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 by Donald Trump (R): The federal government will fix the Reflecting Pool for about “$1.8 million.”
PolitiFact rating: False (The reported cost rose to $13.1 million, and Trump later acknowledged the project could cost less than $20 million.) Fact-checking Trump on Reflecting Pool renovation timeline, cost, contractor relationship |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: Video shows “illegal cutout windows” in Maricopa County ballot envelopes to easily identify Republican ballots for election fraud purposes.
Lead Stories rating: False (The window in the outgoing enveloppes is there so the QR code can be scanned as part of ballot-quality control during primaries. |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim by Donald Trump and Ken Paxton: James Talarico is a vegan.
AFP Fact Check rating: False (Not a vegan. Enjoys barbeque) Paxton, Trump falsely claim Texas Senate candidate Talarico is vegan |
| MOSTLY TRUE |
Claim via Social Media: Bettina Anderson, who married Donald Trump Jr., the eldest son of U.S. President Donald Trump, is the daughter of Jeffrey Epstein’s former banker.
Snopes rating: Mostly True (Anderson is the daughter of Harry Loy Anderson Jr., who owned Palm Beach National Bank and Trust. Records showed that Epstein held several accounts at that bank beginning in 1991. Epstein kept his money at several different financial institutions, and Harry Loy Anderson was Palm Beach National Bank and Trust’s president, so it’s unclear how involved he would have been in Epstein’s finances or to what extent he could be described as “Epstein’s banker.”) Is Donald Trump Jr.’s wife Bettina Anderson the daughter of Epstein’s former banker? |
| FALSE | (International: Australia): Hantavirus shares its name with the Hebrew word ‘hanta’, meaning ‘fraud’ or ‘scam’.
AAP rating: False (Hanta is not a Hebrew word and the virus is named after the Hantan River in South Korea.) |
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