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台灣事實查核中心Culture & entertainment

【錯誤】網傳「威廉王子皇室婚禮(本片得來不易)…不為人知的入場片段實在是太可愛了！打破對王室傳統看法見識王室也有開朗活潑的一面尤其是婚禮現場！」

Publisher’s rating: 錯誤

The claim presents a cheerful wedding entrance video as an authentic, little-known scene from Prince William and Catherine Middleton’s royal wedding. The Taiwan FactCheck Center investigated the video itself, including its ending card and the identity of its characters. Its review reports that the ending displays “Life’s for Sharing,” “T-Mobile,” and a T-Mobile logo, then describes searching for the displayed YouTube address and finding the channel’s video, “The T-Mobile Royal Wedding.” The review says it compared that video with the circulated clip and found their length and content matched. 【S1】 The review also cites the description beneath the T-Mobile video, which calls it a “Royal Wedding Dance” celebrating William and Kate’s marriage with “royal look alikes”—people resembling members of the royal family—and music by East 17. That evidence identifies the footage as an advertisement featuring impersonators, not actual royal family members. The review further reports that the video was uploaded on April 15, 2011, while William and Kate’s wedding took place on April 29, 2011. The clip therefore predates the real wedding it is claimed to show. The review concludes that the misleading post paired an advertising video with text presenting it as genuine wedding footage. 【S1】

NewscheckerCulture & entertainment

ভারতীয় সিনেমার বিশিষ্ট নক্ষত্র আমির খান এক গাড়ি ভর্তি আটার প্যাকেট বস্তিবাসীদের জন্য পাঠান। প্রত্যেকে এক কেজি করে আটা পায় এবং ব্যাগ খুলে দেখা যায় ভিতরে ১৫হাজার টাকা রয়েছে।

Publisher’s rating: Partly False

Fact CrescendoCulture & entertainment

Claim: they were not vijay fans waiting in queue

Publisher’s rating: False

The claim concerned a Facebook post showing women in a queue, said to be waiting to book tickets for Master, a film starring Vijay. The post identified the location as Pandharapuram and described the women as preparing to make advance bookings. The review says the image was presented with that claim, but that neither the film’s release nor ticket bookings had begun at the time. Its account places the claim against the backdrop of the film’s postponed release during the COVID-19 shutdowns.【S1】 The review identifies a different explanation for the scene: women had queued at ration shops to have an insert attached to their existing ration cards, during a process carried out in Tamil Nadu several years earlier. It concludes that the ration-shop photograph was misrepresented as a ticket-booking queue. The excerpt does not describe a specific image-search or other independent verification method, so the explanation here is limited to the investigation and evidence the review reports.【S1】

Fact CrescendoCulture & entertainment

Claim: Latha Rajinikanth hasn’t denied to hand over Raghavendra Mandapam

Publisher’s rating: False

The review investigated a viral claim that Latha Rajinikanth said Raghavendra Mandapam would be unavailable for three months because maintenance was under way. The claim circulated in a composite social-media image alongside reports about Chennai seeking marriage halls for COVID-19 isolation facilities. The review says Rajinikanth had offered the venue for COVID-19 prevention use in early April, before the disputed posts appeared. The viral image attributed the maintenance announcement to Latha, but the review found no such announcement on either Rajinikanth’s or Latha’s social-media pages. [S1]

Divya ChandraCulture & entertainment

Aamir Khan donated Rs 15000 in wheat sacks to the underprivileged

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The review examined a viral video that linked Aamir Khan to a distribution of wheat bags and claimed that recipients later found Rs 15,000 in the sacks. It concluded that the attribution to Khan was false, while distinguishing that conclusion from whether an anonymous donation had actually taken place: the report says the incident’s authenticity remained unverified. The review reports that Khan denied being the donor in a Twitter post, and that his PR team also told The Quint he had nothing to do with it. It also contacted Sameer Khan, the man narrating the story in the video. He said he was repeating what he had heard, had not personally witnessed the incident, and had not named Aamir Khan in the video. Thus, the narration did not establish that Khan was the donor. The review further traced versions of the video to TikTok users and reports that the clips it examined did not name Aamir Khan. It found that a Sandesh report placed the alleged incident in Rander, Surat, but said that report did not name a donor. A local journalist told The Quint that residents he spoke with said no such donation had been made; the journalist also said the donor and any recipient were unknown. The evidence supports rejecting the claim that Khan made the donation, but does not establish who, if anyone, made the alleged donation.

FACTLYCulture & entertainment

Video of Alia Bhatt arriving at the hospital after Rishi Kapoor’s death

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim concerned a video said to show Alia Bhatt arriving at a hospital to support Ranbir Kapoor after his father Rishi Kapoor’s death. FACTLY’s review identifies the footage as old rather than related to Rishi Kapoor’s death: it says the video was taken in 2018 at Raj Kapoor’s funeral and later specifies that the event was Krishna Raj Kapoor’s funeral. The review’s account links the footage to that earlier funeral, not to a hospital arrival after Rishi Kapoor’s death. (S1: “The video was taken in 2018 at Raj Kapoor’s funeral.”; “The video was uploaded on YouTube in 2018 with the description that it was taken at Krishna Raj Kapoor’s funeral.”) The review describes its checks: screenshots from the circulated video were searched using Google Reverse Image Search, which returned a similar video on YouTube. It says that YouTube video contains visuals from the beginning of the circulated clip and was uploaded in 2018 with a description identifying Krishna Raj Kapoor’s funeral. Keyword searches also found another video from that funeral showing the same visuals of Alia Bhatt, Karan Johar and Aamir Khan. (S1: “When the screenshots of the video were run through Google Reverse Image search, a similar video was found in the search results.”; “So, when searched with keywords, another video from Krishna Raj Kapoor’s funeral was found which has the same visuals of Alia Bhatt, Karan Johar and Aamir Khan as shown in the posted video.”) FACTLY adds that other visuals in the circulated clip also appeared in newspaper articles about Krishna Raj Kapoor’s funeral. It concludes that the visuals belong to the earlier 2018 event and are not related to Rishi Kapoor’s death. The distinction is central: the footage was presented as a later hospital arrival, but the review’s described matches point to a funeral video from 2018. (S1: “Other visuals in the posted video can be also found in the newspaper articles related to the Krishna Raj Kapoor’s funeral.”; “So, the visuals are not related to the recent death of Rishi Kapoor’s.”)

Fact CrescendoCulture & entertainment

Claim: This is not the last moment video of Rishi Kapoor

Publisher’s rating: False

Fact Crescendo investigated a video shared as showing Rishi Kapoor’s final moments. Its review says Kapoor died on April 30, 2020, and that the video began circulating with claims he had been happy even as he was dying. The review’s central finding is that the video was not filmed before his death: it was recorded in February, months earlier. To establish when the footage originated, the review reports using reverse-image search and finding the video on YouTube. It says a user named Dheeraj Kumar Sanu had posted it on February 3, 2020. The review also links that date to Kapoor’s hospitalization: it reports that Kapoor had shared on Twitter that he was admitted to hospital on February 3 and 4, and says the video was taken then by a fan. The review adds that the person seen in the video later shared a photograph with Kapoor on Instagram. It describes the footage as an earlier fan recording that was recirculated after Kapoor’s death with a misleading description. The evidence presented therefore addresses the timing of this specific video, rather than whether it depicts Kapoor at all.

The QuintCulture & entertainment

Video shows Rishi Kapoor in hospital moments before he died

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim concerned a video of Rishi Kapoor singing on a hospital bed, circulated as footage from shortly before his death on 30 April. The Quint reports that the footage was instead recorded during an earlier hospital admission in February, when Kapoor was at Max Hospital in New Delhi after complaining of a pollution cough. The investigation describes several clues that prompted further checking: the healthcare worker in the video was not wearing a mask, and was wearing a sweater. The Quint says a reverse-image search led to the same video on YouTube, uploaded on 28 February. A keyword search also found February news reports that Kapoor had been hospitalised in Delhi that month. The report says its entertainment reporter confirmed the February admission, and that hospital officials confirmed the video was shot while Kapoor was admitted in February. These checks support the distinction at the centre of the claim: the video was genuine footage of Kapoor in hospital, but it was not from his final moments before death; it was older footage recirculated with that description.

NewtralCulture & entertainment

La periodista Julia Otero ha dicho “me chirría todo lo que huele a España”

Publisher’s rating: Falso

The claim attributes to journalist Julia Otero the words “me chirría todo lo que huele a España,” as part of a story about being asked by Luis del Olmo to open a programme with “buenos días España.” Newtral says the quotation circulated on social media but that Otero did not say it. The article points to an interview on Onda Cero with Carlos Alsina on 24 April. In the account it gives, Otero recalled that when she first worked with Del Olmo on *Protagonistas*, he asked her to begin with “Buenos días España soy fulanita.” She replied that she could not say “Buenos días España soy Luis del Olmo,” because only Del Olmo could say it. The article connects this anecdote to Del Olmo’s familiar programme opening, “Buenos días España les habla Luis del Olmo.” Newtral contrasts that account with the viral wording: it says the phrase about everything that smells of Spain does not occur at any point in that conversation. It also reports that Otero denied the attribution on her social-media account and objected to an invented quotation being put in quotation marks and attributed to someone. Thus, the interview anecdote supplies a plausible source for the distorted story, but the article’s account does not support the specific words attributed to her.