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The Latest Fact Checks curated by Media Bias Fact Check 12/27/2023

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Media Bias Fact Check selects and publishes fact checks from around the world. We only utilize fact-checkers who 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

FALSE Claim via Social Media: Tyson Foods may put insect protein in your chicken nuggets.

PolitiFact rating: False (Tyson Foods partnered with Protix, a Netherlands-based company that produces insect ingredients. Tyson bought a minority stake in the company and will build an insect-ingredient factory in the U.S.The products produced there will not be for human food consumption, a Tyson spokesperson said. The insects will be used for animal or plant feed.)

Tyson Foods invests in insects, but not for your chicken nuggets

FALSE Claim via Social Media: Photo shows electric vehicles stranded in recent German winter storm.

USA Today rating: False (The photo shows stranded vehicles in Chicago, not Germany, during a 2011 snowstorm. There is no evidence the vehicles are electric.)

Old photo shows cars stranded in US snowstorm, not German electric vehicles | Fact check

MISLEADING Claim by Ron DeSantis (R): “Biden stranded a lot of American citizens over there who were trying to get home.”

PolitiFact rating: Misleading (the Biden administration also brought Americans home. It offered 6,900 seats to Americans in Israel seeking to depart by air, land or sea. As of Oct. 31, about 1,500 U.S. citizens and their family members had departed using federal government transport.)

Fact-checking Newsom-DeSantis debate: Immigration, abortion, book bans and a poop map

Ron DeSantis Rating

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Claim via Social Media: Greta Thunberg wears a Hamas headband and holds an Islamic State flag in an image that appeared on social media.

Lead Stories rating: False (Altered)

Fact Check: Greta Thunberg Did NOT Wear Hamas Headband, Hold ISIS Flag In Photo

FALSE Claim via Social Media: With Apple’s NameDrop, anyone placing an iPhone near your child’s “will automatically receive their contact information.”

PolitiFact rating: False (Both phones must be unlocked, and each user must choose whether to send or receive information, or both. They must also choose what information to share.)

Can a stranger steal contact info from iPhone? No, that’s not how Apple’s NameDrop works.

FALSE (International: Pakistan): Pakistani leaders Shehbaz Sharif and Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar claim that Dawood Ibrahim was poisoned and is dead

BOOM Fact Check rating: False

Fact Check: Did Pakistani Leaders Tweet About Dawood Ibrahim’s Death? A Fact-Check

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