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
With Midterms coming up in November, we will be publishing as many politician facts checks as we can find.
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| MOSTLY FALSE |
Claim by National Rifle Association: Says Gov. Tony Evers would, “allow the government to use red flag laws to confiscate your firearms without due process.”
PolitiFact rating: Mostly False (Although the initial action could be taken ex parte — without the gun owner present — a judge is typically involved from the start, and the removal of the guns is temporary.) National Rifle Association off target on red flag law process |
| FALSE | Claim by Santa Monica Observer: Paul Pelosi brought the man who attacked him with a hammer in October 2022 home from a gay bar.
Snopes rating: False (The Santa Monica Observer is an imposter website that provides no evidence for this claim.) False Rumor Claims Paul Pelosi Brought Attacker Home from Gay Bar |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: Video shows Marjorie Taylor Greene planted pipe bombs at Republican and Democratic party headquarters on Jan. 5, 2021.
Politifact rating: False (Investigators have named no suspects. In a separate court case that dealt with Greene’s activities relating to Jan. 6, 2021, a judge wrote that the evidence was insufficient to establish that Greene “engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or [gave] aid or comfort to the enemies thereof under the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.”) No suspects have been named in Jan. 6-related pipe bomb incident |
| FALSE | Claim by Fox News host Tucker Carlson: The U.S. will run out of diesel fuel in 25 days.
VERIFYThis.com rating: False (The U.S. will not run out of diesel fuel in 25 days.) No, the U.S. isn’t going to run out of diesel fuel in 25 days |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim by J.D. Vance: Rep. Tim Ryan “wanted to decriminalize fentanyl.”
PolitiFact rating: Pants on Fire (Ryan said Marijuana) J.D. Vance accused Tim Ryan of wanting to decriminalize fentanyl, but Ryan was talking about pot |
| FALSE | (International: Australia): COVID-19 always had a greater survival rate than influenza.
Australian Associated Press rating: False (COVID has a higher mortality rate than influenza, data shows.) |
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