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Claim Codes: Red= Fact Check on a Right Claim, Blue = Fact Check on a Left Claim, Black = Not Political/Conspiracy/Pseudoscience/Other
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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 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 by Kamala Harris (D): Black women in the U.S. are “three to four times more likely to die in connection with childbirth than other women.”
Politifact rating: True (The latest data shows that Black women in the U.S. have a maternal mortality rate of 49.5 for every 100,000 live births — nearly three times higher than their non-Hispanic white counterparts.)
Claim via Social Media: Project 2025 eliminates overtime pay.
KGW rating: False (Project 2025 does not call for eliminating overtime pay. Instead, it does advocate for overtime pay adjustments and calls on Congress to amend the federal overtime rules. Critics say the proposed recommendations could potentially roll back worker protections and make it easier for companies to avoid paying as much money in overtime wages. Still, the document’s language does not suggest the elimination of overtime.)
(International: Philippines): To appease China, the Philippines will return a missile system deployed by the US last April as part of military drills between Filipino and US troops.
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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: Video authentically shows Trump shaking hands with the head of the Project 2025’s parent group — Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts.
Claim by America’s Frontline Doctors:“SPIKE PROTEINS FROM COVID SHOTS COULD PROMOTE CANCER GROWTH”
Health Feedback rating: Unsupported (The claim relies on a study that used cells grown in the laboratory to produce the spike protein from the SARS-CoV-2 virus. These experimental conditions don’t reflect what happens with the COVID-19 vaccine in the human body. Therefore, the results from this study can’t be extrapolated to people who received a COVID-19 vaccine.)
Claim via Social Media: Project 2025 proposes eliminating Social Security benefits.
10TV rating: False (Project 2025 does not include any proposals to eliminate Social Security benefits altogether, according to the text of the plan and the organization that created it. But the Heritage Foundation has proposed changes to the program, such as raising the retirement age, and one of the Project 2025 co-authors has advocated for privatizing Social Security in the past.)
Claim via Social Media: Former U.S. President Donald Trump’s name is listed 312 times in Project 2025’s policy document.
Snopes.com rating: Mostly True (The word Trump does appear 312 times; however, in two instances, “trump” does not refer to the former president: Once it was used as a verb (“to trump”) and in another instance as an adjective (“trumped-up”). Additionally, 158 mentions refer to the Trump administration rather than to Trump himself.)
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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
BLATANT LIE
Claim via Social Media: Julian Assange said WikiLeaks has evidence that Barack Obama operated a child sex abuse ring at the White House.
Claim by Occupy Democrats: The CEOs of CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC and The New York Times, as well as the owners of The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal, have all donated to former U.S. President Donald Trump’s campaigns.
Snopes.com rating: False (No records of these donations. Occupy Democrats removed the meme within 24 hours.)
(International: Australia): Australia’s biggest bank has told customers to adopt central bank digital currency (CBDC) or “lose everything.”
Australian Associated Press rating: False (Macquarie Bank (which is not the country’s biggest) has made no such statement. Australia does not have a CBDC.)
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Fact Checker bias rating Codes: Red = Right-Leaning, Green = Least Biased, Blue = Left-Leaning, Black = Unrated by MBFC
FALSE
Claim via Social Media: In June 2024, NASA warned there is a 72% chance an asteroid will hit Earth on July 12, 2038.
Snopes rating: False (There aren’t any known significant asteroid threats to Earth in the foreseeable future.)
Claim via Social Media: An old Christmas picture of Michelle Obama with cropped hair and masculine features standing with her future husband, Barack Obama, is an authentic photograph of the future first lady.
Claim via Social Media: 2019 CDC job post, 2013 law highlighted by FDA prove pandemic was planned.
USA Today rating: False (These posts are routine, not evidence the COVID-19 pandemic was planned. The job listing was a standard posting for staff long used at ports of entry around the country, while the FDA post highlighted the reauthorization of a law that allows it to be prepared for a possible disease outbreak.)
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FALSE
Claim via Social Media: The Red Cross does not accept plasma donations from people who have had the COVID vaccine.
Australian Associated Press rating: False (American, Australian and New Zealand blood donation organisations all say there are no restrictions on donating plasma if you’re vaccinated.)
Claim by Donald Trump (R): Former Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam “stated he would execute a baby after birth.”
Snopes rating: False (Northam didn’t say he supported executing or killing babies during the interview. He instead described scenarios where a third-trimester abortion would occur and stressed that he didn’t believe it’s a decision the government should be involved in.)
Claim by Joe Biden: Former President Donald Trump told the public to inject bleach as a treatment for COVID-19.
Factcheck.org rating: False (Biden is twisting the words of Trump, who never told the public to “put bleach” in their bodies. During an April 2020 press briefing at the White House, Trump suggested that scientists at the Department of Homeland Security test the use of “very powerful light” and “disinfectant” in the body to kill the virus that causes COVID-19. He did not tell Americans to try it themselves. )
(International: United Kingdom): The rising number of breast cancer cases in women under 45 years of age is linked to Covid-19 vaccines.
Full Fact rating: False (Breast cancer cases have been increasing worldwide and this is thought to be due to increasing excess weight and reproductive trends. There is no evidence that Covid vaccines cause cancer.)
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TRUE
Claim by Joe Biden (D): U.S. President Joe Biden claimed in June 2024 that the U.S. trade deficit with China had reached its lowest level since 2010.
Snopes rating: True ( In 2010, the U.S. had bought $273 billion worth of goods more than it sold to China — the world’s manufacturing leader. This trade deficit soared under Trump at $418 billion. While it rose in 2021 and 2022 as the world caught up on trade after the COVID-19 pandemic, it dropped again in 2023 to $279 billion.)
Claim via Social Media: Video shows human trafficking victims in back of truck in Atlanta.
USA Today rating: False (The Gwinnett County Police Department said it pulled over the vehicle in the video and that the occupants were families moving from Alabama to Maryland. There was no evidence of trafficking, and the driver was ticketed for passengers not wearing a seatbelt.)
Claim by RFK. JR (I): Border Patrol agents take migrants “to the Yuma airport, put them on a plane to any destination they want. … And they pay their ticket. And then they get reimbursement from FEMA.”
Politifact rating: False (Migrants must pay for their own flights or transportation after they’ve been released from U.S. Border Patrol custody. The Federal Emergency Management Agency reimburses some nonprofits that help migrants pay for their travel. But that is unrelated to Border Patrol.)
Claim by Natural News: claims the Gates Foundation purportedly awarded $9.5 million to UW-Madison to make the H5N1 bird flu transmissible to humans
Check Your Fact rating: False (The claim is false and originally stems from a June 17 article published on “Natural News,” a website that is known for promoting “disinformation.”)
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FALSE
Claim by Brigitte Gabriel: “For 18 months under President Trump, not a single American was harmed in Afghanistan.”
PolitiFact rating: False (There were three service members wounded in combat and four troops who died in noncombat-related deaths during the Trump administration after the deal with the Taliban was reached.)
Claim via Social Media: “74% of sudden deaths are shown to be due to the COVID-19 vaccine.”
FactCheck.org rating: False (From an unpublished paper authored by several physicians known for spreading COVID-19 misinformation. There is no evidence to support the claim.)
Claim via Social Media: C-sections are coded as abortions in hospitals.
PolitiFact rating: False (C-sections have their own procedural codes for tracking and insurance that cover this type of delivery. These codes do not mention abortion. C-sections can be risky and are not typically used to facilitate abortions.)
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FALSE
Claim by Donald Trump (R): Undocumented immigrants are eligible for Social Security, Medicare.
10TV rating: False (Undocumented immigrants not eligible for Social Security, Medicare.)
Claim by Juneau County Republicans: “Planes full of unvetted ‘refugees’ are being accepted at the Milw. & Madison airports!”
Politifact rating: Pants on Fire (Migrants, asylum seekers or other kinds of immigrants have not been transported en masse to Wisconsin cities. Further, the federal government flies refugees to the U.S. for resettlement on commercial planes. They are highly vetted and arrive legally.)
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TRUE
Claim via Social Media: Babies under six months shouldn’t drink water as it can result in health risks
Health Feedback rating: Correct (Babies under the age of six months receive adequate hydration and nutrition through breast milk or formula. They don’t need to drink water, and doing so can in fact lead to health complications such as electrolyte and nutritional imbalances.)
Claim by Viral Image: An image shared on Facebook claims to show a United States weapons shipment to the Philippines after a recent incident in the West Philippine Sea with China.
Check Your Fact rating: False (The image shows U.S. humanitarian aid to Ukraine, not the Philippines.)
Claim via Social Media: Schools stopped teaching students how to write in cursive because AI tools cannot read it.
Snopes rating: False (24 states have laws requiring students to learn cursive. Meanwhile, there are plenty of tools that can read cursive handwriting with relatively high accuracy, not all of which rely on artificial intelligence.)
Claim by slaynews.com: Bill Gates Launches ‘Maggot Milk’ to Feed General Public
Lead Stories rating: False (Although EntoMilk, made from insects, was an actual product that existed in South Africa in 2019, Gates was not a part of its release.)
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TRUE
Claim via Social Media: The general election in the U.S. on Nov. 2, 2024, will mark exactly 20 years since a candidate for the Republican Party won the popular vote in a presidential election.
Snopes rating: True (In 2004, Republican incumbent George W. Bush tallied 62,040,610 individual votes against Democratic Sen. John Kerry’s 59,028,444. That year, Americans held Election Day on Nov. 2, meaning Nov. 2, 2024, will mark exactly 20 years since the last time Republicans won the popular vote.)
Claim by Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D): Donald Trump lowered taxes on billionaires and raised them on everyone else.
10TV rating: False (According to the Tax Foundation, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which went into effect in 2018, reduced average tax rates for taxpayers at all income levels because it lowered marginal tax rates, widened tax brackets, and doubled the child tax credit.)
Claim via Social Media: Video shows CNN’s Dana Bash telling Joe Biden where to look during a debate.
AFP Fact Check rating: False (The journalist was signaling to Trump, who was trying to talk while his microphone was off and her co-moderator Jake Tapper was speaking.)
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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
MISLEADING
Claim by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (I): “Russians are in Cuba firing missiles” as a warning to the U.S. about its resolve to win the war with Ukraine.
FactCheck.org rating: Misleading (Russian warships on the way to an annual trip to Cuba conducted simulated missile drills in the Atlantic but did not fire live missiles from Cuba.)
Claim via Social Media: Ronaldo was only captain to refuse to wear LGBTQ armband during Euro 2020.
USA Today rating: False (Other captains besides Ronaldo wore more typical armbands during the soccer tournament. There’s no evidence the rainbow armbands were required; in fact, the tournament organizer investigated whether they violated policy.)
Claim by Joe Biden (D): The Border Patrol Union endorsed President Biden.
KGW rating: False (No, the Border Patrol Union did not endorse President Biden. However, the Border Patrol Union did endorse a bipartisan border security bill the Biden administration negotiated with Republicans.)
Claim by Bill O’Reilly: Says as of June 30, “the decision has been made that (President Joe Biden) will quit the campaign.”
Politifact rating: False (He appears to have made this up.. As of July 3, neither President Joe Biden nor his campaign had announced that Biden would exit the presidential race.)
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FALSE
Claim via Social Media: The Gates Foundation “awarded $9.5 million to UW-Madison to make H5N1 bird flu transmissible to humans.”
Politifact rating: False (In 2009, the Gates Foundation awarded a five-year $9.5 million research grant to the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The university said the grant was set to fund efforts to identify virus mutations that could help identify influenza threats to humans.)
Claim via Social Media: Image shows all white people picnicking at Black church where Trump spoke.
USA Today rating: False (The image was not taken at the Black church in Detroit where former President Donald Trump spoke in June. It was first posted in 2023 by an actress and shows several celebrities gathered for a meal at a lodge in Idaho.)
Claim by Joe Biden (D): President Joe Biden said during the June 27 presidential debate that zero troops died abroad during his presidency.
Check Your Fact rating: False (13 U.S. service members died during the August 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal. Three soldiers died in a drone strike on a U.S. base in Jordan in January 2024.)
Claim via Social Media: The federal government is offering free commercial driver’s license courses.
USA Today rating: False (A Department of Transportation spokesperson said the claim is false. The agency has grant funding that supports state entities and other places that train and test drivers for a commercial license, but it doesn’t go directly to individuals.)
Claim by Tony Evers (D): Wisconsin had a “record-breaking year” for tourism in 2023.
Politifact rating: True (It’s common for Wisconsin to set a tourism record every year, but the pandemic caused a dip from which the state has largely recovered.)
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FALSE
Claim by Joe Biden (D):Trump “wants to get rid of Social Security, he thinks there’s plenty to cut in Social Security.”
PolitiFact rating: False (his campaign website says that not “a single penny” should be cut from Social Security, and he’s repeated similar lines in campaign rallies.)
Claim by Donald Trump (R): “I gave you the largest tax cut in history.”
PolitiFact rating: False (When it was passed in 2017, Trump’s tax cut was, in inflation-adjusted dollars, the fourth-largest since 1940. And as a percentage of gross domestic product, it ranked seventh in history.)
Claim by Joe Biden (D): “I said I’d never raise the tax on anybody if you’re making less than $400,000. I didn’t.”
PolitiFact rating: Mostly True (He has not raised any individual income taxes on Americans earning less than $400,000 a year. It’s always possible that individual taxpayers could see increases because of changes in their personal circumstances.)
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FALSE
Claim by Donald Trump (R): Nancy Pelosi said “I take full responsibility for Jan. 6.”
PolitiFact rating: False (That’s not what former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said.)
Claim by Joe Biden (D): Semiconductor jobs “to build these chips … pay over $100,000. You don’t need a college degree for them.”
PolitiFact rating: Mostly False (To earn a salary of $110,000 or higher, employees in the semiconductor industry need undergraduate or graduate-level degrees, the groups say. The most a person would make without a four-year degree is about $70,000, according to a 2021 report from the Semiconductor Industry Association and Oxford Economics.)
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FALSE
Claim by Donald Trump (R): “We had no terror (attacks) under my administration.”
PolitiFact rating: False (During Trump’s presidency, there were several major terror attacks, some linked to extreme global jihadist ideology.)
Claim via Social Media: 46 US states confirmed that Joe Biden lost the 2020 election
Logically Facts rating: False (Biden won the 2020 U.S. presidential election, and recounts done in certain states confirmed and upheld the original results without overturning them.)
(International: United Kingdom): A photo shows a Daily Mail article with a headline stating the Green Party has “interracial breeding programs” intended to end “whiteness.”
Check Your Fact rating: False (The image has been digitally altered. There is no evidence for such an article on the Daily Mail’s website or any of its social media accounts.)
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FALSE
Claim by Elon Musk: State welfare offices are helping non-citizens register to vote
Claim via Social Media: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed three bills establishing “Bible Day” on June 27, certifying “male” as the official state gender and allowing hospitals to sell beer and wine.
Claim via Social Media: 105% of Michigan’s population is registered to vote.
USA Today rating: False (The 105% represents the ratio of people on Michigan’s voter rolls compared to the number of residents who are 18 and older, not the state’s total population. It is over 100% because of a state law that requires clerks to keep inactive voters on the rolls for multiple years.)
Claim by Donald Trump (R): “Virtually 100% of the new jobs under Biden have also gone to illegal aliens.”
FactCheck.org rating: False (Since Biden became president in January 2021, employment of U.S.-born workers has increased more than employment of foreign-born workers, which includes those in the U.S. legally.)
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Claim by Donald Trump (R): Trump claimed the U.S. left $85 billion worth of brand-new military equipment in Afghanistan during the 2021 withdrawal
Check Your Fact rating: False (Multiple sources and experts indicate that Trump conflated the $88.61 billion the U.S. spent on security in Afghanistan with the value of the equipment left behind. Two reports from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan (SIGAR), released in 2019 and 2021, respectively, state the U.S. spent $18 billion on equipment.)
Claim via Social Media: Biden said he’s running to ‘reduce the prospect of war in Vietnam’
USA Today rating: False (The post misquotes Biden, who in an answer to a question about his legacy, said one reason he first ran for office was to reduce the prospect of war “because of” Vietnam – not “in” the southeast Asian country. He also makes clearer in the interview that he is referencing his bid for a U.S. Senate seat in 1972 – during the Vietnam War – not the presidency in 2024.)
Claim by Cortney Campbell (Anti-Cancer Mom): Diet and lifestyle changes, rather than standard treatments like chemotherapy or radiation, can cause spontaneous remission of cancer
Health Feedback rating: Unsupported (There is extremely limited evidence explaining the potential mechanisms for spontaneous remission of cancer. While a lifestyle choice like eating a balanced diet can have a net positive impact on health, there isn’t scientific evidence to support the notion that it can cure cancer.)
Claim by Ritchie Torres (D): “The loss of SALT deductibility cost our state $15 billion in revenue. So New Yorkers are paying more in taxes and receiving fewer services because of Donald Trump.”
Politifact rating: Mostly False (Claims that New Yorkers lose out on $15 billion because of the cap on state and local tax deductions are at odds with IRS data that show that New Yorkers actually paid less total federal taxes.)
(International: Australia): Claim by Shooters Union Australia: Proposed laws will allow Queensland authorities to order social media users to remove any content they don’t like.
Australian Associated Press rating: False (The bill would only allow police to order social media platforms to remove content depicting certain criminal acts, posted for specific purposes.)
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