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 via Social Media: Real photo shows Natalie Harp with a blue surgical glove sitting with Donald Trump in a car.
Lead Stories rating: False (It is edited) |
| TRUE | Claim via Social Media: While speaking about the Iran war on Oct. 5, U.S. President Donald Trump said, “They [Iran] can take out a city. Let ’em take out Los Angeles, let ’em take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay and it’s going to be over with very soon.”
Snopes rating: True (He said it. Trump said these words during an unscripted, tangential portion of a speech he gave at a Nebraska political rally. Many people, including high-level Democratic politicians and pundits, appeared to interpret him as saying the destruction of two large California cities would be a small price to pay for ending the war. White House spokesperson Steven Cheung replied on X that, on the contrary, Trump “was clearly stating U.S. cities would have been threatened if a nuclear Iran hadn’t been stopped.”) |
| MISLEADING | Claim by Republican-aligned ads: Democrats voted to “gut rural hospitals” or against “vital funding” for rural hospitals.
FactCheck.org rating: Misleading (Democrats voted against the broader law that included rural health funding, but the same law also included Medicaid cuts that are expected to outweigh the rural health fund’s benefits.) |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim by Donald Trump (R): Brazil’s quick election results prove that places such as Detroit, Philadelphia and California “take weeks to rig” their elections.
PolitiFact rating: Pants on Fire (Brazil and the U.S. use very different election systems. Brazil has nationally standardized electronic voting with no mail-in voting, while U.S. states have different laws governing mail ballots, processing and certification. There is no evidence that slower vote counting in U.S. jurisdictions is evidence of election rigging.) No, Brazil’s fast vote counting is not proof of US election cheating, despite Trump’s claim |
| FALSE | (International: Thailand): UN expert concludes that Thailand must return a village to Cambodia.
AFP Fact Check rating: False UN-appointed expert did not order Thailand to ‘return’ border village to Cambodia |
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