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

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YouturnCulture & entertainment

This wheel in the picture is used to detect the astronomy of the Mayans. Luck will come looking for us as soon as we see this. This was hidden from the enemy. But the country became very poor. Because this wonderful plate was given by God to give wealth to all. A photograph of this wheel is currently housed in a museum in London. It was spotted by an employee working there and photographed. He shared it with a friend and he got promotion and big cash help in a few days. Refusing to share it he suffered the biggest loss in the friend business and his health was also badly affected. So share this lucky wheel with close friends.

Publisher’s rating: Fake

FACTLYCulture & entertainment

Deepika Padukone in a t-shirt with ‘I STAND WITH INDIAN FARMERS’ slogan written on it

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim concerns a photo circulated as showing Deepika Padukone wearing a T-shirt with the words “I STAND WITH INDIAN FARMERS,” supposedly in support of farmers. FACTLY reports that it used a reverse image search to locate an earlier version of the photograph. In that original image, Padukone is wearing a plain black T-shirt, with no slogan; the review says the slogan in the circulating image was added through editing. The review identifies the photograph as one taken while Padukone was leaving an airport. It says the same image appeared in an Indian Express article dated 20 March 2018 and in an idiva article dated 17 March 2018. Those earlier appearances place the photograph before the farmers’ protests against the three Agriculture Bills described in the review, and the image itself does not show a farmers’ message. The decisive comparison is between the circulating version, which has the slogan, and the earlier photograph, which FACTLY describes as showing a plain black shirt. On the evidence provided, the image does not establish that Padukone wore the pro-farmer slogan.

FACTLYCulture & entertainment

ఎస్.పి.బాలసుబ్రహ్మణ్యం చికిత్స కోసం అయిన హాస్పిటల్ బిల్ 3 కోట్ల రూపాయలు పూర్తిగా కట్టని తరుణంలో హాస్పిటల్ వారు SPB పార్థివదేహాన్ని వారి కుటుంబ సభ్యులకు అందించలేదు, ఈ సమయంలో ఉప రాష్ట్రపతి వెంకయ్య నాయుడు గారి కూతురు జోక్యం చేసుకొని SPB పార్థివదేహాన్ని వారి కుటుంబ సభ్యులకు అందించేలా చూసారు

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

FACTLYCulture & entertainment

Inauguration ceremony of a cinema hall playing an Israeli film in Saudi Arabia

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The post presented a video as the inauguration of a Saudi cinema showing an Israeli film for the first time. It further alleged that Prince Mohammed bin Salman inaugurated the screening and that it was part of 50,000 screenings in collaboration with Israel. The review says the video circulated amid discussion of Arab nations normalizing diplomatic ties with Israel, but its investigation found that the footage showed a crowd outside a discount store in Hafar Al-Batin, Saudi Arabia—not a cinema event. To identify the footage, the review reports conducting reverse image searches on screenshots from the video. It found photographs with similar visuals in a 2019 Al-Marsad News article. According to the review’s account of that article, the images showed men and women gathered outside a discount store in Hafar Al-Batin, where discounts prompted people to compete to enter and take advantage of the offer. The review also points to a tweet posted on 20 April 2019 that it says showed video with similar visuals and described it as a sale in Hafar Al-Batin. Taken together, these comparisons identify the shared footage as a 2019 store-discount crowd, rather than evidence of the claimed cinema inauguration. The review says the incident had nothing to do with a cinema hall or Saudi Arabia’s ties with Israel.

FACTLYCulture & entertainment

Video of unlocking a 150-year-old Almirah in Kerala

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim concerns a video presented as showing someone unlocking a 150-year-old almirah in Kerala. FACTLY reports that the video instead shows the Roentgen’s Berlin Secretary Cabinet, an eighteenth-century piece of European furniture. The review identifies it as the work of Abraham and his son David Roentgen and says it was owned by King Frederick William II and is now in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The review describes its verification method: a reverse image search found similar visuals in a video on the Met’s official YouTube channel. That video was published on 25 October 2012 under the cabinet’s name. The Met’s description, as quoted in the review, identifies it as an important product of the Roentgen workshop and a notable achievement in eighteenth-century European furniture-making. The identification and provenance contradict the Kerala framing: the footage matches a named European museum object with a documented eighteenth-century history, not a 150-year-old almirah in Kerala. The review also notes that the Met said the cabinet had belonged to Frederick William II and that the museum displayed it during exhibitions. These details place the video in the context of the cabinet’s museum history rather than the claimed Kerala setting.

Deutsche Presse-AgenturCulture & entertainment

Um den 2009 gestorbenen US-Popstar Michael Jackson ranken sich zahlreiche Verschwörungsmythen. Einige behaupten beispielsweise, er habe seinen Tod vorgetäuscht, andere, er sei umgebracht worden. Manche sehen in ihm auch einen «Verschwörungsaufdecker». Auf Facebook kursiert ein Sharepic (hier archiviert) mit einem angeblichen Jackson-Zitat, das in diese Deutung passt. Demnach soll er vor Manipulation in Medien und Geschichtsbüchern gewarnt haben. «Alles was passiert und passiert ist, ist so, weil Verschwörer, größere Eliten, die Macht besitzen. Es ist Zeit für einen Wandel!», heißt es.

Publisher’s rating: Dem Zitat wurden Worte hinzugefügt, die Jackson so nicht gesagt hat. Des Weiteren wurde es teils falsch übersetzt und aus dem Kontext gerissen. In der Originalrede hat sich Jackson für die Anerkennung schwarzer Musiker ausgesprochen und sich gegen Vorwürfe verteidigt.

Fact CrescendoCulture & entertainment

Claim: Misleading on Arjun Sampath and Actor Surya

Publisher’s rating: Partly False

The review investigates a news card shared on Facebook in September 2020 that attributed two statements to Arjun Sampath and actor Surya: that Sampath would pay one lakh rupees to anyone who hit Surya with a slipper, and that Surya would give the chance to hit him to a poor student. The fact-check says it examined the circulated card, which carried a Clown Media logo, and searched for the named outlet and the claim on its Facebook page. It reports finding a page by that name but not the card or claim there. Evidence: “அதில், ‘’சூர்யாவை செருப்பால் அடித்தால் ரூ.1 லட்சம் பரிசு தருவேன் – அர்ஜூன் சம்பத்,’’ என்றும், ‘’என்னை அடித்தால் ரூ.1 லட்சம் கிடைக்கும் என்றால் அந்த வாய்ப்பை ஏழை மாணவனுக்கு வழங்க தயார்- சூர்யா,’’ என்றும் எழுதியுள்ளனர்.” and “Clown Media என்ற லோகோ உடன் இந்த நியூஸ் கார்டு வெளியிடப்பட்டிருந்தது. எனவே, Clown Media என்ற பெயரில் ஏதேனும் ஊடகம் செயல்படுகிறதா என தகவல் தேடினோம்.” The review’s key correction is that the slipper-reward remark was attributed to Dharma, identified as the state deputy general secretary of Hindu Makkal Katchi, not to the party’s founder, Arjun Sampath. It says people misunderstood or recirculated the remark as Sampath’s. The review also reports that Sampath issued an explanation on September 19, 2020. Evidence: “நடிகர் சூர்யாவை செருப்பால் அடித்தால் பரிசு என்று அர்ஜூன் சம்பத் நேரடியாக அறிவிக்கவில்லை. மாறாக, இந்து மக்கள் கட்சியின் மாநில துணை பொதுச் செயலாளர் தர்மா என்பவர், இவ்வாறு பேசியுள்ளார்.” and “இதுபற்றி செப்டம்பர் 19ம் தேதியே அர்ஜூன் சம்பத் விளக்கம் அளித்திருக்கிறார்.” On the alleged reply from Surya, the review says it could find no report that he had offered to give a poor student the chance to hit him. It concludes that the viral account connected Sampath and Surya to words and an exchange that the review could not substantiate as theirs. Evidence: “நடிகர் சூர்யா, தன்னை அடிக்கும் வாய்ப்பை ஒரு ஏழை மாணவனுக்கு வழங்க தயார் என்று கூறியதாக, எங்கேயும் செய்தி காண கிடைக்கவில்லை.” and “இந்து மக்கள் கட்சியின் மாநில துணை பொதுச் செயலாளர் தர்மா என்பவர் பேசியதன் பேரில், அர்ஜூன் சம்பத் மற்றும் சூர்யாவை தொடர்புபடுத்தி இந்த வதந்தியை சிலர் உருவாக்கி, பகிர்ந்துள்ளனர்.”