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Vishvas NewsCulture & entertainment

যোৱাৰ আগতে দেশৰ প্ৰতি আপোনাৰ প্ৰেম আৰু নিৰপেক্ষ সাংবাদিকতাৰ #Vinoddua বিনোদ দুয়াৰ অন্তিম ভিডিঅ’টো আমি কেতিয়াও পাহৰিব নোৱাৰিম|| আপোনাৰ নাম ইতিহাসত সোণালী আখৰত লিখা হ’ব|

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

Vishvas NewsCulture & entertainment

যোৱাৰ আগতে দেশৰ প্ৰতি আপোনাৰ প্ৰেম আৰু নিৰপেক্ষ সাংবাদিকতাৰ #Vinoddua বিনোদ দুয়াৰ অন্তিম ভিডিঅ’টো আমি কেতিয়াও পাহৰিব নোৱাৰিম|| আপোনাৰ নাম ইতিহাসত সোণালী আখৰত লিখা হ’ব|

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

Vishvas NewsCulture & entertainment

बॉलीवूड सेलिब्रिटींनी जनरल बिपिन रावत यांना श्रद्धांजली वाहिली नाही.

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim concerned whether Bollywood celebrities had paid tribute to General Bipin Rawat after the December 8 helicopter crash that killed him, his wife and 13 service members. The review describes a viral post asserting that celebrities, including Akshay Kumar and Salman Khan, had not shared even one social-media post about Rawat. It concludes that this claim was false, reporting that many Bollywood celebrities had posted tributes on their social-media accounts. To check the claim, the review says it searched Google using relevant keywords and found a Dainik Jagran report dated December 9, 2021. That report named Anil Kapoor, Salman Khan, Akshay Kumar and Anupam Kher among celebrities who had expressed grief over Rawat’s death. The review then says it checked those celebrities’ official Twitter accounts and found multiple tweets related to Rawat. These checks address the claim’s specific assertion that there were no celebrity posts, rather than merely establishing that the crash had occurred. The review also reports that it consulted Smita Srivastava, a Dainik Jagran journalist covering entertainment in Mumbai. According to the review, she said the viral claim was false and that many Bollywood celebrities had paid tribute through social media. The supplied excerpt does not reproduce the tweets, identify their exact contents, or give a full list of celebrities, so those details cannot be independently assessed from this text alone.

dpaCulture & entertainment

Film uit 1963 heet the Omicron Variant.

Publisher’s rating: Twee van de drie posters zijn niet van bestaande films of serie. "The Omicron Variant" is ook geen titel van een bestaande film of serie. 'Omikron' is een letter van het Griekse alfabet. Het is dus niet zo vreemd - en zeker geen bewijs dat de varianten gepland zijn - om referenties aan Omikron, ouder dan 2021, te vinden.

The claim concerns images shared on Facebook as posters for a film and a series supposedly made in 1963, with titles referring to “Omicron.” The post presented them as evidence that the pandemic and its variants had been planned in advance. The review distinguishes the three posters rather than treating the set as authentic: one is a real 1963 film poster, but the title of that film is *Omicron*, not *The Omicron Variant*. The review traces the first alleged *The Omicron Variant* poster to a Spanish-language poster for *Phase IV*, a 1974 film. It says a Twitter user made the altered image and identified it as a joke, including in a further explanation that the film did not exist. The second poster with the same title was based on a poster for *The Cyborg 2087* (1966) and was made as an alteration by director Christopher Miller. Thus neither of the two images bearing the exact alleged title establishes that a 1963 film or series by that name existed. The genuine 1963 poster is for the Italian science-fiction comedy *Omicron*, about an alien infiltrating Earth. The review also reports that IMDb had no film or series with the exact title *The Omicron Variant*; the matching entries it found were later episode titles for podcasts or current-affairs shows. The real 1963 film therefore does not substantiate the claim that *The Omicron Variant* was a film from that year, or that the pandemic was planned.

Vishvas NewsCulture & entertainment

आता कॅट-विक्कीच्या रिसेप्शन पार्टीत सलमान खानने गाणे म्हंटल्याचा दावा करणारा एक व्हिडिओ व्हायरल होत आहे.

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The review examined a video shared as a leaked clip from Katrina Kaif and Vicky Kaushal’s reception, with the claim that Salman Khan sang there. It reports that Facebook user Shoaib Jamshed posted the video on December 10 with the caption “Leaked video of the reception.” The investigation concluded that the clip was not from the couple’s reception but showed Salman Khan performing at the 2019 IIFA awards in Mumbai. To trace the footage, the investigators say they used InVID to extract video frames and then searched those frames with Google reverse image search. They found the clip on a YouTube channel dated November 8, 2019, predating the wedding by about two years. They also located the original video on the IIFA awards’ Facebook page; the review says it was uploaded on October 14, 2021, and depicts Salman performing during IIFA 2019 in Mumbai. The review further reports that senior Bollywood journalist Parag Chachekar told them the viral video had no connection to Katrina Kaif’s wedding.

Fact Crescendo CambodiaCulture & entertainment

នេះ គឺ​ជា​រូបថត​មួយ​សន្លឹក ដែល​មហាជន​ភាគ​ច្រើន​តែង​តែ​យល់​ច្រឡំ និង​ខ្លះ​ទៀត​លើក​ដាក់​ថា ជា​នាង​ទាវ ដែល​តាម​ការ​ពិត​ជាក់​ស្ដែង រូបថត​មួយ​សន្លឹក​នេះ គឺ​ជា​ស្រី​កំណាន់​របស់​មន្ត្រី​បារាំង​ម្នាក់​ទៅ​សោះ

Publisher’s rating: False

The claim concerns a black-and-white photograph of a woman in traditional dress. It identifies her as Ti Sao, said to have been an 18-year-old mistress of a French official, while other posts identified her as Teav from the Cambodian story Tom Teav. The review says the circulating post attributed its account to a description in a book by Gregor Muller. The review’s investigation instead identifies the woman as Sok, a royal ballet dancer, and says she was neither Teav nor the alleged mistress Ti Sao. “The photo with the claim had been shared more than 1,000 times by Khmer-speaking Facebook users” and the post said it was based on “a description on page 139 of a book written by Gregor Muller and published in 2006.” (S1) The review reports using Google reverse-image search to locate the same photograph and information about it. It found a November 28 Facebook post identifying the woman as Sok, and a comment by Yannine Poc, who said Sok was her great-grandmother and had married French naval officer Paul Le Faucheur. The review also checked a 2019 biography of Thiounn Mom, which reproduced the photograph and described Sok as a royal ballet dancer and Le Faucheur’s wife. These sources support the review’s identification of the woman as Sok rather than either figure named in the claim. (S1) The review’s account of the family connection is that Sok and Le Faucheur had a daughter, Malis, who married a member of the Thiounn family; their descendant Thiounn Mom was therefore Sok’s great-grandson. The review presents the Facebook family clarification and the biography as supporting evidence, while noting that its own attempt to obtain a verbal explanation from Yannine Poc had not received a reply. Its conclusion rests on the identification in the biography and the family account, not simply on the photograph’s traditional clothing or colonial-era setting. (S1)