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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

Fact CrescendoCulture & entertainment

துல்கர் சல்மான் நடிப்பை பாராட்டிய உதயநிதி ஸ்டாலின்

Publisher’s rating: ஃபேக்ட் கிரஸண்டோ ரேட்டிங்: FALSE

A news card claimed that Udhayanidhi Stalin praised Dulquer Salmaan’s performance in Lucky Baskhar. Fact Crescendo says the DMK IT wing and News Tamil 24×7’s editorial team told it the report was fake, and concludes the card was fabricated.

PA MediaCulture & entertainment

A statue of children’s author Roald Dahl, which has a resemblance to Jimmy Savile, has been put on show at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park to mark 100 years since the publication of Dahl's first book.

Publisher’s rating: The image was generated with an AI tool by a Reddit user two years ago, and was intended to resemble Savile. A satirical Facebook group joked that it was intended to be an image of Roald Dahl and invented a centenary celebration, as the author’s first book was published in 1943.

يوب يوبCulture & entertainment

نشرت حسابات وصفحات على منصة التواصل الاجتماعي إكس مقطع فيديو ادعت إنه يظهر امرأة سعودية تدعى أم طلال تحقق حلمها بالرقص مع فنانها المفضل في موسم الرياض

Publisher’s rating: مضلل

The review says the video was not filmed in Saudi Arabia: it identifies it as footage from a Ross Lynch concert in Hammersmith, London, and says it appeared on his Instagram and YouTube pages. It also reports finding the clip from another angle on TikTok.

PA MediaCulture & entertainment

A series of apparently unconnected videos on YouTube and TikTok have featured clips of well-known British celebrities apparently disparaging Sir Keir Starmer on what is claimed to be live television. The videos have included comments from comedians Ricky Gervais and Rowan Atkinson, as well as actor Danny Dyer and chef Jamie Oliver, mixed with heavily opinionated commentary from an anonymous narrator.

Publisher’s rating: Although the videos are often given titles that imply recent developments such as “5 minutes ago”, the footage in all cases is archive material that predates Sir Keir’s election as Prime Minister. Some of the celebrities’ criticisms have been taken out of context and were actually aimed at previous governments and, in one case, a law from 1986. Most of the footage is also not taken from live television broadcasts, despite claims in the title.