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Video of Devraj, who was recently murdered in Udaipur, performing a religious song on stage.
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
The review says the stage performer was Sumit Mohan Lal Purohit, a student at Radhe Shyam School in Surat, not Devraj. It reports that the video was from the school’s Republic Day celebration on 26 January 2024. [S1]
“Olha a coragem do Anselmo Góis, especialmente porque escreveu em O Globo! Máfia carioca”
Publisher’s rating: Falso
“A Máfia do Rio e o Poder estão concentrados num único grupo mafioso, o grupo do Eduardo Paes”.
Publisher’s rating: Falso
ಕೋಲ್ಕತ್ತಾ ಹತ್ಯೆ ಘಟನೆಯು "ಅಮುಖ್ಯ" ಎಂದು ರಾಹುಲ್ ಗಾಂಧಿ ಹೇಳಿದ್ದಾರೆ.
Publisher’s rating: ತಪ್ಪು
Burkha-clad women stealing jewellery in France.
Publisher’s rating: MISLEADING
The review says the video is from November 2019 and shows women stealing from a jewellery store in Shamila Market, Sana’a, Yemen—not France. It concludes the claim that the incident was recent and took place in France is misleading.
ইন্দোনেছিয়াৰ এমাহ পুৰণি ভিডিঅ’ এটাক কলকাতাৰ ধৰ্ষণ-হত্যাৰ ভুক্তভোগীৰ পোষ্টমোৰ্টেম কৰা সময়ৰ দৃশ্য বুলি প্ৰচাৰ কৰা হৈছে।
Publisher’s rating: মিছা
കൊൽക്കത്തയില് കൊല്ലപ്പെട്ട ഡോക്ടറുടെ അവസാന നിമിഷങ്ങൾ
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
(Video) “Puente Alto, crimen por encargo, así está Chile”
Publisher’s rating: Falso
Video showing German woman named Marianne Bachmeier shooting the man who raped and murdered her seven-year-old daughter in court.
Publisher’s rating: MISLEADING
A Mumbai businessman has been sentenced to life imprisonment and fined Rs. 5 crore by a special NIA court for threatening to hijack a Jet Airways plane.
Publisher’s rating: MISLEADING
The review says Birju Kishor Salla was sentenced to life imprisonment and fined ₹5 crore by the NIA Court in June 2019 over the Jet Airways hijacking case. But on 08 August 2023, the Gujarat High Court acquitted him and set aside that conviction, making the claim misleading as a current account of the case.
Videos of Virat Kohli condemning the Kolkata rape case incident.
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
FACTLY reports that one video dates to 6 January 2017, when Kohli responded to the Bengaluru mass molestation incident, and the other uses audio manipulated from a 2022 RCB podcast. It says it found no official statement from Kohli regarding the Kolkata rape case.
এই ভিডিঅ’টোত আৰ জি কৰ চিকিৎসালয়ত সংঘটিত ধৰ্ষণ আৰু হত্যাকাণ্ডৰ ভুক্তভোগী গৰাকীৰ অন্তিম মুহূৰ্ত দেখা গৈছে।
Publisher’s rating: মিছা
Dr. Akash Nag, the Deputy Inspector General and Joint Director of the Crime Branch of CBI in Kolkata resigned because he felt unable to investigate the RG Kar hospital rape case impartially and sought to withdraw from the probe.
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
The review says the purported resignation letter is fake: it reports that the case was handled by CBI headquarters in Delhi and that there was no officer named Akash Nag. It also says the case was transferred to CBI on 14 August 2024, not investigated by the Kolkata Crime Branch.
Biden administration policies prompted a drop in the U.S. murder rate.
Publisher’s rating: Misleading
Medo do Marçal? Medo teria ele que já foi condenado por roubar aposentado, que responde e é investigado por homicídio
Publisher’s rating: Exagerado
De cada três pessoas que moram aqui [na cidade de São Paulo], uma já teve o celular roubado
Publisher’s rating: Verdadeiro