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
| MOSTLY FALSE |
Claim by Ron Johnson (R): Federal border officials are allowing undocumented immigrants who are “known criminals who possess an arrest warrant to fly on U.S. aircraft (which) threatens our homeland security.”
PolitiFact rating: Mostly False (The TSA is accepting civil immigration violation forms as a means of identification, and has been doing so since 2019. Those forms are issued by ICE, a different agency, but are labeled as “Warrant for Arrest of Alien.”) Immigrants who are known criminals are not using an arrest warrant to fly on US aircraft |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: CNN Did Report That Explosion In Ukraine Was ‘Peaceful’
Lead Stories rating: False (Fake Banner) Fact Check: CNN Did NOT Report That Explosion In Ukraine Was ‘Peaceful’ |
| FALSE | Claim by Physicians for Informed Consent: “CDC data show mass vaccination with the COVID-19 vaccine has had no measurable impact on COVID-19 mortality in the U.S.”
FactCheck.org rating: False (There is significant evidence to the contrary.) COVID-19 Vaccines Have Prevented Deaths, Contrary to Misleading Graphic on Social Media |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: Former beauty queen Anastasiia Lenna joined the Ukrainian military.
USA Today rating: False (She is holding an airsoft gun and has not joined the military.) Fact check: Anastasiia Lenna, ex-beauty queen, didn’t join military |
| MOSTLY TRUE |
Claim by Joe Biden (D): “Under my plan, nobody earning less than $400,000 a year will pay an additional penny in new taxes. Not a single penny.”
PolitiFact rating: Mostly True (Biden’s plans do not include direct tax increases on households with less than $400,000 of annual income. But Biden has proposed higher taxes on corporations, which will impact workers.) |
| FALSE | (International: Australia): The Therapeutic Goods Administration overturned a ban on ivermectin as a treatment for COVID-19.
Australian Associated Press rating: False (The TGA’s policy on the anti-parasitical drug to treat COVID has not changed.) |
Disclaimer: We are providing links to fact checks by third-party fact-checkers. If you do not agree with a fact check, please directly contact the source of that fact check.
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