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Culture & entertainment fact checks

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

3,169 published reviews in this topic

YouturnCulture & entertainment

லண்டன் SOAS பல்கலைகழகத்தில் ஆதி தமிழர், தமிழ் இனத்தின் பெருமை திருவள்ளுவர் ஐயா உருவ சிலை நிறுவப்பட்டுள்ளது. SOAS பல்கலைகழகத்திற்கு உலகத் தமிழர்கள் சார்பாக நன்றிகள் பல.

Publisher’s rating: True

NewtralCulture & entertainment

Monjas bailando una canción de Britney Spears

Publisher’s rating: Falso

The claim concerns a viral video presented as showing nuns dancing to Britney Spears’s “Toxic.” Newtral’s investigation says the video was edited: the footage of the nuns is real, but the song attributed to it is not. The article describes the viral version as showing the nuns dancing and recording with their phones, then states that they were not actually dancing to a Britney Spears song. To locate the unaltered version, Newtral says it searched Google in English for “nuns jumping” and found the original video in the video results. In that version, the nuns dance to “Gory do gory,” a dance-pop song performed by the Polish Christian children’s group Male TGD. This comparison identifies the mismatch: the viral post paired the footage with “Toxic,” while the version Newtral found uses a different song. The article also reports contacting the video’s author, Aleksander Bochenek. He said he was cycling in Kraków, came across the concert, and decided to record it. That account supports the provenance of the footage, while the original-video comparison supports the finding that the Britney Spears audio was not the music heard in the recorded scene.

Fact CrescendoCulture & entertainment

Claim: American Cartoonist Ben Garrisons depiction on India

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

Fact Crescendo examined cartoons circulating online that were attributed to American cartoonist Ben Garrison and purported to depict Indian politics or the state of Indian media. The review describes examples attributed to opposing political viewpoints: one presented as a cartoon about the Congress party, another as one about the BJP, and a further image said to criticize Indian media. It says such images had been shared under Garrison’s name for several years and were being treated as authentic in political discussions. The review’s central evidence is a denial posted on Garrison’s official Twitter account on October 22, 2017. The post said he had never drawn cartoons about Indian politics and that cartoons bearing his signature in circulation were not his. Fact Crescendo also reports that AFP Fact Check had examined the images and identified them as fake. On the basis of these points, the review concludes that the cartoons it investigated were falsely attributed to Garrison. The review distinguishes the falsely attributed images from a cartoon it says was actually drawn by Amal Medhi, whom it identifies as the real artist behind the original cartoon. It says the versions shared under Garrison’s name were altered to serve the preferences of Congress- and BJP-supporting audiences. The supplied excerpt does not reproduce the examined images or provide the linked AFP report, so those materials cannot be independently assessed from this excerpt alone.

Fact CrescendoCulture & entertainment

Claim: Queen Elizabeth served food for Kamaraj

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The review examined a photograph shared with the claim that Queen Elizabeth served food to Kamaraj. It says the image shows the Queen, Kamaraj and others gathered near a table, which was presented as evidence of her serving him. The investigation instead traced the photograph to Bosotto Bros, a Chennai bakery, which kept collections of old photographs: the article describes this image as one of those “பொக்கிஷங்களில் ஒன்றுதான் மேற்கண்ட புகைப்படமும்” (“one of those treasures is the photograph above”).

FACTLYCulture & entertainment

India’s Independence day celebrations at Trafalgar Square, London.

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

FACTLY’s review addresses a video circulated as showing India’s Independence Day celebrations at Trafalgar Square in London. Its investigation identifies the depicted location instead as the Altare della Patria building at Piazza Venezia in Rome, Italy, and distinguishes the colors in the video from India’s flag: the green, white, and red display represents Italy’s flag. These findings challenge both the claimed location and the claimed national celebration. [S1]

factcrescendo.comCulture & entertainment

ദുൽഖർ സൽമാൻ കൊണ്ടോട്ടിയിലെ സേവാഭാരതി ക്യാമ്പിൽ എത്തി

Publisher’s rating: ഈ പോസ്റ്റിൽ നൽകിയിരിക്കുന്ന വാർത്ത പൂർണ്ണമായും വ്യാജമാണ്. ദുൽഖർ സൽമാൻ കൊണ്ടോട്ടിയിൽ സേവാഭാരതിയുടെ ക്യാമ്പുകൾ സന്ദർശിച്ചിട്ടില്ല. സേവാഭാരതിക്ക് കൊണ്ടോട്ടിയിൽ ക്യാമ്പ് ഇല്ല