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В России почитают ветеранов ВОВ больше чем в других странах
Publisher’s rating: Материальный эквивалент благодарности для ветеранов в РФ один из самых маленьких среди постсоветских стран.
Kristian Nairn, the actor who played Hodor in ‘Game of Thrones’, has transitioned to a woman.
Publisher’s rating: False
ප්රවීණ ගායන ශිල්පී වික්ටර් රත්නායක අභාවප්රාප්ත වූ බවට ව්යාජ පුවතක් !!
Publisher’s rating: False
The review investigated social-media posts saying that veteran singer Victor Rathnayake had died. It reports that the posts circulated on the night of May 10 and says the publisher looked for coverage of the death in mainstream media but found no evidence that such a report had been published. The review then checked Rathnayake’s social-media accounts and found a post on his official Facebook account saying that reports of his death were false. The review also describes a possible source of confusion: singer Victor Wijayantha had died in Canada on May 10. It suggests that some people may have mistaken news of Wijayantha’s death for news about Rathnayake. Its conclusion is that Rathnayake was alive and well, citing his own statement as evidence.
विविध सोशल मीडिया प्लॅटफॉर्मवर एक छायाचित्र वेगाने व्हायरल होत आहे. चित्रात एक व्यक्ती महात्मा गांधींच्या पुतळ्यावर बसलेली दिसत आहे. सोशल मीडिया यूजर्स हा फोटो राजस्थानचा असल्याचा दावा करत जातीयवादी दावा करत व्हायरल करत आहेत.
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
The viral post claimed that a photograph of a person sitting on a Mahatma Gandhi statue was taken in Rajasthan and shared it with a communal framing. Vishvas News’s investigation concluded that the photograph was from Amethi district in Uttar Pradesh, not Rajasthan. Its account also notes that the person’s religion was not independently verified, so the reporting establishes the image’s location but does not establish the person’s religious identity. [S1]
Het concert van Deep Purple in Kiev gaat gewoon door, ondanks de oorlog
Publisher’s rating: False
Mickey Mouse maakt in deze cartoon Zwitserse kaas met zijn geslachtsdeel.
Publisher’s rating: De suggestie dat het hier om een echt fragment uit een Disney-tekenfilm ging, is fout. Het fragment is samengesteld uit verschillende beelden afkomstig uit de Disney-tekenfilm ‘Steamboat Willie’.
The claim concerns a 20-second cartoon shared on Facebook, which appears to show Mickey Mouse making Swiss cheese with his genitals while other characters watch. The review investigates whether this was an authentic excerpt from a Disney cartoon, rather than whether the depicted actions occur in an unaltered Disney scene. It identifies the footage as a montage made from material in *Steamboat Willie*, not a genuine scene from that film. [S1: “Het gaat om een 20 seconden durend fragment waarin duidelijk te zien is hoe Mickey Mouse aan de lopende band Zwitserse kaas maakt met zijn geslachtsdeel.”; “Het fragment is samengesteld uit verschillende beelden afkomstig uit de Disney-tekenfilm ‘Steamboat Willie’.”] The review describes tracing the clip’s source through a search engine to Imgur, where it says the video had originally appeared as a GIF by B3ta. It also reports using Google Lens to compare figures and poses in the clip with *Steamboat Willie*. The review says that the footage contains recognizable elements from different moments in the 1928 cartoon—including Mickey’s hip movements, a surprised Pete, a laughing parrot, and Minnie turning a goat’s tail—combined into a new scene with additions of the creator’s own. [S1: “Na wat research in een zoekmachine leidt de site Imgur tot de bron van het filmpje, dat oorspronkelijk een GIF was van B3ta.”; “Na een controle met de app Google Lens wordt duidelijk dat de figuren en hun houdingen in het filmpje allemaal voorkomen in Steamboat Willie”] The review further describes a background detail that it attributes to Snopes: a poster bears the abbreviations “HSE” and “REGS,” which the review associates with the UK Health and Safety Executive and its workplace rules. It notes that the organization was established in 1975, long after *Steamboat Willie*. Together with the montage evidence, this detail supports the conclusion that the shared clip is a later fabrication, not an authentic excerpt from the 1928 cartoon. [S1: “De afkorting 'HSE' op de poster links achter Boris Boef zou staan voor Health and Safety Executive, een Britse overheidsorganisatie die regels maakt voor een gezonde en veilige werkomgeving en 'REGS' staat voor hun regelgeving voor op de werkvloer.”; “En dat terwijl de organisatie pas in 1975 opgericht werd.”]
Filipinos didn't eat galunggong (roundscad) during Marcos Sr.'s time
Publisher’s rating: False
Nostradamus hat diesen Text geschrieben.
Publisher’s rating: Es gibt keinerlei Hinweise, dass der Text von Nostradamus stammt.
The claim concerns a text circulated as a Nostradamus prediction of the COVID-19 pandemic. The article identifies the text as an English-language social-media image and describes its alleged forecast: a “twin year (2020),” a “queen (Corona),” an origin in China, and a plague affecting Italy. It says the text was being shared as a prediction of the pandemic.
Video of a newly wed couple slapping each other on the stage
Publisher’s rating: MISLEADING
The claim concerns a video presented as showing a real newlywed couple slapping each other on a stage. FACTLY reports that the footage instead comes from a scripted drama made for entertainment. The review says it noticed an “AVI Music” watermark in the circulating visuals and used that clue to find the longer video on AVI Music’s YouTube channel. It also points to comedy hashtags associated with that video and a description naming the actors and technicians involved in making it. Those details support the conclusion that the footage was staged, rather than documentation of a real incident. The review adds that AVI Music’s administrators told Vishvas News that they made the video for entertainment. Thus, the identification of the footage as scripted rests on the original-channel version and its production details, as well as the administrators’ reported confirmation—not simply on the appearance of the clip. The supplied excerpt does not give the video’s recording date or further details about the scene.
Recent news of Shah Rukh Khan being detained at an airport in US
Publisher’s rating: MISLEADING
The claim concerns a news report being shared as evidence that Shah Rukh Khan had recently been detained at a U.S. airport. FACTLY identifies the report as old: it says the detention shown was at Los Angeles International Airport in August 2016, rather than a recent incident. The review describes how it traced the circulated video. It noted the News 24 logo, then searched YouTube using relevant keywords and found what it identified as News 24’s original report about Khan’s detention at Los Angeles International Airport. It also points to news articles from the time and says Khan expressed disappointment on Twitter. These details connect the viral item to the 2016 event, not to a new detention. FACTLY adds that the U.S. ambassador to India and the U.S. Department of State later apologised for the detention. It notes that Khan had also been detained at American airports in 2009 and 2012, and says it found no news of another foreign-country detention since 2016. The review’s conclusion rests on the age and provenance of the shared report: the footage concerns a past incident, so presenting it as recent is misleading.
शाहरुख खान को अमेरिका एयरपोर्ट पर क्यों रोका गया।
Publisher’s rating: False
อย่าลืมไปอุดหนุนหนังสือเล่มนี้นะครับ “KING OF GΔY” นะครับ។
Publisher’s rating: Altered
The post paired a Thai caption urging people to buy a book called “KING OF GΔY” with three photos that appeared to show Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni in the book. Fact Crescendo’s investigation focused on whether those images and the depicted book were genuine. It says it used Google Reverse Image Search to trace the photos and found that the original images did not show the king and did not depict a book with that title. The investigation traced the images to different originals: one showed a cover for “The Deep and Rich History of Temmie,” another showed British writer Stella Berry, and a third showed writing in a book. It also reports that its search did not find a book titled “KING OF GAY” online. On this evidence, the photos presented in the post were digitally edited; the review does not establish that the depicted book was a real publication.
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A banda Led Zeppelin fez menção ao ex-presidente Lula em letra de música de rock
Publisher’s rating: Falso
Video shows ‘Kacha Badam’ singer Bhuban Badyakar doing his government job in the Railways as a guard.
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
