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MBFC’s Daily Vetted Fact Checks for 05/29/2024
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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 by Alex Jones: “All of the satellite weather data for the day of the Iranian president’s crash has been removed.”
Politifact rating: False (Iran weather data from an online tool operated out of Colorado State University did not update on May 19, the day that Iranian President Ebraham Raisi died from a helicopter crash because of a hard disk drive error, a spokesperson from the organization said. The tool receives its Iran weather data from the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, where online weather data was available without interruption May 19.) No, weather data did not vanish on the day of Iran helicopter crash. That claim is False. |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: Idaho is banning all pronouns in schools starting July 1.
USA Today rating: False (The claim mischaracterizes Idaho’s HB 538, which prohibits the government from forcing its employees to use a person’s preferred pronouns if they don’t align with their biological sex. It also says public school teachers cannot use a name or pronouns other than the ones assigned to a student at birth without written parental consent. It does not fully ban pronouns.) False claim Idaho schools are banning all pronouns | Fact check |
| FALSE | Claim via Social Media: Joe Biden said, “I marched a lot of UAW picket lines when I was a Senator since 1973. But I tell you what— first time I’ve ever done it in person”
Lead Stories rating: False (He was misquoted. He said: “I marched a lot of UAW picket lines when I was a senator since 1973. But I tell you what — first time I’ve ever done it as the president.”) |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim by the People’s Voice: Heart Assoc. said 90% of vaccinated population has ‘deadly heart defects’
USA Today rating: False (The organization did not make any announcement tying the findings to vaccines, and COVID-19 vaccines hadn’t yet been released during the time period examined by the study.) Cardiovascular research findings unrelated to vaccines | Fact check |
| TRUE | Claim by Joe Biden (D): “Violent crime is near a record 50-year low.”
Politifact rating: True (Preliminary estimates for 2023 show the violent crime rate continuing to fall. If that is replicated in the final FBI data, 2023 will become the lowest year for the violent crime rate in 50 years.) Joe Biden is correct that violent crime is near a 50-year low |
| FALSE | (International: United Kingdom): The Scottish government has declared the words ‘mother’ and ‘father’ are hate speech.
Australian Associated Press rating: False (The government has made no such declaration.) |
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