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Kids-In-Mind.comCulture & entertainment

MPAA rating of PG-13 has been assigned for “violence, some bloody images, and sexual material.”

Publisher’s rating: The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes a few suggestive dance sequences, several kissing scenes, discussion of love and infidelity, an explosion in a war scene that leaves a man badly scarred, several deaths by gunshot and a slashed throat, a near death by a falling stone, a gunshot wound to the leg, and many arguments, threats of violence, and some mild language.

Vishvas NewsCulture & entertainment

भारतरत्न गान कोकीळा लता मंगेशकर ह्यांचे नुकतेच दुःखद निधन झाले, आता त्यांचा एक जुना व्हिडिओ व्हायरल होत आहे, लोकं दावा करत आहे कि हा लता मंगेशकर चा शेवटचा व्हिडिओ आहे. 1:24 मिनिटांच्या ह्या व्हिडिओ मध्ये लता मंगेशकर आपल्या फॅन्स ला प्रणाम करताना दिसत आहे.

Publisher’s rating: MISLEADING

FACTLYCulture & entertainment

William Shakespeare’s quotation about expectations and life advice

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

FACTLY examined a social-media post attributing a quotation about expectations and life advice to William Shakespeare. Its conclusion was that there is no evidence Shakespeare wrote those words. The review distinguishes the quotation’s general themes from its actual wording: it reports that Snopes found some ideas similar to Shakespeare’s, but judged the language, prose and cadence unlike his writing. These points address the attribution itself, rather than whether the quotation offers sound advice. The review says it searched the internet using relevant keywords and found that the quotation’s second part, beginning “Before you speak, listen…,” could have been taken from “Before You,” a poem by inspirational writer William Arthur Ward. FACTLY presents this as a possible source, not as a proven origin for the entire quotation. For a further check on the Shakespeare attribution, FACTLY reports that PolitiFact asked Abbie Weinberg, a research and reference librarian at the Folger Shakespeare Library. The review quotes her as saying the quotation is “definitely not a Shakespeare quote!” It also notes that Shakespeare wrote about “Life is short” and “expectations,” but says his writings on those topics were different from the lines in question. The review therefore concludes that the attribution is unsupported; the excerpts do not establish who first assembled or circulated the full quotation.

FACTLYCulture & entertainment

Video showing the last moments of the late veteran singer Lata Mangeshkar

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim concerned a circulating video said to show Lata Mangeshkar’s final moments before her death. The review reports that she died at Mumbai’s Breach Candy Hospital on 6 February 2022, but identifies the circulated footage as an older Facebook live interaction rather than a recording of her final moments. It says that interaction took place on 4 January 2017. To identify the footage, the investigators performed a reverse image search using screenshots from the circulated video. They found a video with similar visuals on Mangeshkar’s official Facebook page. The review describes that video as showing her speaking live with fans, first paying respects to music director R.D. Burman and then answering their questions. This provides a specific earlier source and date for the visuals, rather than merely a resemblance to unrelated footage. The review also compared the circulated video’s visuals with a video that Bombay Times tweeted on 7 February 2022, described as showing Mangeshkar’s final moments before she was admitted to Breach Candy Hospital. Based on the comparison, it concluded that the circulated video was not that final-moments footage. Its conclusion rests on the older Facebook video’s provenance and date, as well as the visual comparison—not on evidence that the circulated clip was recorded at the hospital.

dpaCulture & entertainment

The Simpsons voorspelden truckerskonvooi in Canada.

Publisher’s rating: Nee, The Simpsons deden dit keer geen juiste voorspelling. Twee afleveringen van de serie, uit 1999 en 2019, zijn samengevoegd om die illusie te wekken.

The claim concerns a video circulating on social media that appeared to show The Simpsons anticipating the truckers’ convoy that travelled to Ottawa in late January 2022. The review examined whether the footage was an actual prediction. It describes the video as showing Homer and Bart in a truck, followed by a cartoon version of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau slipping out of his office window. The investigation found that these scenes came from two separate episodes, rather than from one scene depicting the convoy: “Maximum Homerdrive,” from 1999, and “D’oh Canada,” from 2019. (S1) The review traced the truck-driving footage to “Maximum Homerdrive.” It describes that episode’s plot: Homer takes over a truck delivery after the driver dies, and he and Bart encounter other truckers after Homer reveals their secret about the truck’s automatic driving system. The review says those are the truck scenes used in the edited video. The Trudeau footage came from the later episode “D’oh Canada,” which the review says made fun of Canada; Trudeau’s character slips out of the window because Lisa wants to ask him about the SNC-Lavalin scandal. (S1) The review also documents how the edited clip was presented as current. It identifies a YouTube upload dated 29 January 2022 whose description linked the video to the Ottawa truck protest. But it reports that the longer truck-scene video had already been online since 10 July 2021, and that an archived version from 28 January 2022 used the title “Homer as a truck driver.” The evidence therefore places the apparent prediction in the later editing and retitling of footage from episodes made years apart, not in an original scene depicting the 2022 convoy. (S1)