Fact Checking

MBFC’s Daily Vetted Fact Checks for 10/04/2024

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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

TRUE	Claim via Social Media: President Biden has authority to intervene in dockworkers’ strike. KGW rating: True (1947 law permits the president to step in on the dockworkers’ strike.) Longshoremen strike: Taft-Hartley Act allows president to step in
FALSE	Claim via Social Media: Claims the USPS has purportedly endorsed VP Harris for president Check Your Fact rating: False (The National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC), a labor union that represents postal walkers, not the USPS, endorsed Harris.) FACT CHECK: Did The USPS Endorse Kamala Harris For President?
BLATANT LIE	Claim via Social Media: A photo authentically shows former U.S. President Donald Trump wearing a life jacket and walking in knee-high floodwater to help storm victims. Snopes.com rating: Fake Fake Photo Shows Trump in Life Jacket Helping Storm Victims in Floodwater
FALSE	Claim by Tim Sheehy (R): U.S. Sen. Jon Tester “voted to give taxpayer-funded health care to illegal immigrants.” PolitiFact rating: False (Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., voted against the amendment, But its passage would not have given “taxpayer-funded health care to illegal immigrants.” Such spending was then, and is now, prohibited under federal law, and changing that would have required passing separate legislation.) In Montana Senate race, Tim Sheehy airs inaccurate illegal immigration attack on Jon Tester
BLATANT LIE	Claim by Donald Trump (R): Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp was calling President Joe Biden after Hurricane Helene but “hasn’t been able to get him.” PolitiFact rating: False (Former President Donald Trump made this claim Sept. 30. But Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp said Sept. 30 that Biden had called him the day before. Kemp missed the call and called Biden back.) Trump’s false claim that Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp couldn’t reach Joe Biden after Hurricane Helene Donald Trump Rating
FALSE	(International: India): A video shows a Muslim rally in Mumbai Logically Facts rating: False Video from Timor-Leste falsely shared as ‘Muslim rally in Mumbai’