Fact Checking
MBFC’s Daily Vetted Fact Checks for 10/14/2024
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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 via Social Media: Kamala Harris visited US southern border for ‘first time’ in September 2024.
USA Today rating: False (Harris’ trip to the U.S. southern border in September 2024 was her second as vice president. She last visited the border in 2021 when she traveled to Texas.) Harris has visited US southern border twice as vice president | Fact check |
| FALSE | Claim by Kari Lake (R): “Arizona was safe” when she moved to the state in 1994, but has become “unsafe.”
PolitiFact rating: False (In Arizona, both violent crime generally and murder specifically have declined by more than 40% since 1994.) Kari Lake says Arizona was safer in 1994, but crime statistics say otherwise |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: Kid Rock donated millions of dollars of supplies to NC; Swift gave nothing.
USA Today rating: False (The opposite is true. Swift gave 5 million, and there is no evidence Kid Rock gave anything.) Post misinforms about Taylor Swift hurricane relief | Fact check |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim by Donald Trump (R): “It has just come out that Democrats in Washington and the Democrat Governor’s Office of North Carolina (Roy Cooper) were blocking people and money from coming into North Carolina.”
PolitiFact rating: Pants on Fire (North Carolina’s Democratic governor, Roy Cooper, said Sept. 29 that 550 members of the state National Guard had deployed, 24 shelters had opened and more than 1,600 state transportation employees and contract crews were working to clear roads. Cooper signed a $273 million Helene relief package Oct. 9 and has also encouraged people to donate to the state’s disaster relief fund. ) Trump said North Carolina Gov. Cooper, Democrats blocked aid. That’s not what their actions show |
| MOSTLY FALSE |
Claim by Kamala Harris (D): “Teachers and nurses and firefighters are paying a higher tax rate than billionaires and the biggest corporations.”
PolitiFact rating: Mostly False (Under current law, the 25 highest-earning billionaires paid a 16% tax rate on average, estimates show, while the top 1% of taxpayers paid an average rate north of 25.6%.More than 91% of households earning from $50,000 to $100,000 a year — the category that includes most teachers, firefighters and nurses — paid effective tax rates of 15% or less, often much less.) Kamala Harris off base on tax rate comparison of billionaires, teachers |
| FALSE | (International: Australia): A United Nations (UN) complex in Australia is linked to Hurricane Milton.
Australian Associated Press rating: False (The ‘UN complex’ is Parliament House in Canberra, and the storm was formed by warm waters, high winds and low pressure in the Atlantic.) Parliament House confused with UN in bizarre Hurricane Milton claim |
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