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Each day Media Bias Fact Check selects and publishes fact checks from around the world. We only utilize fact-checkers that are either a signatory of 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
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| FALSE | Claim via Social Media: “Is ANYONE asking how Ron DeSantis was worth $340,000 in 2020 and is now worth $52 million?”
Politifact rating: False (The 52 million was through donations to his campaign and not his personal wealth.) Tweets conflate Ron DeSantis’ massive campaign fundraising with his net worth |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Rumble Video: The SHOCKING Truth: Burning Food Factories, Bird Flu, & Engineered Food Crisis.
Lead Stories rating: False (No Evidence) |
| MOSTLY FALSE |
Claim by Aaron Lieberman (D): “Kari Lake has been appearing at rallies with neo-Nazis,” while “two federal juries have found” Katie Hobbs “guilty of racial discrimination.”
PolitiFact rating: Mostly False (Lake posed for a photo and video at one of her campaign rallies with one man, Greyson Arnold, who is identified in news reports as a Nazi sympathizer. We found nothing else that tied Lake to neo-Nazis. Hobbs participated in the decision to fire an Arizona Senate employee who successfully sued the Arizona Senate for racial discrimination. Hobbs herself was not sued.) Neo-Nazi and racial discrimination claims in AZ governor’s race are Mostly False |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim by J.D. Vance (R): “If you wanted to kill a bunch of MAGA voters in the middle of the heartland, how better than to target them and their kids with this deadly fentanyl? … It does look intentional.”
The Washington Post rating: Four Pinocchios (Fentanyl has been coming into the USA for many years before Joe Biden and has increased each year.) Analysis | J.D. Vance’s claim that Biden is targeting ‘MAGA voters’ with fentanyl |
| MOSTLY FALSE |
Claim by Joe Biden (D): “We produced more oil domestically in my first year in office than my predecessor did in his first year.”
FactCheck.org rating: Mostly False (Cherry Picks – That’s accurate, but the amount of crude oil produced in Biden’s first year was less than the amount produced in 2019 and 2020.) |
| FALSE | (International: Australia): Claim by Gerard Rennick: Australia’s 2021 official death statistics provide evidence COVID-19 vaccines have caused thousands of excess deaths.
Australian Associated Press rating: False (Experts say the excess deaths are around a one percent increase and can be explained by various factors including delayed health treatments during the pandemic, an aging population, and low death rates in 2020. |
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