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Crime & justice fact checks

Explore claims publishers have checked about crime & justice. Read their original ratings and follow the evidence.

6,857 published reviews in this topic

Folha de S.PauloCrime & justice

Imagem mostra Domingos Brazão, preso suspeito de ser um dos mandantes do assassinato da vereadora Marielle Franco, ao lado do presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT), do prefeito do Rio de Janeiro Eduardo Paes (PSD) e dos ex-governadores do Rio Sérgio Cabral e Luiz Fernando Pezão.

Publisher’s rating: Falso

The claim concerns a photograph said to show Domingos Brazão with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Rio de Janeiro mayor Eduardo Paes, and former governors Sérgio Cabral and Luiz Fernando Pezão. The fact-check says the circulating image was edited: Brazão’s face was added to a photograph originally taken in 2015, where it replaced federal deputy Pedro Paulo. The original photograph showed the named political figures together, but not Brazão. The evidence therefore distinguishes the authentic group photograph from the altered version used to support the claim. [S1] The excerpt identifies the result of the check but does not describe the specific technical steps used to compare the images. It reports that Comprova verified Brazão was absent from the original image; it does not provide further image provenance or analysis in the supplied text. [S1]

PolitiFactCrime & justice

All charges were dropped against Bill Cosby and he was granted an early release.

Publisher’s rating: False

Related reporting says Cosby was convicted in 2018, that the conviction was later overturned on legal grounds, and that he was released from prison in 2021 after serving nearly three years. That account does not say all charges against him were dropped; it describes a particular conviction being overturned, not every charge being dismissed. [S2] The reporting therefore supports a distinction the claim omits: release followed the reversal of his conviction, rather than a reported decision to drop all charges or grant early release. The excerpt attributes the reversal to a former prosecutor’s promise that Cosby would not be charged, which had led Cosby to give incriminating testimony in a civil deposition. It does not provide enough detail to establish whether the release was legally considered “early”; it does establish that he was released after serving nearly three years. [S2]