Media Bias Fact Check selects and publishes fact checks from around the world. We only use fact-checkers who are either signatories to 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
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim by Markwayne Mullin (R): For President Donald Trump, “there’s no financial gain like the past presidents have had. It’s cost him to be in office.”
PolitiFact rating: Pants on Fire (Trump’s financial disclosure showed at least $2.2 billion in revenue in 2025, up from $622 million in 2024, and Forbes estimated his net worth had increased by about $2.7 billion since the 2024 election. Experts told PolitiFact that plausible business or presidential-related expenses would not erase gains of that magnitude.) |
| TRUE | Claim via Social Media: President Donald Trump said he feels “badly” for the seven men accused in the Cornell University sexual assault case because they “won’t get a fair shake.”
Snopes rating: True (Trump was asked about New York Attorney General Letitia James being appointed special prosecutor in the Cornell case and responded, “I feel badly for whoever she’s looking at because they won’t get a fair shake.”) Did Trump say he feels badly for ‘Cornell 7’ because they ‘won’t get a fair shake’? |
| MISLEADING | Claim by Democratic-aligned ads: Specific numbers of rural hospitals could close because of the GOP law’s Medicaid cuts.
FactCheck.org rating: Misleading (The law is likely to financially pressure rural hospitals, but experts said it is impossible to predict exactly how many will close; some cited figures reflect existing financial risk, not direct closure predictions from the law.) |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim by Donald Trump (R): Roy Cooper was “in New York speaking at a New York Times ‘Climate Forward’ event” when Hurricane Helene slammed into North Carolina.
PolitiFact rating: False (Cooper attended the New York Times climate event on Sept. 25, 2024, and returned to North Carolina that same day. Helene’s most damaging wind and rain reached western North Carolina on Sept. 27, when Cooper was in Raleigh.) |
| FALSE | (International: Russia): A viral video shows plague spreading to other parts of Russia following the alleged Irkutsk laboratory incident.
DW Fact Check rating: False (The video was posted about a month earlier and showed Kabardino-Balkaria, roughly 6,000 kilometers from Irkutsk, where plague bacteria had been detected in local squirrels. It was unrelated to the Irkutsk incident.) |
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