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நசீருதீன் ஷா ஒரு முக்கியமான கேள்வி கேட்டார்!!!
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
Não pode Carnaval na rua, mas dentro do Bradesco tá tendo #carnaval #carmaval2021 #carnavaldapandemia
Publisher’s rating: Falso
கங்கனா போன்ற பெண்கள் எனது நிகழ்ச்சிகளில் குறைந்த ஊதியம் வாங்கிக்கொண்டு நடனமாடுகிறார்கள்
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
The claim concerns a viral post attributing to singer Rihanna the statement that “women like Kangana” dance at her events for low pay. Vishvas News describes the post as a screenshot presented as a tweet and says its investigation found that Rihanna had not posted it. The review identifies the post’s sharer as Facebook user Satnam Singh Khalsa. To check the attribution, the review says it searched online using keywords about the alleged tweet but found no media reports about it. It also examined Rihanna’s official Twitter account and did not find the post. The review notes that the screenshot’s text was in Hindi, contained numerous errors, and showed no date or time; it treated these as reasons the screenshot could not establish that the tweet was genuine. The review also reports that it consulted Smita Srivastava, who handles entertainment news at Dainik Jagran in Mumbai. According to the review, Srivastava said the tweet was not on Rihanna’s Twitter account and had been made using photo-editing tools. Vishvas News concludes that the viral tweet was fabricated, rather than an authentic statement by Rihanna.
Video of people in Indian flag dress code doing Surya Namaskar in Japan.
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
The claim concerns a video presented as showing people in Indian-flag-themed dress performing Surya Namaskar in Japan. FACTLY identifies the footage as showing an event in Mongolia instead: a Community Reception & Yoga Event organised by the Art of Living during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit in May 2015. It says the event took place at Buyant Ukhaa Stadium. The video therefore depicts a real performance, but the claimed location is wrong. To investigate, the review reports that it ran screenshots from the video through Google Reverse Image Search. It found that some social-media users had described the same footage as related to Mongolia. The review then searched using keywords and found an extended version posted on the Narendra Modi and PMO India YouTube channels in May 2015. The Narendra Modi channel’s title identifies the footage as being from the Mongolia event. The review also points to tweets by Narendra Modi and PMO India about the event. Taken together, its account connects the circulating clip to the Mongolia performance through matching footage and contemporaneous official-media material, rather than relying only on a general resemblance or a reference to yoga. The review’s conclusion is that the video is not from Japan.
Bollywood singer Caralisa Monterio’s tweet on Hindu Mukt India
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
The claim concerns a screenshot presented as a tweet by singer Caralisa Monterio about “Hindu Mukt Bharat,” including a line about her supposed reaction to Hindus being killed. FACTLY investigated whether the tweet was authentic and whether the Aam Aadmi Party had supported it. The review reports that the purported tweet was not found on Monterio’s official Twitter timeline, and describes visible differences between the screenshot and a normal Twitter post: its alignment was different, the bar for quote-tweet and like counts was missing, and it did not identify the device from which it was posted, although the review says she usually tweeted from an Android device. The review also reports a direct denial from Monterio. In response to a user sharing the screenshot, she called it fake and said a case had been filed. FACTLY further places the AAP post in time: it says that the tweet shown in the image was posted on 20 December 2016. These findings address both the alleged authorship of Monterio’s statement and the impression that the AAP post was current support for it. Taken together, the review’s cited checks and Monterio’s denial support its conclusion that the screenshot attributed to her was altered, rather than an authentic tweet. The AAP post’s 2016 date is relevant context for the accompanying image, but the excerpt does not describe any further verification of the image’s circulation or the case Monterio said had been filed.
Rihanna’s tweets about Kangana Ranaut and Bollywood
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
Singer Jovit Baldivino is dead.
Publisher’s rating: Fake
The supplied evidence is a calendar-style list of historical events and notable deaths, not Vera Files’ fact-check or reporting about the claim when it was made. It identifies Jovit Baldivino as a Filipino singer and actor and lists his death in 2022. That is later than the review date supplied with the claim, so this excerpt does not establish that he was dead at the time of that review. It does establish that he subsequently died. Because the excerpt is not the original fact-check, it does not show what claim Vera Files investigated, what checks it performed, or the evidence behind its assessment. The available material therefore supports the limited chronology above, but cannot independently establish the circumstances of the original claim or verify the publisher’s assessment.
Immer wieder werden Schriftstellern oder Philosophen Zitate zugeschrieben, die aber gar nicht von ihnen stammen. So wird etwa derzeit in einigen Facebook-Postings (hier archiviert) behauptet, der Spruch «Wo Recht zu Unrecht wird, wird Widerstand zur Pflicht» stamme von Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Publisher’s rating: Im Gesamtwerk des Dichters ist der Satz nicht nachgewiesen. Laut dem Präsidenten der Goethe-Gesellschaft gibt der Spruch dessen politisches Denken auch nicht richtig wieder. Das angebliche Zitat kursiert schon lange und wurde auch anderen Berühmtheiten in den Mund gelegt.
The claim concerns Facebook posts attributing the saying «Wo Recht zu Unrecht wird, wird Widerstand zur Pflicht» to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The review’s investigation examined Goethe’s collected works and consulted Stefan Matuschek, president of the Goethe Society in Weimar. It reports that Matuschek knew of no evidence that Goethe had said it, and that the saying was not found in the collected works. The search covered the 154-publication Weimar edition, which includes literary works as well as scientific writings, diaries and letters. Searches for “Unrecht” and “Widerstand” returned hundreds of results, but none in a form resembling the alleged quotation. The review also notes two documented Goethe passages that it says conflict with the saying: one says it is better for injustices to occur than for them to be remedied unjustly; another counsels submitting to the law rather than having a world without law. The review qualifies what can be inferred about Goethe’s views: Matuschek said Goethe’s opinions changed over his long life, while identifying those two passages as representative of his political thinking after the French Revolution. It also traces the saying beyond the Goethe attribution: researcher Gerald Krieghofer found it attributed to Lenin and, especially, Bertolt Brecht, and reported that anti-nuclear opponents coined it in the 1970s. The review therefore distinguishes the unsupported attribution to Goethe from the longer circulation and changing attributions of the saying.
Photo of the pop singer Rihanna posing with Pakistan National flag
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
The claim concerned a social-media photo said to show pop singer Rihanna posing with Pakistan’s national flag. The review places the image’s circulation in the wake of Rihanna’s tweet supporting farmers protesting India’s new farm laws, but says the photo itself had been edited. Its reverse-image search traced the image to an earlier photograph of Rihanna with the West Indies national flag. The review identifies the original photograph’s setting as an ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 match in England. It reports that Rihanna was cheering for the West Indies and attended the West Indies–Sri Lanka match at Chester-Le-Street on 1 July 2019. The key distinction is therefore not merely which flag appears in the image: the review says the Pakistan flag was substituted into a photograph originally showing the West Indies flag. To support that account, the review says the original image appeared in a SAMAA sports-channel article and in a New Indian Express gallery article, both dated 2 July 2019. It also points to the ICC’s official Twitter account and the West Indies cricket board sharing images of Rihanna at the match. These references support the review’s conclusion that the circulating Pakistan-flag image was edited; the supplied excerpt does not provide the underlying image files or describe a separate technical image-forensics analysis.
पाकिस्तानी झंडे के साथ पॉप स्टार रिहाना की फोटो वायरल
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
ಇಂಡಿಯಾ ಗೇಟ್ನಲ್ಲಿ ಸ್ವಾತಂತ್ರ್ಯ ಹೋರಾಟಗಾರರ ಹೆಸರನ್ನು ಕೆತ್ತಲಾಗಿದೆ.
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
ಲೈಫ್ ಟ್ಯಾಂಕ್ ಸಹಾಯದೊಂದಿಗೆ ಈಜುವ 5000 ವರ್ಷ ಹಳೆಯ ಪುರಾತನ ಭಾರತೀಯ ಪ್ರಾತಿನಿಧ್ಯ.
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
Schriftsteller und andere Berühmtheiten müssen immer wieder mit angeblichen Zitaten dafür herhalten, Meinungen und Haltungen anderer auszudrücken. Auch der Weimarer Dichterfürst ist davor nicht gefeit: Der Spruch «Wo Recht zu Unrecht wird, wird Widerstand zur Pflicht» soll angeblich (hier archiviert) von Johann Wolfgang von Goethe stammen.
Publisher’s rating: In Gesamtwerk des Dichters ist der Satz nicht nachgewiesen. Dem Präsidenten der Goethe-Gesellschaft zufolge würde der Spruch dessen politisches Denken auch nicht richtig wiedergeben. Das angebliche Zitat kursiert schon lange und wurde auch anderen Berühmtheiten in den Mund gelegt.
The claim concerns the saying «Wo Recht zu Unrecht wird, wird Widerstand zur Pflicht» and its attribution to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The review checked Goethe’s collected works and consulted Stefan Matuschek, president of the Goethe Society in Weimar. It reports that the saying does not appear in the 154-publication Weimar edition, which includes literary works as well as scientific writings, diaries and letters. Searching for the terms “Unrecht” and “Widerstand” produced hundreds of results, but none in a form resembling the alleged quotation. Matuschek knew of no evidence that Goethe wrote the saying. The review instead cites two passages from Goethe’s works that it says conflict with the sentiment attributed to him: one says it is better for injustices to occur than to remedy them unjustly; another says it is better to suffer injustice than for the world to be without law, and urges obedience to the law. Matuschek cautioned that Goethe’s views changed over his long life, but said those passages represent his political thinking after the French Revolution and that he valued order and opposed violent upheaval. The review also places the saying’s circulation beyond this attribution: it reports that variants have been used by different political groups and attributed to Lenin and, especially, Bertolt Brecht. Researcher Gerald Krieghofer’s findings, as reported in the article, trace the saying to anti-nuclear opponents in the 1970s. The article also gives an earlier, distinct formulation about resistance as a duty in Pope Leo XIII’s 1890 writing; that date is 58 years after Goethe’s death. These findings support the conclusion that the saying is not established as Goethe’s, while showing that versions and attributions have circulated widely.
1300-year-old bicycle sculpture created on the walls of Panchavarna Swamy temple in Tamil Nadu
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
The claim concerns a photo said to show a 1300-year-old bicycle sculpture on the walls of Panchavarna Swamy temple in Tamil Nadu. FACTLY’s review identifies the pictured sculpture instead as part of Pura Dalem Jagaraga Temple on Bali, Indonesia, and says it has no connection to India. The review describes a reverse-image search that found a similar image on Tripadvisor, where it was identified as a sculpture on Pura Dalem Jagaraga Temple. It also reports finding other photographs and a video showing a similar sculpture at that temple. These comparisons link the viral image to the Indonesian site rather than the Tamil Nadu temple named in the claim. The article gives historical context for the carving: it says the sculptures at Pura Dalem Jagaraga are a testament to the Dutch invasion in 1849. That account does not support the claimed age or location; the review specifically concludes that the bicycle sculpture in the photo is not 1300 years old.
गणतंत्र दिवस परेड में शामिल दरगाह से जुड़ी झांकी उत्तरप्रदेश की है, जब प्रदेश में समाजवादी पार्टी की सरकार थी.
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
Video yang diklaim sebagai video prosesi pemakaman penyanyi Spanyol Julio Iglesias yang meninggal karena Covid-19
Publisher’s rating: Keliru