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. (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
| FALSE | Claim by Ron DeSantis (R): The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recent guidance on students and masking “lacks a well-grounded scientific justification.”
Politifact rating: False (mask-wearing is effective in protecting children from COVID-19 and preventing COVID transmission in schools.) DeSantis’ executive order misleads about the lack of scientific support for masking in schools |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim by Mike Lindell: Video shows 2020 election data for Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin
Lead Stories rating: False (Uses duplicate data to skew numbers, either intentionally or by mistake) |
| FALSE | Claim by Dr. Daniel Stock: The COVID-19 vaccines “fight the virus wrong and let the virus become worse than it would with native infection.”
FactCheck.org rating: False (Interesting to note that this Doctor sells vitamins and supplements) Indiana Doctor Piles On Bogus COVID-19 Claims in Viral Video |
| TRUE | Claim by Ted Lieu, John Bolton, Mark Milley: The U.S. military has imposed vaccine mandates before.
Newsweek rating: True |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: Fully Vaccinated In Italy Burned COVID-19 Green Passes In Solidarity With Unvaccinated
Lead Stories rating: False (Digital Passes – There is no paper passes) |
| BLATANT LIE |
(International: Japan): Japan’s newspaper calls Japanese gymnast and Olympic champion Daiki Hashimoto “national shame”
AFP Fact Check rating: False (Fake) Doctored report falsely claims Japanese newspaper called Olympic champion a ‘national shame’ |
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