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.
| FALSE | Claim by Senate Leadership Fund and Our American Century: Congressional Democrats gave the IRS funding that would allow it to “extract” $20 billion in “higher taxes” from “lower- and middle-income families.”
FactCheck.org rating: False (Uses old report) GOP Ads Use Outdated Federal Report to Attack Democrats on ‘Higher Taxes’ |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: Senator Ted Cruz Said He Has Hunter Biden’s Laptop Files.
Lead Stories rating: False (He did not say that.) Fact Check: Ted Cruz Did NOT Say He Has Hunter Biden’s Laptop Files In This Video |
| MOSTLY FALSE |
Claim via Social Media: “Lifeguard/football player Joe Biden got five draft deferments for asthma during Vietnam.”
Politifact rating: Mostly False (President Joe Biden did receive five draft deferments, but they were granted because he was a student, first in college and then law school. Later, Biden underwent a physical exam and received a Selective Service 1-Y classification — which specified that he could be drafted only in a national emergency — because of his asthma.) |
| BLATANT LIE |
CLAIM: Humans and other mammals injected with an mRNA vaccine die within five years.
AP Fact Check: False (There is no scientific evidence to suggest humans or other mammals given an mRNA vaccine die within five years.) ukraine-biden-science-health-adbf7288863f506cae9e795c6c3b88e5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week |
| FALSE | Claim by Joe Biden (D): The 3.7% unemployment rate is “nearly a 50-year low in our country.”
FactCheck.org rating: False (It was lower in January 2020 and July 2022.) Biden’s Misleading Claims About the Economic Recovery and Unemployment |
| FALSE | (International: Russia): Claim by Mail Online: One in five Britons are resorting to ‘DIY dentistry’ due to a drought of NHS dental appointments, according to a recent poll.
Full Fact rating: False (The poll, carried out by the Liberal Democrats, found that approximately a quarter of respondents had failed to get an appointment with their local NHS dentist over the past year. Of those, 21% resorted to either attempting dentistry on themselves, or asked a friend or family member to do it for them.) Poll didn’t find 20% of Britons are resorting to ‘DIY dentistry’ – Full Fact |
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