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ರಾಜಸ್ಥಾನದ ಬಲಾಢ್ಯ ಜಾತಿಯ ಸಮೂಹವು ದಲಿತನೊಬ್ಬನಿಗೆ ಚಿತ್ರಹಿಂಸೆ ನೀಡಿ, ಬಲವಂತವಾಗಿ ಮೂತ್ರ ಕುಡಿಸಲಾಗಿದೆ.
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
«In Deutschland werden derzeit mehr als 100.000 Kinder und Jugendliche vermisst.» Das schreibt ein Facebook-Nutzer am 11. August 2020. Hat er recht?
Publisher’s rating: Die Zahl der Kinder und Jugendlichen, die aktuell in Deutschland vermisst werden, ist deutlich geringer.
A Facebook user claimed on August 11, 2020, that more than 100,000 children and young people were currently missing in Germany. The dpa review checked the number against figures supplied by the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), which records missing-person cases in Germany. The BKA reported that, as of July 1, 2020, 1,821 children and 2,838 young people under 18 were listed as missing—a combined total of 4,659, far below the figure in the post. These are the BKA’s recorded cases at that date, not a count of everyone who had ever gone missing. The review also explains why the BKA’s figures should not be confused with the number of new cases arising over time. For minors, the police classify someone as missing when they have left their usual surroundings and their whereabouts are unknown; unlike adults, minors cannot choose their own place of residence. The BKA’s quarterly figures include both cases resolved within days and unresolved cases dating back as much as 30 years. The review notes that many cases are resolved quickly, so daily new-case counts do not mean that all those people remain missing at once.
Knapp eine Million vermisste Kinder soll es jedes Jahr in den USA geben. Das suggeriert ein Facebook-Post vom 16. August 2020. Darin ist neben dem Foto eines Fußball-Spiels zu lesen: «Dies ist ein Bild von 123.000 Menschen in einem Stadion. Stellen Sie sich nun eine 8x so große Menge vor. So viele Kinder werden JEDES EINZELNE JAHR allein in den USA vermisst.» Stimmt das?
Publisher’s rating: In den USA verschwinden jährlich deutlich weniger Kinder als behauptet. Ein Großteil der Fälle wird gelöst.
The post used a photograph of a soccer match and a comparison with a crowd of 123,000 to suggest that nearly one million children go missing in the United States every year. The review examined the figures recorded by the FBI’s National Crime Information Center (NCIC), which tracks newly reported missing-person cases and cases resolved each month for people up to age 21. The figures therefore concern children and young people, not only children below a narrower age threshold. The review reports 401,875 new missing-person reports in 2019, alongside 401,764 cases resolved. In 2018, the NCIC recorded 405,046 people under 21 reported missing and 407,653 cases resolved. For 2017, it recorded 445,345 new reports and 447,023 resolved cases. These annual counts are far below the post’s implied figure of nearly one million new reports. A key qualification is that resolved cases in a given month can include cases reported earlier. As the review explains, this means the monthly total of cases resolved can sometimes exceed the number newly reported that month; the yearly figures should not be read as a simple tally of children currently missing. The NCIC numbers also show that many cases were resolved. The review concludes that the post’s annual figure is inaccurate and omits this important distinction between reports and resolutions.
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Publisher’s rating: 不實
Ministra Damares Alves afirma que "tem abuso que é prazeroso para a criança, porque o pedófilo sabe como tocar, onde tocar"
Publisher’s rating: Enganoso: A frase é verdadeira mas a postagem omite o contexto. O trecho foi retirado de uma entrevista concedida à BBC na qual a ministra Damares Alves dizia que mulheres vítimas de abuso sexual na infância não deveriam acreditar no discurso do abusador de que elas são culpadas por aqueles atos
Op Facebook is een foto geplaatst van een man met pistool die de moordenaar van Bas van Wijk zou zijn. In de begeleidende tekst staat dat Van Wijk door deze man vijf keer in zijn rug werd geschoten, maar klopt dat wel?
Publisher’s rating: Niets wijst erop dat op de foto de moordenaar van Bas van Wijk staat. De foto wordt bovendien onderzocht in verband met een andere moord die plaatsvond in Scheveningen. Er zijn geen aanwijzingen dat die moord iets te maken heeft met de moord op Bas Van Wijk.
Police thrashing a person for hoisting the BSP flag on Independence day
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
The claim concerns a video said to show police beating a person for hoisting a blue BSP flag instead of the national flag on Independence Day. FACTLY’s review says the footage instead shows a man being beaten for violating lockdown rules in March 2020, and that the incident was unrelated to the BSP or Independence Day celebrations. The review describes the video as an old recording that was recirculated with a misleading explanation. To investigate, the reviewers used reverse image searches on screenshots from the video. They report finding a similar photograph in a Patrika article dated 25 March 2020, which described police beating people who had violated government-imposed lockdown rules. They also found the same video posted by Amar Ujala as punishment for violating lockdown restrictions. The review further reports two visual clues in the footage: a police vehicle bears the Maharashtra police logo, and the flag appears to be that of the Republic Party of India (Athawale), not the BSP. Together, the reporting and the video details contradict the post’s account of the flag, occasion and reason for the beating.
“No tenemos reporte de robo a transporte, al contrario, hemos bajado ese robo, el robo de transporte, en todo el país, hay una comunicación constante, permanente con los transportistas y ha disminuido el robo de camiones de carga y de trenes, esa es la información que tenemos”.
Publisher’s rating: Falso
Verificado examined the claim that transport theft had fallen nationwide, including thefts involving cargo trucks and trains. The review labels that claim false and states that transport theft had not decreased; it points to June 2020 as relevant evidence. However, the supplied excerpt ends before giving the June figures or explaining their comparison, so it does not establish the size or precise basis of the reported increase. Further detail about the investigation’s data or method cannot be verified from this excerpt.
Unter der Überschrift «Vergewaltigungs-Hotspot Berlin: Merkels Migranten schänden jeden Tag 2 deutsche Frauen» beschäftigt sich die Webseite «Anonymousnews» mit Zahlen zu sexueller Gewalt in der deutschen Hauptstadt - insbesondere im Zusammenhang mit dem Thema Migration.
Publisher’s rating: Die Überschrift ist durch die zitierte Statistik nicht gedeckt. «Migrant» wird darin nicht als Kriterium aufgeführt. Richtig ist, dass es für Berlin im Berichtszeitraum im Schnitt zwei Vergewaltigungsdelikte pro Tag gibt. Etwas mehr als die Hälfte der Tatverdächtigen hat jedoch die deutsche Staatsangehörigkeit.
The Anonymousnews headline asserted that migrants were committing two rapes of German women in Berlin every day. The review traced the article’s figures to a Berlin Senate response to a parliamentary inquiry by Marcel Luthe. That response tabulated police-recorded cases by calendar week for the period from February 24 to July 7, 2020. The review noted that the article’s stated start date was not quite right: figures could be calculated from March 2, a Monday. (S1: “«Anonymousnews» beruft sich auf eine Antwort des Berliner Senats auf eine Anfrage des fraktionslosen Mitglieds des Berliner Abgeordnetenhauses Marcel Luthe zu Zahlen sexueller Gewalt in Berlin. In dem Dokument werden die Zahlen der von der Polizei erfassten Fälle für den Zeitraum vom 24. Februar bis zum 7. Juli 2020 nach Kalenderwochen gestaffelt aufgeführt (ab Seite 1).”) For March 2 through July 7, the tables listed 256 offenses in the specified rape categories. Dividing that total by the 128 days in the period yields two such offenses per day. But the statistic counted offenses, not assaults on German women by migrants: it did not establish victims’ nationality, and the review says the Senate’s figures did not classify suspects by migration background. (S1: “Für diesen Zeitraum werden in den Tabellen 256 Vergewaltigungsdelikte aufgeführt und nicht - wie im Artikel behauptet - «234 vollzogene beziehungsweise 25 versuchte Fälle».”; “Teilt man die Gesamtzahl von 256 durch die Zahl der Tage im genannten Zeitraum (128), ergibt sich tatsächlich ein Wert von zwei solcher Taten pro Tag.”; “Zur Nationalität der Opfer macht der Senat keine Angaben.”) The suspect data also do not support attributing the offenses to migrants as the headline does. The Senate response distinguished suspects with and without German citizenship, but did not use migration background as a criterion. For rape offenses, it listed 207 suspects from early March through July 9, of whom 91—44 percent—did not have German citizenship. The review also cautioned that the article’s claim of one German woman being raped every 12 hours was unsupported: victim nationality was not reported, and the records included some male victims. (S1: “Die Senatsstatistik differenziert ab Seite 73 zwischen Tatverdächtigen mit und ohne deutsche Staatsangehörigkeit, berücksichtigt jedoch nicht das Kriterium Migrationshintergrund.”; “Von Anfang März bis einschließlich zum 9. Juli 2020 wird im Zusammenhang mit Vergewaltigungsdelikten die Zahl von 207 Tatverdächtigen genannt. Von diesen haben 91 (44 Prozent) keine deutsche Staatsangehörigkeit”; “Zudem ist dem Dokument ab Seite 34 zu entnehmen, dass, wenn auch nur zu einem kleinen Anteil, auch Männer Opfer von Vergewaltigungen geworden sind.”)
Kamala Harris framed and prosecuted a man for murder
Publisher’s rating: Mostly false
Photo of a man holding the poster questioning the efficiency of Mumbai Police in investigating Sushant Singh Rajput’s death
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
The claim concerns a photo of a man holding a poster that criticizes Mumbai Police’s investigation into Sushant Singh Rajput’s death. The poster’s Hindi text says that the same police investigating Sushant Singh’s case had failed to identify, over 18 years, who was driving Salman’s vehicle on the night in question. The review’s investigation focused on whether that wording was part of the original photo or had been added later. FACTLY reports that it used Google Reverse Image Search and found a similar version of the image online at least since December 2019—before Rajput’s death in June 2020. In those earlier versions, the poster carried different wording about CAA and NRC, not Sushant Singh Rajput or Mumbai Police. The review says it did not find the photo’s original source, so it does not identify who made or altered the image. The evidence supports the review’s conclusion that the circulating image had been edited: a version predating the death shows the same or a similar photo with unrelated poster text. This establishes that the Sushant-related wording was not present in the documented earlier versions; it does not establish the photo’s original provenance or independently assess the police investigation or the underlying Salman vehicle case.
Hillary Clinton's emails contained evidence that she participated in child sex trafficking.
Publisher’s rating: False
सुशांत केस की CBI के साथ मिलकर जांच करेंगे IPS विनय
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
Video of a Dalit man tortured and forced to drink urine by dominant caste mob in Rajasthan
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
FACTLY examined a social-media video described as showing a man tied to a tree, beaten and forced to drink urine. The claim attached to it identified the victim as Dalit and the attackers as a dominant-caste mob in Rajasthan. The review instead identifies the incident as having occurred in Konra village, Barmer district, in the context of a family dispute over an alleged illicit relationship. The review describes two checks. First, reverse-image searches of screenshots from the video found a similar image in a Hindustan Times article dated 31 July 2020. FACTLY says that report described a man in Barmer being tied to a tree, beaten and forced to drink urine over an alleged illicit relationship. It also reports that police told the media the victim and accused belonged to the same community. Second, FACTLY says Barmer Police responded to a social-media post sharing the video and called the incident a family dispute that had been given a communal framing. The police response said six people had been arrested. FACTLY also reports accessing the Chohtan Police Station FIR: it placed the incident on 25 July 2020 and did not mention a Dalit angle. These details support the review’s conclusion that the video showed a real assault, but not the caste-motivated attack described in the claim.