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Photo of Nita Ambani drinking the world’s most expensive water
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
The claim concerns a photo circulated as showing Nita Ambani drinking water that cost 40 lakh rupees per bottle. FACTLY reports that the image was altered: its comparison traced the underlying picture to an Indian Premier League match in 2015, where Ambani was drinking from a regular water bottle. The review notes that the original image shows her drinking water, but says it contains no indication that the water was the world’s most expensive. [S1: “A photo through a post is being widely shared on social media claiming that Nita Ambani drinks the world’s most expensive water that costs 40 lakh rupees per bottle.”; “According to the website, the picture was taken during Indian Premier League Season 8 in 2015. Though Nita Ambani could be seen drinking water from a bottle, there is no mention of her drinking the most expensive water.”] The review describes a reverse image search that found a similar image on a website, then compares that image with the circulated photo. It reports that the circulated version had been altered to include another water bottle. As visual details supporting the comparison, FACTLY points to a watch, a red thread on one hand, and a blue band on the other appearing in both images. [S1: “When reverse image search is done on the photo, a similar image was found on a website.”; “When the image from the website is compared with the photo, one can see that the photo was morphed to include another bottle of water. In both the photos, a watch, red thread on one hand, and a blue band on the other can be seen.”] To distinguish the altered image’s implication from the water identified as record-setting, the review cites Guinness World Records: the named bottle, ‘Tributo Modigliani, Acqua di Cristallo,’ sold at auction for $60,000 in 2010. It also cites the company’s website, which describes the bottle as a limited edition of one worldwide. Those details identify the record-setting bottle, but do not establish that Ambani was drinking it; the image comparison instead supports the review’s conclusion that the shared photo was morphed. [S1: “According to the Guinness World Records, ‘Tributo Modigliani, Acqua di Cristallo’ is the most expensive water bottle. It was sold at an auction for $60,000 in 2010.”; “Limited edition, only 1 bottle worldwide.”; “To sum it up, this photo shared as Nita Ambani drinking the world’s most expensive water has been morphed.”]
Die "Süddeutsche Zeitung" widerspricht sich selbst.
Publisher’s rating: Es handelt sich nicht um eine geänderte Überschrift, sondern um die Titel von zwei verschiedenen Beiträge auf der Seite der «Süddeutschen» - ein Video und einen Newsticker-Eintrag. Diese haben unterschiedliche Schwerpunkte, beruhen aber auf denselben Zahlen einer bayerischen Behörde: Demnach ist unter der Zahl der Corona-Toten in Bayern mit knapp 30 Prozent ein vergleichsweise hoher Anteil vollständig Geimpfter. Die Mehrheit der Verstorbenen ist jedoch nicht geimpft gewesen. Beide Überschriften treffen somit inhaltlich zu, wirken aber ohne den Kontext der Beiträge in der Gegenüberstellung widersprüchlich.
The dispute concerned two Süddeutsche Zeitung headlines seen together in Google search previews: “Many COVID deaths in Bavaria were fully vaccinated” and “Many COVID deaths were unvaccinated.” The review says they were not successive versions of one headline. One linked to a video on the newspaper’s website; the other to a news ticker item. The articles had different emphases, but drew on the same figures from Bavaria’s State Office for Health and Food Safety (LGL).
कंगना जैसी बहादुर औरते मिलती तो बाबर आगे न बढ़ पाता। लेकिन अफसोस करीना जैसी ज्यादा मिली जो घुटने टेक के तैमूर पैदा करती रही
Publisher’s rating: False
ಪುನೀತ್ ರಾಜ್ಕುಮಾರ್ ಅವರ ಸಾವಿಗೆ ಸಂಬಂಧಿಸಿದಂತೆ ಡಾ. ದೇವಿ ಶೆಟ್ಟಿ ಅವರ ಸಂದೇಶ.
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
FACT CHECK: කලාකරු සරත් චන්ද්රසිරි මහතා අභාවප්රාප්ත වූ බවට පළ වූ පුවත අසත්යයයි!
Publisher’s rating: False
The claim concerned social-media posts saying that Sri Lankan artist and actor Sarath Chandrasiri had died. The review investigated those posts while Chandrasiri was receiving hospital treatment. It reports that the Colombo National Hospital told the fact-checkers he was in intensive care and that the circulating death reports were false. The review also says that nurse Pushpa Ramyaani Soisa posted about his condition, and that singer Dayan Vitharana and actor Mihira Sirithilaka separately rejected the death report.
«Kein Mensch ist gut genug, um über einen anderen zu herrschen» ist ein Zitat von George Bernard Shaw.
Publisher’s rating: Das Zitat stammt vom ehemaligen US-Präsidenten Abraham Lincoln und ist zudem unvollständig wiedergegeben.
Visuals of Diwail fireworks show on the Taipei 101 building in Taiwan
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
The claim concerns a video presented as showing Diwali fireworks on Taipei 101 in Taiwan. FACTLY’s review identifies the footage instead as the building’s New Year fireworks event welcoming 2021, and says the show was unrelated to Diwali. The review states that the event featured 16,000 fireworks. To investigate, FACTLY reports performing reverse image searches on screenshots from the circulated video. It found similar visuals in older social-media videos whose users identified them as Taipei 101’s 2021 New Year fireworks. The review also found a similar video on Taiwan News’s YouTube channel, titled “New Year’s 2021: Taipei 101 fireworks show.” FACTLY further reports that Taiwan News published an article describing the New Year display and that other news websites also published articles and videos about the event. The review distinguishes this footage from Diwali celebrations in Taiwan: it mentions a 2020 Diwali festival in Taipei and says Taiwan’s president greeted Indians around the world for Diwali on 4 November 2021, but concludes the circulated video depicts the New Year fireworks, not those celebrations.
¿Es cierto que no es la primera vez que hay heridos en los conciertos de Travis Scott?
Publisher’s rating: Verdad
২০১০ সালের লাক্স সুন্দরী এখন বিসিএস ক্যাডার
Publisher’s rating: Misleading
FACT CHECK: ප්රවීණ දකුණු ඉන්දීය සිනමා නළු රජිනි කාන්ත් දිවි රගමඩලෙන් සමුගනී ?
Publisher’s rating: False
The post examined by Fact Crescendo Sri Lanka claimed that veteran South Indian actor Rajinikanth had died. The review identifies the wording circulating on Facebook and says it checked the claim’s accuracy. It reports that the posts had been shared by Facebook users and some pages, and that some of those posts were later removed. To assess the death claim, the review says it checked foreign-media reports and found no reports of Rajinikanth’s death. Instead, it reports that he had been admitted to Chennai’s Kauvery Hospital for surgery and had recovered sufficiently to return home the previous Sunday. The review also says Rajinikanth himself had posted on his official Twitter account that he was home. The review’s conclusion is that the death report was false, not that Rajinikanth had never been hospitalized: its account places the hospital stay and recovery in the immediate context of the circulating claim. The excerpt does not name the foreign-media outlets or reproduce the linked reports or tweet, so those underlying materials cannot be independently assessed from the supplied text alone.
শ্বাহৰুখৰ এক বিমান দুৰ্ঘটনাত মৃত্যু হৈছে। তৃতীয় ছবিখনত শ্বাহৰুখ খানৰ ছবিখনৰ সৈতে RIP 1965 – 2021 বুলি লিখা হৈছে।
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
FACT CHECK: ස්ටීව් ජොබ්ස් සිය අවසාන මොහොතේදී ජීවිත යතාර්ථය ගැන කරුණු පැවසුවාද ?
Publisher’s rating: Misleading
The review examines a social-media post attributing a long reflection on wealth, illness and life’s value to Steve Jobs during his final moments. It says the post presented him as dying at 56 from pancreatic cancer and included additional advice about money, relationships and health. The investigation focused on whether Jobs actually made the alleged final-moment statements, rather than on whether the advice itself was sound. [S1: “ස්ටීව් ජොබ්ස් මියයන අවස්ථාවේ ජීවිත යතාර්ථය සම්බන්ධයෙන් කරුණු පැහැදිලි කරන ලදැයි විස්තරාත්මකව සදහන් ෆේස්බුක් සටහනක් පළව තිබුණේ මෙලෙසින්.”] To check the attribution, the review reports looking for accounts in international mainstream media and says it found no such reporting there; it describes circulation of the story as largely confined to social media and blogs. It also says it considered accounts from people close to Jobs: his sister, Mona Simpson, spoke at Stanford University about his final moments. The review identifies her account, as quoted by the New York Times, as giving his last words as “OH WOW” repeated three times. [S1: “අප මුලින්ම විමසා බැලුවේ විදෙස් මාධ්ය ධාරාවල හෝ මරණාසන්න මොහොතේදී ස්ටීව් ජොබ්ස් විසින් ජීවිත යතාර්ථය පිළිබදව හෝ ධනය සම්බන්ධ ප්රකාශයක් සිදු කළ බවට සඳහන් වනවාද යන කරුණයි.”] [S1: “ඔහුගේ සොහොයුරිය වන Mona Simpson විසින් Stanford විශ්ව විද්යාලයේදී පවත්වන ලද ගුණ කථනයකදී, ඔහුගේ මුවින් අවසානයට පිටවූ වචන ලෙස පවසන්නේ ‘OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW’ යන වචන තුනයි.”] The review adds that Walter Isaacson’s biography of Jobs did not record the alleged life-and-wealth speech. On the evidence described, it concludes there was no evidence that Jobs made the circulated statements and contrasts them with Simpson’s account of his final words. The excerpt does not provide the underlying New York Times passage or the biography text, so those materials cannot be independently assessed from the supplied evidence alone. [S1: “Walter Isaacson විසින් රචිත ස්ටීව් ජොබ්ස් ගේ චරිතාපදානයේද මෙවැනි අවසන් වරට ජීවිත යථාර්ථය පිළිබඳව ඔහු විසින් පැවසූ ප්රකාශයක් පිළිබඳව සටහන් වන්නේද නැහැ.”] [S1: “අප විසින් සිදු කල ගවේෂණයේදී පැහැදිලි වන්නේ ස්ටීව් ජොබ්ස් විසින් මරණාසන්න මොහොතේදී ,ජීවිත යතාර්ථය හෝ ධනය පිළිබඳව කළ ප්රකාශ සම්බන්ධයෙන් කිසිදු සාක්ෂියක් නොමැති බවයි.”]
పునీత్ రాజ్కుమార్ మరణానికి సంబంధించి డాక్టర్ దేవి శెట్టి యొక్క సందేశం
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
Dies ist ein Zitat von Cicero
Publisher’s rating: Es lassen sich keine Belege finden, dass dies ein Zitat von Cicero ist. Mehrere Experten gehen davon aus, dass der Spruch nicht von ihm stammt.
The Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa) investigated a Facebook sharepic that attributed to Cicero a saying describing a social hierarchy in which politicians live at other citizens’ expense. Its searches for the full wording, fragments of it and Cicero’s name found only a page offering the image for download and social-media versions. The Facebook search results all dated from October 2021; dpa also found a version circulating since 2013 whose author expressly said the saying was not by Cicero. Two classicists questioned the attribution. Ulrich Schmitzer of Humboldt University said the wording did not fit a translation from ancient Latin and that the described social hierarchy did not match Rome of Cicero’s era. He also cited the historical context of taxes, lawyers, doctors and paid politicians. Schmitzer searched available databases for matching terms and found no evidence of such a quotation; Wilfried Stroh, an emeritus professor of classical philology who had researched Cicero, also judged the words to be far removed from him.
Claim: This video not related with Kannada actor Puneet Rajkumar
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
The claim concerns a CCTV video circulating as the final moments of Kannada actor Puneeth Rajkumar. The review describes footage of a young man becoming faint, sitting on stairs, then collapsing and dying. It says the video was also shared with a caption identifying it as Puneeth Rajkumar’s final CCTV footage, and reports that the same footage had circulated months earlier after the death of a Hindi Bigg Boss personality. The investigation therefore checked whether the video actually showed Puneeth, rather than relying on the social-media caption. Fact Crescendo reports that it converted frames from the video into images and searched for them using reverse image search. It found posts on Twitter dated September 1, 2021, describing the footage as the final moments of a 33-year-old man who suffered a heart attack after exercising at a gym in Bengaluru. The review also says it found YouTube videos showing the footage had been uploaded on August 25, 2021. The timing is central to the conclusion: the review states that Puneeth died on October 29, 2021, whereas the footage was already being shared online in August and September. On that basis, it concludes the video shows a different person and was misleadingly recaptioned as Puneeth’s death. The excerpts do not identify the man in the footage by name or provide further details confirming his identity.