Fact Checking

MBFC’s Daily Vetted Fact Checks for 09/02/2024

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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

MOSTLY FALSE	Claim by Bob Casey (D): “Prices are up because these corporations are scheming to drive them up.” PolitiFact rating: Mostly False (Since 2019, corporate profits have increased faster than inflation. But that doesn’t mean that they caused inflation, or that corporate “scheming” was the primary reason. However, most economists said that rising costs for goods and labor have been inflation’s primary drivers. Studies by Federal Reserve regional banks also cast doubt on the role of corporate greed in driving inflation.) Sen. Bob Casey said ‘prices are up’ because of ‘scheming’ corporations, but many economists disagree
BLATANT LIE	Claim via Social Media: U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris campaigned with the Nazi slogan “Strength Through Joy” during the 2024 presidential election. Snopes rating: False (There is no connection as she has never used this slogan.) Harris Is Not Campaigning with Nazi Slogan ‘Strength Through Joy’
TRUE	Claim via Social Media: Two different photographs authentically show former U.S. President Donald Trump giving a thumbs-up and smiling while posing next to the graves of fallen Marines in Arlington National Cemetery. Snopes rating: True (In the photographs, Trump was standing alongside the fallen Marines’ family members, some of whom were smiling and giving a thumbs-up themselves.) Real Photos of Trump Smiling and Giving Thumbs-Up Over Soldiers’ Graves?
BLATANT LIE	Claim via Social Media: Maxine Waters told her followers on X not to follow Omar Navarro because he is a “Hispanic Republican.” Politifact rating: Pants on Fire (Fake) Maxine Waters didn’t tell people to unfollow her opponent because he is a “Hispanic Republican”
MISLEADING	Claim by Bjorn Lomborg in Wall Street Journal: Despite climate change, the global polar-bear population has increased substantially, the Great Barrier Reef has more coral cover than at any point since 1986, and extreme-heat deaths have declined. Science Feedback rating: Misleading (Simply because a climate change prediction has not become fully visible yet does not mean that the prediction is not happening or that the prediction will not happen in the future. Science shows that polar bears are threatened by disappearing sea ice in a warming Arctic, the Great Barrier Reef is anticipated to have less time to recover between more frequent heat waves and bleaching events, and deaths due to warm weather are anticipated to increase in many parts of the world.) Bjorn Lomborg’s claims about polar bears, coral, and cold deaths ignore scientists’ predictions of climate-change-affected futures
FALSE	(International: Myanmar): Video shows Myanmar military helicopter shot down in Kachin in 2024. AFP Fact Check rating: False Burmese posts share old video with false claim it shows ‘Myanmar military helicopter shot down by rebels’