The Latest Fact Checks curated by Media Bias Fact Check 02/13/2024

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	Did he say it?: Former U.S. President Donald Trump said, during a Feb. 5, 2024, interview on Newsmax, “This country is just, it’s so pathetic.” Snopes.com rating: True (Correct Attribution) Did Trump Really Say ‘This Country Is Just So Pathetic’? Donald Trump Rating
BLATANT LIE	Claim via Social Media: “It takes SEVEN years for an electric car to reach net-zero CO2.” Only after that, “do you begin to reduce your carbon footprint.” FactCheck.org rating: False (Under current conditions, it would take an electric car 19,500 miles, or less than two years of typical driving in the U.S., to pay back the increased emissions of the manufacturing process and break even with a comparable gasoline car. Electric Vehicles Contribute Fewer Emissions Than Gasoline-Powered Cars Over Their Lifetimes
BLATANT LIE	Claim by Rep. Steve Scalise (R): The Senate border bill would have allowed 5,000 migrants in per day WUSA9 rating: False (Five thousand encounters would have triggered mandatory actions, but that does not equate to 5,000 people coming and staying.) No, the Senate border bill would not have allowed 5,000 migrants in per day \| VERIFY
FALSE	Claim by Joe Biden (D): “All the stuff that was in my home was in filing cabinets that were either locked or able to be locked.” PolitiFact rating: Incorrect (The report said investigators found classified documents from 2009 stored in a “badly damaged box surrounded by household detritus,” such as a collapsed dog crate, a broken map and potting soil in the garage of Biden’s Wilmington, Delaware, home.) Fact-checking Joe Biden about sharing classified materials, keeping them in lockable cabinets Joe Biden Rating
FALSE	Claim by Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo: The US medicine regulator breached its own guidelines by failing to test the mRNA COVID-19 vaccine for DNA integration. Australian Associated Press rating: False (The guidelines refer to DNA vaccines, not mRNA vaccines.) No, regulator did not breach vaccine testing guidelines
FALSE	(International: United Kingdom): King Charles’ cancer diagnosis is linked to mRNA cancer therapy trial in U.K. PolitiFact rating: False (The first patient in the U.K. to receive the new mRNA cancer therapy did so in October 2023. King Charles was diagnosed recently) First UK patient received mRNA cancer dose in October, months before reports of King Charles’ cancer