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Culture & entertainment fact checks

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

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FACTLYCulture & entertainment

The granddaughter of Elvis Presley singing ‘It’s Now or Never’.

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The review addresses a social-media post claiming that Elvis Presley’s granddaughter is the girl singing “It’s Now or Never” in a video. It identifies the performer as Angelina Jordan, a Norwegian singer—not Presley’s granddaughter—and says the video shows her singing the song at a show at Fredricksten Castle in Halden, Norway. To identify the singer, the review says it ran a screenshot from the video through Google Reverse Image Search. The search led to a similar image on the See it Live website, which the review cites as identifying the girl as Jordan and describing her as a 13-year-old singer from Norway. The review also notes that Jordan won “Norway’s Got Talent” in 2014. The review separately checked the claimed family relationship against the names of Presley’s granddaughters. It reports that they are Riley Keough, Harper Vivienne Ann Lockwood, and Finley Aaron Love Lockwood, and that none is Angelina Jordan. Together, the identification of the performer and the listed family names contradict the post’s identification of the singer as Presley’s granddaughter.

FACTLYCulture & entertainment

The son of a martyred Army officer is singing song

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim concerned a video of a child singing that circulated with a story that his father, an Army officer, had died fighting militants and his mother had died of shock. The review identifies the child as Ghulam-e-Murtaza, a social media personality from Pakistan, rather than the son of a martyred Army officer. It reports that he is the son of Pakistani singer Nadeem Abbas, who was still alive. [S1]

Deutsche Presse-AgenturCulture & entertainment

Kurz nach Ausstrahlung der achten und finalen Staffel der Fantasy-Serie «Game of Thrones» soll der US-Sender HBO mit den Dreharbeiten zur Vorgeschichte des Epos begonnen haben. Auf einer Internetseite wird jetzt behauptet, dass es ein erstes Foto zu dieser neuen Serie gibt. Dazu steht: «Es zeigt einen mysteriösen Charakter, der auf dem Rücken eines Pferdes eine Winterlandschaft mit einer Stadt im Hintergrund überblickt.»

Publisher’s rating: Das Foto stammt nicht von den Dreharbeiten zur Vorgeschichte, sondern ist ein Bild aus Staffel 7 von «Game of Thrones».

Fact CrescendoCulture & entertainment

Claim: Thiruvalluvar original photo found in Jaffna Public Library

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The review investigated a Facebook post claiming that an image of Thiruvalluvar was his “original photo,” recovered from Jaffna Public Library after the library was burned. It says the post was shared by Sasi Kumar on June 23, 2019, and that people were circulating it as genuine. The claim was specifically about the depicted image’s identity and alleged provenance, not simply whether the library held old material. [S1: “தீ வைத்துக் கொளுத்தப்பட்ட இலங்கை யாழ்ப்பாண நூலகத்தில் இருந்து கிடைத்ததாம்”] The review gives a chronological reason to doubt that the picture could be a photograph from Thiruvalluvar’s lifetime. It notes that Thiruvalluvar is considered to have lived more than 2,000 years ago, while an early successful attempt at developing a camera occurred in 1816. On that chronology, a photograph taken during his lifetime could not be the image described in the post. [S1: “திருவள்ளுவர் வாழ்ந்த காலம் 2000ம் ஆண்டுகளுக்கு முற்பட்டது என்று சொல்லப்படுகிறது.”] [S1: “கேமராவைக் கண்டறியும் ஓரளவுக்கு வெற்றிபெற்ற முதல் முயற்சி என்பது 1816ம் ஆண்டு நடந்தது.”] The review also describes an image-search check: it uploaded the circulated picture to Yandex and reports identifying it as an illustration made by the Tirunelveli South India Saiva Siddhanta Publishing Society. It characterizes the picture as an imagined depiction of Thiruvalluvar, rather than an original photograph, and says the claimed Jaffna-library provenance was false. The excerpt does not provide a catalogue record or other independent library documentation, so the provenance conclusion here is the review’s reported finding. [S1: “இந்த படம் திருநெல்வேலித் தென்னிந்திய சைவசிந்தாந்த நூற்பதிப்பக் கழகத்தார் வரைந்த ஓவியம் என்பது தெரிந்தது.”] [S1: “இது யாழ்ப்பாணம் நூலகத்தில் பாதுகாத்து வைக்கப்பட்டது எனும் தகவலும் தவறு என்று உறுதி செய்யப்படுகிறது.”]