Opposing Fact Checks on Trump's Disinfectant Remarks Fuel Misinformation

President Donald Trump's inquiry about possibly using disinfectant to treat the COVID-19 coronavirus at last Thursday's White House press briefing sparked a slew of online misinformation. Different fact-checkers reached different conclusions, displaying various forms of media bias in how they perceived and analyzed the remarks. AllSides concludes that many media outlets located throughout the political spectrum conducted poor and sometimes misleading "fact checks" that negatively affected the public's ability to accurately discern what the president said and meant. The president suggested looking into "something like" disinfectant injections as a possible COVID-19 treatment; he did not suggest people self-medicate by injecting disinfectant.