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

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DoğrulaCulture & entertainment

“Sevişti bir bakir ile bakire, erkeğe milli dediler kadına fahişe” sözünün Cemal Süreya’ya ait olduğu iddiası

Publisher’s rating: Yanlış

The claim is that the saying “Sevişti bir bakir ile bakire, erkeğe milli dediler kadına fahişe” was written by poet Cemal Süreya. Doğrula reports that it searched Google Books and Google Scholar for the wording and checked *Sevda Sözleri*, the collection of Süreya’s poems; the review says it found no such quotation in that collection or in his works. The review’s conclusion is that the attribution is false. The investigation also traced the saying’s online circulation using searches on Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), and Google. It reports that the earliest X post it found was from January 2013, initially without an attribution, and that the earliest Facebook post it found was also unattributed. The review describes these as the oldest posts it could locate, not proof of who first composed the saying. According to the review, attribution to Süreya began appearing in July 2013, after the saying had circulated anonymously and had also been attributed to other people. This chronology supports the review’s conclusion that the social-media attribution is not evidence of authorship; the excerpt does not identify an alternative author.

dpa Deutsche Presse-AgenturCulture & entertainment

Das Foto zeigt den Castingshow-Juror Simon Cowell in Krankenbett.

Publisher’s rating: Die Website verkündet keinerlei Neuigkeiten über Cowell. Stattdessen verwendet sie ein manipuliertes Foto. Zuletzt wurde auf ähnlichen Fake-Seiten über den erfundenen Tod weiterer Prominenter berichtet.

The claim concerned a website post implying that Simon Cowell was seriously ill, using an image of him in a hospital bed. The post’s wording did not give a complete account: it began, “Very sad news,” named Cowell and said he had been “as..” without finishing the statement. The review reports that it found no corresponding bad-news reports about Cowell in reputable media. The image was not an authentic photograph of Cowell. The review says it traced the picture to an image of Blake Bargatze, and attributes the identification of that source image to the technology site Tech ARP. Bargatze’s photograph was taken while he was hospitalized in Florida in 2021 with COVID-19. Thus, the image’s hospital setting came from an earlier photograph of another person, not evidence about Cowell’s health. The review also compared the post’s implied timing with Cowell’s documented work schedule: an America’s Got Talent recording took place in Pasadena on September 20, 2023, and the show had planned finale broadcasts from September 25 to 27 with Cowell. It noted that this made the website’s suggestion that he was in Chicago the following day unlikely. Taken together, the review’s findings show that the post supplied neither a substantiated report about Cowell nor a genuine image of him in a hospital bed.

FACTLYCulture & entertainment

A French photographer in Gokarna clicks a picture resembling PM Modi’s face

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim concerns an image said to have been clicked by a French tourist near Gokarna, with coconut trees appearing to form Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s face. The review reports that reverse-image searches led to articles in Mint and Hindustan Times discussing the same image. Those articles, according to the review, identified it as an AI-generated work by artist Madhav Kohli, rather than a photograph taken by a tourist.

Fact CrescendoCulture & entertainment

Claim: actress sai pallavi not married yet

Publisher’s rating: ஃபேக்ட் கிரஸண்டோ ரேட்டிங்: FALSE

Fact Crescendo investigated a social-media rumor that actress Sai Pallavi had married. It concluded that the claim was false: the image used to suggest a wedding was actually taken at a May 2023 puja ceremony for SK 21, a film starring Sai Pallavi and Sivakarthikeyan. The review says the film’s title had not yet been announced and identifies Raaj Kamal Films International as its producer. The review traces the misleading impression to a cropped version of a photograph from the ceremony. It says SK 21 director Rajkumar Periasamy had shared photographs from the puja while wishing Sai Pallavi a happy birthday, and that one of those images was used to spread the marriage rumor. Fact Crescendo says it compared the image circulating online with the fuller photograph; the excerpt does not provide further details about how that comparison was conducted. The review also reproduces a statement attributed to Sai Pallavi on X. In it, she says an image from her film’s puja ceremony had been intentionally cropped and circulated, and refers to friends who are like family. This supports the review’s explanation that the image’s context was a film event, not a wedding. Its conclusion is that the marriage claim was not reliable.

El Detector / Univision NoticiasCulture & entertainment

Este video muestra una formación de aviones dibujando en el cielo la bandera de México.

Publisher’s rating: Fuera de contexto

The claim concerns a viral video presented as showing aircraft drawing Mexico’s flag during the country’s September 2023 independence celebrations. The original review says the footage instead shows a June 2023 Italian aviation event. It describes nine aircraft forming a green, white and red tricolor after a tenth aircraft flies vertically in front of them, and notes that the same footage circulated with messages such as “Viva México.” The review traced the footage to demonstrations for the centenary of Italy’s Military Aeronautics at the Mario De Bernardi military airport, in Pratica di Mare. Its comparison method included locating a June 2023 YouTube recording of an event at the airport and comparing the viral clip with a view of the same manoeuvre from another angle. The reviewer reports that, although the recordings are not identical, the same buildings and a pole are visible in both, and that those landmarks can also be recognized in Google Street View. The review further reports that an Instagram post dated June 17, 2023, showed the identical manoeuvre and identified the location and Italian centenary event. The Mexican independence parade did include aircraft painting the national colors, but the review distinguishes that event: it took place on September 16 in the urban setting of Mexico City’s Zócalo. Thus, the colors alone do not establish that the viral video depicts the Mexican parade; the review’s location and event evidence places that footage in Italy.

FACTLYCulture & entertainment

The video shows the trailer of an upcoming movie, ‘Emergency.’

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim concerns a video circulated as the trailer for Kangana Ranaut’s upcoming film ‘Emergency.’ FACTLY’s review says the clip was instead a seven-minute trimmed segment from the Hindi film ‘PM Narendra Modi,’ which was released in 2019. It therefore concludes that the video was not the ‘Emergency’ trailer. The review describes how it checked the video: it performed a reverse image search using key frames extracted from the circulated clip. The results, as reported by FACTLY, identified those frames as coming from ‘PM Narendra Modi.’ This directly addresses the disputed video’s provenance rather than relying on the films’ titles or subject matter alone. FACTLY also distinguishes the circulated clip from the actual film’s promotional material. It reports that ‘Emergency’ had yet to be released and says the film’s original teaser could be viewed separately. The review’s conclusion is that footage from ‘PM Narendra Modi’ was being presented as the trailer for ‘Emergency’; the supplied excerpt does not provide further details about who shared the video or where it first appeared.