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
| FALSE | Claim via Social Media: “China launch attack from 68 aircraft and destroys Taiwan armory” after visit by Nancy Pelosi.
FactCheck.org rating: Unsupported Video Makes Unsubstantiated Claim About Chinese Maneuvers After Pelosi Visit to Taiwan |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: Cancer occurs when “your body is full of acidity”; alkalizing your body prevents cancer
Health Feedback rating: Incorrect (Scientific evidence indicates that the cause of cancer are gene mutations, not the body’s acidity. Food intake doesn’t affect the acid-base balance in the body unless the person already has a metabolic disease affecting the organs that regulate the body’s pH.) |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: Photo shows a “massive” crowd at a Trump rally in Wisconsin on Aug. 5, 2022.
Politifact rating: False (The photo is not from a Donald Trump rally in Wisconsin on Aug. 5, 2022.) Photo claiming ‘massive’ crowd at Trump’s Aug. 5 Wisconsin rally is actually from 2020 |
| FALSE | Claim by Donald Trump (R): “We are no longer energy independent or energy dominant, which we were just two short years ago.”
The Washington Post rating: False (We’ve never been energy independent.) |
| NO EVIDENCE |
Claim by Social media posts: Biden “had his department of justice’s FBI raid the private home of the leading candidate to replace him.”
FactCheck.org rating: No Evidence Social Media, Politicians Make Unfounded Claims of Politicized Mar-a-Lago Search |
| FALSE | (International: Australia): Claim by Colin Boyce MP: Humans are responsible for just three per cent of atmospheric CO2.
Australian Associated Press rating: False (Human activity has contributed to more than a third of carbon dioxide in the earth’s atmosphere.) |
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