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 Donald Trump (R): Rioters in France attacked synagogues and burned church “steeples” as part of religiously motivated violence.
Associated Press rating: False (No houses of worship were directly attacked and authorities established no link between the unrest and religion. A Paris synagogue was damaged in an apparent burglary attempt, while a widely seen burning tower was part of the Limoges town hall, not a church steeple.) FACT FOCUS: Trump and Republicans blame France’s immigrants for riots without evidence |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: Real photos show Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez wearing a revealing bunny costume or an off the shoulder dress.
Lead Stories rating: False (generated with AI) |
| MOSTLY TRUE |
Claim via Social Media: Meta is updating the terms and conditions of its privacy policy to allow it to scrape data to train artificial intelligence models.
Snopes rating: Mostly True (Meta’s updated business terms permit extensive automated collection of website content, potentially including paywalled material, but the policy does not apply to ordinary users, and it remains unclear whether the collected data will be used to train AI models.) What update to Meta’s terms for business accounts says about AI scraping |
| MOSTLY FALSE |
Claim by Club for Growth Action: U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor “repeatedly” violated “a law aimed at stopping members of Congress from insider trading.”
PolitiFact rating: Mostly False (Castor did file two reports in 2017 that disclosed three stock trades late, but the ad’s main example from 2021 was based on an erroneous filing that Castor corrected within days, showing the trades had actually been disclosed on time. PolitiFact found no evidence of insider trading or misuse of confidential information.) PolitiFact Ad misleads on claim that Rep. Kathy Castor violated an insider trading law |
| FALSE | (International: Indonesia): Clip shows rally by ex-Indonesian soldiers calling for Gibran be impeached.
AFP Fact Check rating: False AI-generated video of soldiers marching against Indonesia’s VP misleads online |
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