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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

dpaCulture & entertainment

"Die Toleranz wird ein solches Niveau erreichen, dass intelligenten Menschen das Denken verboten wird, um Idioten nicht zu beleidigen" ist ein Zitat von Fjodor Dostojewski.

Publisher’s rating: Es gibt keine Belege dafür, dass Dostojewski diesen Satz geschrieben oder gesagt hat. Der russische Schriftsteller Fjodor Dostojewski starb 1881. Es ist höchst unwahrscheinlich, dass mehr als ein Jahrhundert nach seinem Tod ein Zitat von ihm auftaucht, das vorher nicht bekannt oder irgendwo zu finden war.

Deutsche Presse-AgenturCulture & entertainment

Im ZDF-Fernsehgarten wurde der Hitlergruß gezeigt - aus Solidarität mit der Ukraine

Publisher’s rating: Falsch

The claim concerned a circulating image said to show people giving a Hitler salute during ZDF’s Fernsehgarten “in solidarity with Ukraine.” The investigation concludes the image was taken out of context: it shows a mental-training exercise during the 5 June 2022 broadcast, not a Hitler salute. The review identifies the programme as an edition featuring host Andrea Kiewel and mental coach Thomas Baschab.

Fact CrescendoCulture & entertainment

Claim: actor vijay not copied dulquer salman for his varisu movie poster

Publisher’s rating: ALTERED

The review examined a social-media post alleging that Vijay’s Varisu poster copied an image from an Otto clothing advertisement featuring Dulquer Salmaan. It reports that the post was shared on Facebook on June 21, 2022, and that the poster was being circulated as evidence of copying. The review’s conclusion was that the comparison image had been altered, rather than showing that the film poster copied an existing advertisement. To check the image’s history, the reviewers say they ran a reverse-image search on Dulquer Salmaan’s photograph. They found people sharing the Otto-style image only after the Varisu poster appeared, and say they found no earlier record of Otto publishing that advertisement. They also searched Otto’s website and did not find the alleged advertisement there. The review notes that Otto ads displayed small product-category text, whereas the disputed image included “The Boss Returns,” which it identifies as Varisu’s tagline. The review further describes signs of image manipulation: the tagline appeared to have been moved from its original position, the area beneath the poster—where film crew names appeared—had been obscured by the Otto-style image, and comparing the two pictures suggested that only the head and name differed. The reviewers say they located an Otto website photo of Dulquer standing at a beach and concluded that his head had been cut from that image and edited onto the Varisu poster. As additional context, the review reports that Dulquer shared the Varisu poster to wish Vijay a happy birthday. These findings support the review’s conclusion that the alleged copying evidence was fabricated by editing the poster.