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): Americans now pay “the lowest price anywhere in the world” for prescription drugs.
FactCheck.org rating: False (The administration’s drug-pricing agreements are limited and do not affect most existing drugs for privately insured Americans, while the U.S. still generally pays far more than other wealthy nations for brand-name drugs.) Trump Claims Credit for Drug Price Decline. Experts Say It’s More Complicated. |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: Three white men abducted, sexually assaulted, and held 163 missing children captive in Florida.
Lead Stories rating: False (The three men were charged in cases involving individual victims, not all 163 children recovered during Operation Statewide Shield.) |
| TRUE | Claim via Social Media: During a weather broadcast, meteorologist John Morales said of his ability to predict hurricanes in Florida, “I am not sure I can do that this year because of the cuts, the gutting, the sledgehammer attack on science in general.”
Snopes.com rating: True (Correct Attribution) Did Florida weatherman say he feared he could no longer predict hurricanes because of funding cuts? |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library donated books to children in Israel.
Snopes rating: False (PJ Library, which provides free books to Jewish children including in Israel, was inspired by Parton’s Imagination Library, but the two organizations had no formal partnership and Parton did not donate books or funds to PJ Library or its Israel programs.) Did Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library donate books to children in Israel? |
| FALSE | (International: Nepal): Disaster in Nepalese Himalayas was man-made, caused by HAARP.
AFP Fact Check rating: False (The consensus is human-caused global warming.) Conspiracy theorists falsely blame HAARP for deadly Nepal-Tibet floods |
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