Our New Media Bias Visual Scale
Starting today each media source listed on MBFC News has a visual bias scale. We felt that having a quick visual reference would make it…
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Politifact Checks more Trump claims from the last week.
Politifact has been busy checking all the claims made during the Presidential Debate last Monday. This summary consists of Politifact’s latest Trump claims during the…
Fact Check: A Brief Summary of Politifact’s Presidential Debate Research
On September 26, 2016 the first Presidential Debate took place between Republican nominee Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. As usual Politifact covered the…
Experts say Donald Trump’s ‘policies’ dovetail with what Vladimir Putin would like for Russia
Michael Morell said in an open letter to Donald Trump that Donald Trump has outlined “policies that read like a Kremlin wish list.” Politifact…
Trump makes Pants on Fire claim that black communities ‘are absolutely in the worst shape’ ever
In a campaign speech in North Carolina Donald Trump said “Our African-American communities are absolutely in the worst shape they’ve ever been in before. Ever….
Donald Trump says he never called for profiling Muslims
On Monday September 19th, 2016 in a Fox News interview with Bill O’Reilly, Donald Trump said “I never said that Muslims would be subject to profiling…
Fact Check: Harry Reid claims Zika causes Blindness
On September 7, 2016 Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid stated on the Senate floor and also in the press that the Zika Virus leads to…
Trump says in few years, immigrant share of population will break records
Donald Trump said on Wednesday, August 31st, 2016 in a speech in Arizona that “Within just a few years, immigration as a share of national population…
Tim Kaine says millennials agree with Clinton, not Trump, on big issues
9/23/16 On Sunday, September 18th, 2016 Tim Kaine said the following on “Meet the Press.” “Hillary Clinton and millennials have the same positions on climate…
Website Update
9/23/16 Based on the amount media bias to cover, from this point on the website will only cover source checking, articles/news about media bias, and…