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
| FALSE | Claim via Social Media: A clean, “15% band” formula perfectly calculates the vote share of 2026 Republican senate candidates by taking 85% of Trump’s 2024 election result.
Lead Stories rating: False (A clearer version of the graph produced by Lead Stories shows only a few states where the number from that calculation matches the actual result within one or two percent, all won by Trump in 2024 and by the Republican candidate in 2026. All the actual results in the other states show variation in both directions, showing much higher or lower numbers than the ones the formula returns.) |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim by Donald Trump (R): His first-term economy was “the greatest economy in the history of our country,” and the current economy is surpassing it.
FactCheck.org rating: False (Real GDP growth peaked at 3% during Trump’s first term, while annual growth exceeded 3% numerous times under earlier presidents. Growth was 2.3% in 2025 and below 3% in the first two quarters of 2026.) |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: Video shows a Trump supporter who was stabbed outside a rally in Chillicothe, Ohio
Lead Stories rating: False (There was no stabbing) |
| MOSTLY FALSE |
Claim by Jon Stewart: U.S. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer “fought tooth and nail against half of these” Democrats who won Senate races.
PolitiFact rating: Mostly False (Schumer initially backed different candidates in Michigan and Maine and did not affirmatively support Peggy Flanagan in Minnesota, but he actively recruited or supported several other successful Democratic candidates, including Roy Cooper, Sherrod Brown and Josh Turek.) Jon Stewart wrong that Chuck Schumer fought half the Democratic Senate winners |
| FALSE | (International: Philippines): International Criminal Court dismisses 57 charges against Rodrigo Duterte.
AFP Fact Check rating: False Posts misrepresent pre-trial decision as ICC dropping charges against Rodrigo Duterte |
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