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

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Belarusian Investigative CenterCulture & entertainment

В Польше снесли памятник на братской могиле солдат Красной армии

Publisher’s rating: Иван Эйсмонт акцентировал внимание, что памятник стоял на месте захоронения погибших. Это неправда. На момент его сноса – 5 мая 2023 года – захоронения там уже не было более 70 лет

FACTLYCulture & entertainment

Image of Syrian singer Sariya al-Sawas with her four children born to different husbands from various nationalities

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The post identifies the woman in the image as Syrian singer Sariya al-Sawas and claims that the four children shown with her were born to husbands of different nationalities. It assigns the children to Emirati, Lebanese, Yemeni and Saudi husbands. The review concludes that the claim is false: the original image showed three children, and a boy was digitally added to make the viral version show four. [S1]

dpaCulture & entertainment

Bei der Krönung von Charles III. zum König von England saß ein geheimnisvoller Gast im Publikum, der einen Anhänger mit einem "Q" darauf um den Hals trug.

Publisher’s rating: Ein Foto, das einen Teilnehmer der Krönungsfeier mit einem QAnon-Abzeichen zeigen soll, ist eine schlichte Fälschung.

The claim concerns a photograph circulated as showing a mysterious guest at Charles III’s coronation wearing a Q-shaped pendant. The review places the image at the coronation celebration in Westminster Abbey and identifies the long-haired man with a moustache and tinted glasses as Welsh composer Sir Karl Jenkins, who was seated beside composer Andrew Lloyd Webber. It says the photograph was manipulated, rather than evidence that a QAnon supporter attended with such a badge. The review describes checking the image against a BBC television broadcast. A video excerpt distributed by the New York Post shows Jenkins during a camera pan across the congregation; the review says the footage shows no Q-marked badge on his order ribbon. It identifies the item on the ribbon as the order Jenkins received when he was knighted in 2015. The review also cites Jenkins’s own post-coronation TikTok video. In it, he displays the ribbon and its accompanying order and explains that it was given to him when he was made a knight. The review adds that Jenkins was invited because a piece he composed was performed during the celebrations. This supplies context for his presence and the visible decoration, while the broadcast footage and Jenkins’s video address the specific claim about the supposed Q pendant.