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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

Look At That Statue Girl Standing style With Her Leg Having Mobile Stick. Another Girl Having The Mobile With Different Fingering Style . This sculpture is in the Palitana Jain Temples located on Shatrunjaya hills near Palitana in Bhavnagar district, Gujarat, BHARAT (India) 🚩 ( nowadays).It is surprising that this sculpture is more than 1000 years old when there were no devices like mobile and tablet.It has been taught, then how did the sculptures of that time make all this in the idol and so accurately depicted 🤔 Our ancestors were probably more modern in imagination than us. Our ancestors and our culture were very divine.

Publisher’s rating: Fake

FACTLYCulture & entertainment

Image of Shahrukh Khan getting stopped at Mumbai airport on 12 November 2022

Publisher’s rating: MISLEADING

The post presents an image of Shahrukh Khan with his hands outstretched near security personnel as showing him being stopped at Mumbai airport on 12 November 2022. The review finds that the image instead shows him undergoing a regular security check at Kolkata airport on 27 March 2019. That difference in location and date means the image does not document the claimed Mumbai airport incident. To check the image’s provenance, the review says it found a video uploaded on 28 March 2019 titled “Shahrukh Khan at security hold checking.” It compared the viral image with the video’s visuals and concluded they were from the same incident. The review also says it found another video identifying Khan at Kolkata airport after a KKR versus KXIP match, and notes that he wore the same shirt in IPL match highlights as in the viral image. The review distinguishes this old Kolkata image from the separate Mumbai customs incident reported in November 2022. It says Khan was reportedly returning to Mumbai after attending a book fair in Sharjah, and quotes an official describing a customs-duty process that ended with a challan. The image’s older provenance, rather than the fact that a separate airport incident occurred, is the decisive evidence against the post’s identification.

dpaCulture & entertainment

Dit zijn originele cartoons van Ben Garrison

Publisher’s rating: De cartoons in de video zijn bewerkte tekeningen van Ben Garrison, waar antisemitische stereotypen aan zijn toegevoegd. Eén van de cartoons waar zijn naam opstaat is niet eens van hem.

The claim concerns cartoons shown in a circulating video and attributed to Ben Garrison. The review distinguishes between Garrison’s actual cartoons and versions altered to include antisemitic imagery. It reports that several images in the video are modified Garrison cartoons, while another image carries his name despite having a different creator. The review describes comparing images in the video with original versions. At the beginning, it identifies a modified version of a Garrison cartoon. The image shown at 0:05 originally depicted a pyramid representing the banking system, rather than the antisemitic stereotype in the video. The cartoon at 0:08, by contrast, was not originally Garrison’s: the review identifies John Pritchett as its cartoonist and says Garrison’s name was added. Accordingly, the claim that these are original Garrison cartoons is misleading for the video as a whole. Some images derive from his work, but they have been altered; at least one is attributed to him despite originating with Pritchett. The review also distinguishes these altered images from Garrison’s authentic cartoons, which it says are not openly antisemitic.

FACTLYCulture & entertainment

Pictures of Shahrukh Khan’s luxury Limousine in Dubai

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim concerns pictures circulated as showing Shahrukh Khan’s luxury limousine in Dubai, along with an accompanying assertion that only Khan’s family and Prime Minister Narendra Modi were allowed inside. FACTLY’s review says the pictures instead show the “American Dream,” a limousine designed by car customiser Jay Ohrberg in 1992 and based on 1976 Cadillac Eldorado limousines. The review concludes that the images do not depict Khan’s Dubai car. To check the pictures’ provenance, the review reports conducting a reverse image search. It found similar images in an Amar Ujala article from 2018, which identified them as the American Dream, and says other news websites published the same images. The review also consulted Guinness World Records, which described the American Dream as a 100-foot, 26-wheeled car and said it received the world’s-longest-car record in 1999. These details support identifying the pictured vehicle as the American Dream rather than Khan’s limousine. The review distinguishes that image claim from separate reporting about Khan’s car. It says Arab news websites reported that Khan and his wife arrived at an event in Dubai in their personal limousine in 2014, and Indian news websites reported that Modi used Khan’s car at a 2018 Commonwealth meeting in the United Kingdom. However, FACTLY says it could not find pictures or videos of Modi using the car and could not establish whether he did so. That unresolved point does not change its identification of the viral pictures as the American Dream.

FACTLYCulture & entertainment

PM Modi holding the photo frame of late Punjabi singer Sidhu Moose Wala

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim concerns a particular image circulated as showing Prime Minister Narendra Modi holding a frame with a photograph of late Punjabi singer Sidhu Moose Wala. FACTLY reports that it checked the image using reverse image search and located an earlier version on the Prime Minister of India’s official website. The review says that the original image was posted on 5 November 2015 and shows Modi with the frame at an event in New Delhi. The review identifies what the frame actually contains: specimens of Indian Gold Coins, not Moose Wala’s photograph. It also points to the event’s purpose, saying that the government launched gold-related schemes there. Modi shared the same image on Twitter that day with the caption, “A moment of pride… launch of Indian Gold coins, bearing the Ashok Chakra”. The image’s original-media provenance and the visible coins therefore contradict the circulated image’s presentation. The chronology is also incompatible with the claim as presented. FACTLY states that Moose Wala died on 29 May 2022, more than six years after the photograph was taken. The review describes the circulated version as morphed: it is not an authentic photograph of Modi holding a frame containing Moose Wala’s picture.

Fact Crescendo Sri LankaCulture & entertainment

වික්ටෝරියා වේල්ල නිර්මාණය කිරීමට එකදු යකඩ කම්බියක්වත් යොදා ගත්තේ නැද්ද ?

Publisher’s rating: Misleading

Fact Crescendo’s investigation concerns social-media posts claiming that Victoria Dam was built without a single iron bar. The excerpt describes the posts as circulating online and says readers had asked the publisher to check their accuracy. The article’s stated outcome is supported by its printed result, but the supplied text does not include the investigation’s complete explanation of the dam’s reinforcement, so the excerpt alone does not show the decisive evidence for that outcome. The article’s included technical description identifies Victoria as a double-curved arch dam, 122 metres high, with a reservoir capacity of 722 million cubic metres and eight spillway gates. Those details establish the structure and scale under discussion, but do not by themselves determine whether iron bars were used. The excerpt also notes that the dam interior is hazardous for public visits and that visitors would disrupt maintenance work, attributing this qualification to maintenance engineer Saliya Rathnayake.