[ad_1] Claim: “The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg was voted the “most hated person in Hollywood” by her peers. Rating: On Aug. 28, 2023, a user managing...
[ad_1] Claim: Fani Willis, the District Attorney of Fulton County, Georgia, was indicted in August 2023 after her office brought charges against former U.S. President Donald...
[ad_1] Claim: As of late August 2023, a cat in Szczecin, Poland, was among the city’s top-rated tourist attractions on Google Maps. Rating: Context While the...
[ad_1] As details unfolded about an Aug. 28 fatal shooting on the University of North Carolina’s Chapel Hill campus, social media users shared an image that...
[ad_1] Wildfires that ignited across Maui County, Hawaii, have killed at least 115 people — making the fires the deadliest the United States has seen in...
[ad_1] A social media post took video footage from a 2022 World Economic Forum press conference out of context to misleadingly suggest the speaker had proposed...
[ad_1] As wildfires have burned around the globe, social media posts claimed they were set to make room for “smart cities.” We rated False “smart cities”...
[ad_1] Did the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently suggest that people who are unvaccinated against COVID-19 will fare better against the new variant than...
[ad_1] As intense media coverage of former President Donald Trump’s legal problems proves, the looming criminal trials of a current or former commander in chief is...
[ad_1] Claim: Video shot in late August 2023 showed the first signs of Hurricane Idalia. Rating: In August 2023, claims began to spread on social media...
[ad_1] El huracán Hilary de categoría 4 pasó por México el 19 de agosto y se convirtió en tormenta tropical a su llegada al sur de...
[ad_1] 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...
[ad_1] Home Bias Check Posted By: Media Bias Fact Check These sources have minimal bias and use very few loaded words (wording that attempts to...
[ad_1] Claim: Disney World tickets may soon be free due to Disney World’s potential shift to non-profit status. Rating: On Aug. 25, 2023, the website MouseTrap...
[ad_1] Social media users are sharing an image of a man dragging multiple purses and other goods through automated sliding doors in connection with a California...
[ad_1] An Aug. 28 Facebook post reported some parents’ worst fear — a school shooting — as reality. “Shots fired T.L Hanna High School 1 seriously...
[ad_1] For months, a purported warning has spread on social media about an alleged “new COVID-Omicron XBB variant” — a new strain of the coronavirus that has...
[ad_1] An Instagram video made an unsubstantiated claim about women vaccinated against COVID-19. “I would not marry a woman who got the COVID-19 vaccine because there’s...
[ad_1] Our article about the first Republican debate of the 2024 election was the basis for this fact-checking video segment produced by Hearst Television — one...
[ad_1] Claim: A video that went viral in August 2023 authentically depicted a giant carpet python crawling from a house roof to trees in an Australian...