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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

YouturnCulture & entertainment

அஜித்தை கவர்ந்த பகாசூரன். மகளைப் பெற்ற ஒவ்வொரு தந்தையும் தியேட்டருக்கு சென்று பார்க்க வேண்டிய திரைப்படம் பாகாசூரன் இந்திய சினிமாவில் மிக முக்கியமான திரைப்படம் இது நடிகர் அஜித்குமார்

Publisher’s rating: Fake

Boatos.orgCulture & entertainment

Carro alegórico da escola de samba grande Rio, que homenageava o diabo pegou fogo na abertura dos desfiles nesta sexta-feira 17 de fevereiro de 2023,  com Deus não se brinca

Publisher’s rating: Falso

The claim says that a float from Grande Rio, supposedly honoring the devil, caught fire during the opening of the 2023 Carnival parades. Boatos.org examined the circulating video and the captions assigning it to Grande Rio and that event. Its conclusion is that the video does not show a 2023 fire involving Grande Rio, and that the claim of a divine punishment is also unsupported. The review says it found no recent reports of an incident involving Grande Rio’s float in 2023, reasoning that a large fire such as the one shown would quickly become news. It also describes the viral message as vague and alarmist, without a reliable source confirming its account. The excerpt does not identify a specific search procedure or provide independent documentation of the absence of reports, so those points should be understood as the review’s stated reasoning. The review identifies the footage instead as showing a fire during the 2007 champions’ parade. It says the float belonged to Unidos da Tijuca, not Grande Rio, and that the school’s samba-enredo was “fotografia”; calling the float a homage to the devil was, according to the review, an interpretation by the person who posted the video. It further reports that the fire took about seven minutes to control and that nobody was injured. Thus, the footage is real, but its year, school attribution, and religious interpretation in the viral claim are misleading.

Fact CrescendoCulture & entertainment

A U.S.-based journalist and news anchor Taing Sarada apologized a Cambodian tycoon Leng Navatra.

Publisher’s rating: False

The claim concerned a social-media post purporting to be from Taing Sarada, a U.S.-based journalist and anchor for The Cambodia Daily Khmer. It said he was apologizing to Leng Navatra, chairman of Galaxy Navatra Group, for reporting that implicated Navatra in an alleged money-laundering scheme. The review describes the post as circulating on Facebook and says its captured text presented an apology in Sarada’s name, referring to “all mistakes I had made” and to a report alleging wrongdoing. The review says the post was published by an account using Sarada’s name and photo, rather than establishing that Sarada wrote it. (S1) Fact Crescendo reports that it checked the allegation by speaking directly with Sarada by phone. According to the review, he said the account was fake and the claim did not originate with him. It also reports that Sarada’s own Facebook account had denied the claim, and that he said he had never written an apology to Navatra after publishing the investigative report. These statements directly address the central question of authorship and whether Sarada apologized. (S1) The review places the disputed post in the context of earlier reporting by The Cambodia Daily Khmer about alleged money laundering involving Navatra and says Sarada faced harassment after that report appeared. It further reports that, on February 8, Sarada posted that creating fake Facebook accounts was not an effective way to manipulate the report. On the evidence described in the review, the purported apology came from an impersonating account, not Sarada. (S1)

FACTLYCulture & entertainment

Visuals of fireworks displayed in Kerala on 30 January 2023

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim concerns a video said to show a fireworks display in Kuravilangadu, Kerala, on 30 January 2023. FACTLY reports that the video was not footage of that event: it describes the clip as a digital fireworks simulation created in 2013 and says the viral post falsely presented it as being from Kerala. To investigate the clip’s origin, FACTLY says it performed a reverse image search on selected keyframes. That search led to a clearer version of the video on a YouTube channel named “mediabyjj,” uploaded in 2013. The review identifies it by the title “New Years 2013 – Synchronized Epic Music (Heart of Courage) – FWSim Fireworks Display – HD.” The review also cites the video description, which says the display was digitally simulated using FWSim. FACTLY says a search about FWSim identified it as fireworks simulation software. Taken together, the reported match to the earlier upload and its description support the conclusion that the circulating visuals were a simulation, not footage of fireworks displayed in Kerala on the claimed date.