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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

El Detector / Univision NoticiasCulture & entertainment

Disney “acaba de publicar que no puedes entrar [a sus parques de Orlando y California] sin que tus hijos reconozcan que dentro del parque no le pueden llamar a un niño ‘él’ o ‘ella”.

Publisher’s rating: Falso

The claim was that Disney had just announced a rule barring people from its Orlando, Florida, and Anaheim, California, parks unless their children recognized that they could not call another child “él” or “ella.” The review says it found no such announcement or visitor restriction. It reports checking Disney’s corporate news pages, information for the Orlando and Anaheim parks, visitor conduct and attire rules, and Disney Parks Blog material. Its conclusion is that none showed a policy requiring visitors to use gender-neutral language or preventing entry because they used gendered pronouns. The review describes checking the posted rules for Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Disney’s Hollywood Studios, and Disney’s Animal Kingdom, along with Disney’s water-park rules and its parks’ help center. It says those sources contained no requirement about pronouns. For Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, it identifies a language rule against vulgarity, not a requirement to use neutral language. It also says its review of Disney Parks Blog posts from 2022 and the period covered in 2023 found no announcement imposing the claimed restriction. The confusion appears to stem from a different, documented change: Disney employees’ greetings to visitors. The review traces reporting about that change to a March 29, 2022, Twitter post by Christopher Rufo, accompanied by video of Disney diversity and inclusion manager Vivian Ware. In the video, Ware says employees were trained to replace greetings such as “ladies and gentlemen” and “boys and girls” with greetings such as “hello everyone” or “hello friends.” The review distinguishes that change in employee greetings from a rule governing how visitors speak or whether they may enter the parks.

YouturnCulture & entertainment

கேரளா ஸ்டோரி நடிகையான தேவ லீனா என்பவர் ஒரு இஸ்லாமியரை திருமணம் செய்து கொண்டு அந்த படத்தில் காட்டிய பொய்யான பின்னனியை முறியடிப்பார் என்று யாரும் எதிர்பார்க்கல..

Publisher’s rating: False

FACTLYCulture & entertainment

‘The Kerala Story’ actress Devoleena Bhattacharjee married a Muslim man after the release of her film

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The post claimed that Devoleena Bhattacharjee acted in ‘The Kerala Story’ and married a Muslim man after the film was released. FACTLY’s review says she did not act in the film and that she married Shanwaz Shaikh in December 2022, before the film’s release. The review therefore finds that the post combines a false description of her film role with an incorrect chronology. To check the image circulating with the claim, the review describes a reverse image search. It says the same photo had appeared on news websites in December 2022 as an image of Bhattacharjee with her co-artist and friend Vishal Singh at her Haldi and Mehendi ceremony. The review also reports that Singh posted the image on Instagram on 14 December 2022. It separately states that Bhattacharjee married her gym trainer, Shaikh, on 14 December 2022—so the image was not evidence of a post-release wedding. The review also checked whether Bhattacharjee was in the film’s cast list and says her name was not there. It notes that she later responded to a tweet about an interfaith relationship and the film, writing that her Muslim husband had watched the movie with her and appreciated it. Together, the reported image search, marriage date, cast-list check, and her own statement address the claim’s central points: she was not an actress in the film, and her marriage preceded its release.

FACTLYCulture & entertainment

This song is an anthem created by the New Zealand government

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim concerns a song performance in a viral video, said to be an anthem created by the New Zealand government and performed at a church called “Abadala.” The review reports that searches for an anthem matching that description found no credible information supporting its existence, and that it found no church by the claimed name. Those searches alone do not establish where the video came from, so the review also investigated the footage itself. The review says it identified Turkish text on the video reading “Saraybosna Fatih Sultan Mehmet Korosu Konseri” and a “TRT Canli” logo. Searches using those clues led to a Turkish Radio and TV Corporation video titled “Saraybosna Fatih Sultan Mehmet Korosu Konseri – 2011-05-29.” The review identifies that recording as a concert held on 29 May 2011 at the Hagia Irene Museum, also described as St. Irene Church, in Istanbul, Turkey. The review compares the viral footage with the concert recording and reports that the matching segment runs from 4:59 to 8:28. It identifies the performers as the Fatih Sultan Mehmet Choir, based in Bosnia, not New Zealand. This provenance contradicts the post’s presentation of the footage as a New Zealand government anthem performance. The review also says it found no credible evidence that the New Zealand government created the alleged anthem.