Each day 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
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim by DJHJ Media (David Harris Jr.): Arizona House bill to “decertify” 2020 results “could effectively recall the Biden electors.”
PolitiFact rating: Pants on Fire (Legal experts said it isn’t possible to decertify the election. The U.S. Constitution lays out a process for the electors and certification of the presidential election, and that process was completed more than a year ago.) GOP lawmaker’s proposal to decertify Arizona election won’t change anything about 2020 |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim by dailysceptic.org: COVID Vaccines Are Experimental Gene Therapy.
Lead Stories rating: False (Not Gene Tech and fully authorized) Fact Check: COVID Vaccines Are NOT Experimental Gene Technology — They ARE Fully Authorized |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim by Troy Nehls (R): “In Joe Biden’s America, your children are more likely to have access to a crack pipe than a mask-free education.”
PolitiFact rating: Pants on Fire (Federal officials said the funds cannot be used to provide pipes. There is no federal mandate requiring children to wear masks in schools.) Claim that kids more likely to have access to crack pipes than mask-free education is Pants on Fire! |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Bitchute Video: COVID vaccines cause permanent damage to children’s critical organs.
Lead Stories rating: False (Science-Free) |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim by The RedPill: The CDC staged “the ‘escaping monkeys’ as a cover story for releasing the next bioweapon.”
PolitiFact rating: False (There’s no evidence to support the claim that the CDC staged a crash involving lab monkeys as cover to release a bioweapon. A woman who was reported ill after encountering the animals was exposed to COVID, and told a local reporter that she wasn’t sick from the crash. ) |
| BLATANT LIE |
(International: New Zealand): The New Zealand government is considering putting COVID-19 vaccines into city water supplies.
Australian Associated Press rating: False (The story is a fabrication and the original Facebook post is a fake.) Truth sold down the river in post about COVID vaccine in NZ water |
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