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Video of hundreds of Bhim Army supporters rally seeking justice for Indra Meghwal
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
The claim concerns a video presented as showing hundreds of Bhim Army supporters rallying for justice for Indra Meghwal, a nine-year-old boy who allegedly died after being beaten by a schoolteacher in Jalore. FACTLY’s investigation says the footage does not show that rally: it shows people following Shihab Chottur, a Kerala man making a journey to Mecca on foot. The investigation describes checking screenshots from the video with reverse image search, then searching relevant keywords for the footage. It found a Facebook post uploaded on 18 August 2022 with similar visuals, described there as a crowd welcoming Chottur in Rajasthan’s Parabatsar town. The review also reports that clearer footage showed Chottur walking on a highway with a crowd and police following him, and that Chottur uploaded a video of his Rajasthan journey on 17 August 2022. These details support the distinction between the video’s actual subject and the rally described in the claim. The review separately notes that Bhim Army workers did protest in connection with Chandra Shekhar Azad’s detention, but describes those demonstrations as occurring at the Bharatpur Collectorate and on highways leading to Jalore. That reporting provides context for the claim, but does not make the circulating video footage of those protests. The investigation concludes that the video was related to Chottur’s journey, not the Bhim Army or Indra Meghwal’s death.
Shocking information from the Tuticorin shooting inquiry commission. The autopsy confirmed that sniper rifles were used.
Publisher’s rating: Misleading
Video showing the funeral procession of Rajasthan Dalit boy Indra Meghwal
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
The claim concerns a video presented as showing the funeral procession of Indra Meghwal, a nine-year-old boy whose death after an alleged beating by a schoolteacher in Jalore district, Rajasthan, drew public attention. FACTLY’s review says the shared video instead shows the funeral procession of Indian Army soldier Jilajeet Yadav in Jaunpur district, Uttar Pradesh. Yadav was martyred in a terrorist attack in Pulwama in August 2020, so the footage predates and is unrelated to Meghwal’s funeral. The review describes how it identified the footage: it used reverse image searches on screenshots from the circulating video and found videos with similar visuals published by YouTube channels in August 2020. Those channels identified the procession as Yadav’s funeral in Jaunpur. FACTLY also reports finding an Amar Ujala article that used a photograph with similar visuals and described Yadav’s funeral procession in his native village, Dhaurhara Ijri. The article and videos provide the reported provenance linking the shared footage to Yadav, rather than Meghwal. The review distinguishes the two funerals: it says Meghwal’s body was cremated on 14 August 2022, after the family and administration consented, and points to a separate video of his procession. Its conclusion is that the post used old footage of Yadav’s funeral as though it showed Meghwal’s. The supplied review excerpt does not provide further details about the separate video, so the comparison is limited to the evidence described there.
Policial só tem que andar armado em serviço, na folga vai deixar arma no quartel; Vamos criar uma rede social própria para monitorar PMs em tempo integral; A Polícia tem que entender que o bandido também é um cidadão de bem; Havendo ocorrência com morte, o policial será exonerado; Não acho que policial ganha pouco; É inaceitável qualquer atividade na hora de folga; A Rota precisa ser extinta; Não acho justo um delegado fazer flagrante de um jovem que estava com um quilo de maconha… (Fernando Haddad) Candidato a Governador de SP
Publisher’s rating: Falso
São Paulo vem aumentando a apreensão de armas nos últimos tempos
Publisher’s rating: Verdadeiro, mas...
安倍元首相銃撃事件「ビル屋上にスナイパー小屋」→誤り。動画やツイートが拡散
Publisher’s rating: 誤り
The claim concerned a pale object visible on the rooftop of Sanwa City Saidaiji, a commercial building near the site where former prime minister Shinzo Abe was shot while speaking in Nara on July 8, 2022. Videos and posts said it was a sniper’s hideout and argued that it had been removed within three hours of the shooting. The review describes a YouTube video published on August 16 that used helicopter footage taken by television stations shortly after the attack and presented the rooftop object as evidence of a sniper. BuzzFeed News contacted Sanwa Jutaku, the company that manages and operates the building. The company said the object was a white tent, about two tatami mats in size, used during rooftop work to clean and inspect the smoke-exhaust duct. Company employees were present for that work, and the tent was taken down after the maintenance was finished. The review therefore identifies an ordinary work-related explanation for the object, rather than a sniper’s shelter. The review also reports that the rooftop entrance was normally locked and that people without a connection to the building could not enter. The manager said there had been no suspicious person there. This account addresses the specific location and rooftop object depicted in the circulating footage; the excerpt does not describe an independent examination of the video’s timestamps or provide separate records confirming the maintenance schedule.
Old dancing video of nine-year-old boy Indra Meghwal who was allegedly beaten to death by a teacher
Publisher’s rating: MISLEADING
The claim identifies the boy in a dancing video as Indra Meghwal, a nine-year-old allegedly beaten to death by a teacher in Rajasthan. FACTLY’s investigation found that the boy shown was instead Harish Bheel, a class-II student at a government school in Barmer district. The review says it compared images of Indra with the boy in the video and found them different. The review traced the clip to a longer school-performance video. It reports finding an earlier YouTube upload dated 4 August 2022, then locating a Facebook post by the school dated 30 July 2022. That post described a confident performance by class-II student Harish on a “No bag day”; FACTLY says the viral clip was a trimmed version of the school video. The identification was also supported by people connected with the school and the deceased child’s family. A teacher at the school told FACTLY the dancer was Harish, not Indra. The review further reports that the school headmaster gave the same identification to India Today, and that Indra’s father confirmed to India Today that the dancer was not his son. The review’s evidence therefore contradicts the video’s claimed identification; it does not dispute the reported death of Indra.
Antonio Trillanes and Leila De Lima are going to be imprisoned. Bato Dela Rosa presented evidence against them.
Publisher’s rating: False
המשטרה הוסיפה 12 מחלקי משפחה בתחנות משטרה בערים ערביות
Publisher’s rating: לא נכון ברובו
Omar Bar-Lev, then public security minister, said that 12 family-violence units had been added that year at police stations in Arab towns. The Globes investigation checked whether these units had actually been established, and where. It compared government implementation documents and information from the Public Security and Welfare ministries with responses from the police about the planned locations. The investigation found that the government had approved an expansion, but the units had not yet begun operating. The ministry said that 23 police positions had been allocated to establish 11 units, and that only six positions had been filled; the remaining positions were planned for later in 2022. The Welfare Ministry confirmed that 7.2 million shekels had been transferred for the 11 units. These figures do not support Bar-Lev’s claim that 12 units had already been added. The location list also undercut his description of the expansion as being exclusively in Arab towns. The police named 11 locations, including Rahat, Nazareth and Kafr Qasim, as well as places such as Modiin Illit and Kiryat Gat. The review concluded that five were in Arab towns or neighborhoods and one was in the mixed city of Acre. Thus, the announced plan was both smaller than claimed and not limited to Arab localities; it was a plan for future units, not evidence that 12 had already been established.
Bruce Reinhart, de rechter die de huiszoeking bij Mar-a-Lago goedkeurde, is hier te zien op een foto met Ghislaine Maxwell op de 'Lolita Express' van Jeffrey Epstein.
Publisher’s rating: De foto is bewerkt en toont helemaal niet Bruce Reinhart. In werkelijkheid was het Epstein zelf die een massage kreeg van Maxwell.
The claim concerned a social-media image said to show Bruce Reinhart, the Florida judge who approved the Mar-a-Lago search, receiving a foot massage from Ghislaine Maxwell in Epstein’s private jet. The review says the image was being circulated amid attention to the search of Donald Trump’s estate on August 8, 2022, and to Reinhart’s role in authorizing it. The photo did not establish that Reinhart had such a connection to Maxwell: the review identifies the image as manipulated. To check it, the publisher reports using a Google reverse image search. That search led to the original photograph, which shows Maxwell giving a massage to Jeffrey Epstein—not Reinhart. The review says the original image had been released as evidence in Maxwell’s December 2021 trial concerning the intimate relationship between Maxwell and Epstein. Thus, the altered image substituted Reinhart for the person actually shown in the source photograph. The review also traces the material used to create the alteration. It says the edited image carried the watermark of the Instagram account “What I Meme to Say,” while the photo of Reinhart used in the edit came from his personal Facebook profile and dated from 2017. The review separately notes a documented connection between Reinhart and Epstein-related legal proceedings: he represented several of Epstein’s employees in 2008. That background is distinct from the photo and does not make Reinhart the person depicted in the original image.
यह वीडियो इंद्र कुमार मेघवाल का है, जिसकी टीचर छेलू सिंह ने मटकी से पानी पीने के कारण पिटाई कर हत्या कर दी
Publisher’s rating: False
Claim: Rapid FactCheck: காணாமல் போன இந்த சிறுமி மங்களூரில் கிடைத்தாரா? I is this missing girl child found in mangalore with beggars
Publisher’s rating: Fact Crescendo தமிழ் Rating: FALSE
The claim attached a Mangalore missing-child story to a circulating photograph, saying the girl had been found with beggars. Fact Crescendo says it investigated the photograph after a reader asked whether the claim was true and after seeing people share it on Facebook as fact. The review concludes the Mangalore identification is not reliable. Its central finding is that the same photograph had circulated in earlier, conflicting stories about the girl’s identity and location. The review says the image had been used in 2019 for a claim that the girl was from Vellore and attended a government school. It also refers to earlier claims placing her in Pakistan or Bihar. In the review’s account, the image was reused with a new Mangalore story, rather than establishing that the pictured girl was the missing child described in that claim. The excerpt does not provide details of an independent identification, a missing-person record, or a direct examination of the girl’s identity. It says Fact Crescendo had published a prior investigation, but that earlier article is not included here. The conclusion supported by this excerpt is therefore that the Mangalore identification is an unsupported reuse of an old photograph—not that the excerpt independently establishes who the girl actually is.
POLICIAL SÓ TEM Q. ANDAR ARMADO EM SERVIÇO, NA FOLGA VAI DEIXAR ARMA NO QUARTEL; VAMOS CRIAR UM REDE SOCIAL PRÓPRIA PARA MONITORAR PMs EM TEMPO INTEGRAL; A POLİCIA TEM Q. ENTENDER Q.O BANDIDO TBM É UM CIDADÃO DE BEM; HAVENDO OCORRÉNCIA COM MORTE, O POLICIAL SERÁ EXONErADO;
Publisher’s rating: Falso
The claim reproduces a circulating message attributing statements about police officers, firearms, monitoring police, people accused of crimes, and dismissal after a fatal incident to Fernando Haddad, then a candidate for governor of São Paulo. The review says the message also included a claim that he wanted to abolish Rota. It concludes that Haddad did not make the attributed statements. The review describes how it assessed the allegation: it searched for the statements and reports that it found no corresponding social-media post, video, or account in reliable sources. It also says the message appeared to originate in social-media circulation, rather than citing a verifiable source. The article points to the message’s vague wording, alarmist tone, language errors, and lack of reliable supporting sources as reasons for suspicion; those features are supporting observations, while the reported search for corroboration is the more direct check. The review’s conclusion covers the claims in the circulated message, not just the excerpted lines in the claim: it says Haddad made no such statements about police or people accused of crimes and did not say he would end Rota. The supplied excerpt does not provide search logs or identify the particular social-media posts examined, so the account of the checking is limited to the methods and findings the review itself reports.
තරුණ ස්වාමීන් වහන්සේගේ සහ තරුණියගේ ඥාතීත්වය පොලීසිය තහවුරු කරාද ?
Publisher’s rating: Misleading
The review investigated posts claiming that the young monk and woman in a widely shared video were biological siblings, and that police had identified them while they were travelling to visit their mother, who had cancer. It says the posts did not specify which police station supposedly confirmed this. The review also notes that the video showed local residents speaking about the pair, but did not show either of them explaining what had happened. The claim therefore concerned police confirmation of the pair’s relationship, not merely what viewers inferred from the video. [S1]
The judiciary of Dubai has ordered that a rapist be executed within 15 minutes of the incident. The video in the post shows the execution of the rapist
Publisher’s rating: MISLEADING
The claim combines two assertions: that Dubai authorities ordered a rapist executed within 15 minutes of an assault, and that the accompanying video shows that execution. FACTLY reports that the post’s video depicts a public execution, but says it was from Yemen, not Dubai. The review identifies the executed man as Hussein Abdullah Al-Saket and says he was accused of abducting, raping, and killing a five-year-old girl.