady Usha Vance with White House Correspondents’ Association dinner shooting suspect Cole Allen.
Snopes rating: False (It is not Usha Vance. It is Arati Desai Wagabaza, the founder and then-CEO of a startup company.) |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: Raw, unedited video shows WHCD suspect running past security at the entrance.
Lead Stories rating: False (AI-Enhanced) |
| MISLEADING | Claim via Social Media: An authentic image shows White House adviser Stephen Miller using his pregnant wife, Katie Miller, as a “human shield” during a shooting at the 2026 White House Correspondents’ Association dinner.
Snopes rating: Misleading (The image is real, but the clips showed that, after the Millers sheltered in place at a ballroom table with a man the White House identified as a U.S. Secret Service agent, the three headed for the exits with Stephen Miller and the agent positioned behind Katie Miller, with their backs facing the location of the suspect, whom officials captured one floor above on the terrace level.) |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: Taylor Lorenz, who was at the White House Correspondents Dinner, called for somebody to “do it” refering to “killing Trump”
Lead Stories rating: False (Lorenz reported on people using that phrase with that meaning in May of 2025. But she was not herself calling for somebody to “do it”, she was only reporting on the meme.) |
| FALSE | (International: Philippines): The Supreme Court has signed an order to detain Ramil Madriaga, Vice President Sara Duterte’s alleged former “bagman.”
Rappler rating: False FACT CHECK: Supreme Court did not order Ramil Madriaga’s detention |
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