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: “Boston Children’s Hospital is now offering ‘gender-affirming hysterectomies’ for young girls.”
Politifact rating: False (To qualify for a gender-affirming hysterectomy at Boston Children’s Hospital, patients must be 18 or older and must have a letter from a medical doctor stating they have “persistent, well-documented, gender dysphoria.”) No, Boston Children’s Hospital doesn’t provide hysterectomies for children |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: Ron DeSantis went on Hannity to defend the FBI raid on Mar A Lago
Lead Stories rating: False (Doctored Video) |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: “Millions of people will become felons overnight” because of the Assault Weapons Ban of 2022.
FactCheck.org rating: False (Grandfather Clause) Proposed ‘Assault Weapons Ban’ Includes Grandfather Clause, Contrary to Social Media Posts |
| MOSTLY FALSE |
Claim by Donald Trump (R): Trump Claims That Inflation Bill Raises Middle Income Taxes
Newsweek rating: Mostly False (The Inflation Reduction Act would not increase taxes for Americans earning less than $400,000. The basis of Trump’s statement is a single piece of analysis which, while thorough and comes from an authoritative source, is still just a projection of potential follow-on costs after corporations and others are taxed.) Fact Check: Is Trump Right That Inflation Bill Raises Middle Income Taxes? |
| FALSE | Claim via Social Media: Biden spent 15 times more securing Ukraine than Trump spent on US border
USA Today rating: False (The amount approved for military and security ($26.5 billion) so far is between two and three times the $11 billion border wall tally, not 15 times.) Fact check: Claim overstates money US approved in aid for Ukraine |
| FALSE | (International: United Kingdom): Claim by The Expose: We’re not witnessing an outbreak of monkeypox across first-world countries, but the consequences of the damage that has been caused to immune systems by the Covid-19 vaccines.
Full Fact rating: False (Thousands of monkeypox infections have been confirmed in laboratories, and the Covid-19 vaccines have not caused widespread immune damage.) Monkeypox is not a government conspiracy to cover up ‘vaccine-induced’ diseases – Full Fact |
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