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
| MISLEADING | Claim by Jeff Merkley: Public health academics estimate USAID cuts have killed “over 500,000 children.”
PolitiFact rating: Misleading (A Boston University researcher estimated USAID’s dismantling caused 600,000 deaths overall, with about two-thirds being children; that supports a severe death toll but not clearly “over 500,000 children” from the figures provided.) Fact-checking Marco Rubio at Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: Mark Zuckerberg’s data center in New Mexico “completely drained” the Rio Grande.
Snopes rating: False (Meta’s Los Lunas data center uses large amounts of water, but records do not show that it completely drained the Rio Grande.) Did Mark Zuckerberg’s data center ‘dry up’ Rio Grande? Here’s what records show |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim by Donald Trump (R): The ongoing ballot counting in California means “they’re cheating on the election.”
PolitiFact rating: Pants on Fire (California’s slower ballot counting follows state election law, including processing mail ballots, signature verification, and post-election audits; there is no evidence the counting pace shows cheating.) Trump said the pace of California ballot counting proves a rigged election. Pants on Fire! |
| MOSTLY TRUE |
Claim via Social Media: Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche said forensic ballistics are “not an exact science,” and that “sometimes you find the bullet and sometimes it just disappears.”
Snopes rating: Mostly True (While Blanche did not use this exact phrasing in a single sentence, his full statement conveys the same meaning.) What acting AG Todd Blanche said about bullets after White House correspondents’ dinner shooting |
| FALSE | (International: Philippines): Health secretary Ted Herbosa endorsed MediHope+, a milk powder product, as a form of cancer treatment.
Rappler rating: False FACT CHECK: Health secretary Herbosa did not endorse milk product as cancer cure |
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