Fact Checking

MBFC’s Daily Vetted Fact Checks for 09/30/2024

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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

NO EVIDENCE	Claim by Donald Trump (R): “We’re going to get the auto workers’ jobs back like it was 30 years ago and 40 years ago. … We were all set to do it, and then we had the COVID disaster come in.” FactCheck.org rating: No Evidence (We can’t predict the future, but auto industry jobs declined between 2019 and 2020, before the pandemic, showing no evidence of a pending boom, as Trump said.) Trump’s Problematic Claims on the Auto Industry Donald Trump Rating
FALSE	Claim by Matt Walsh, Ben Shapiro: There were no hurricanes this season even despite forecasts for a high activity, revealing a problem with climate change ‘theory’; it has been a light hurricane season. Science Feedback rating: Inaccurate (There have been four hurricanes thus far in the 2024 hurricane season – roughly matching the long-term average – and the season does not end until 30 November 2024. Scientists predicted a very active hurricane season that has not yet come to pass; however, this does not in any way invalidate the well-established evidence of climate change. Climate change is determined based on long-term climate trends, while hurricane predictions are short-term and involve uncertainties which climate scientists are well aware of and readily communicate in their studies.) Hurricane predictions aren’t perfect, but that does not ‘invalidate climate change theory’, contrary to Daily Wire claims Ben Shapiro Rating
BLATANT LIE	Claim via Social Media: Image of people boarding up a window shows Michigan election officials are “preparing to steal this election” PolitiFact rating: False (This photo was taken in Tampa, Florida, in 2023, ahead of Hurricane Idalia.) Picture of boarded-up windows is from 2023 Florida storm, not Michigan voting centers
FALSE	Claim by Kamala Harris (D): Vice President Kamala Harris and her campaign claimed multiple times that former President Donald Trump lost 200,000 manufacturing jobs before the COVID-19 pandemic started. Check Your Fact rating: False (Trump’s administration gained over 400,000 manufacturing jobs between January 2017 and February 2020, which was when the pandemic started. It lost around 178,000 manufacturing jobs overall.) FACT CHECK: Kamala Harris Falsely Claims Donald Trump Lost 200,000 Manufacturing Jobs Before Pandemic Started Kamala Harris Rating
BLATANT LIE	Claim via Social Media: In South Philadelphia, people are “getting paid $700 a week to go to wherever Kamala’s campaign tells them to go to.” PolitiFact rating: False (there is no evidence to support this claim.) Kamala Harris isn’t paying people to go to events
FALSE	(International: Lebanon): Videos show people celebrating and grieving Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasallah’s death in an Israeli airstrike on Beirut. The Quint rating: False Fact-Check: No, These Videos Do Not Show People Celebrating or Grieving Hezbollah Leader Hassan Nasrallah’s Death