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Belarusian Investigative CenterEconomy & business

США разрушили экономику Германии

Publisher’s rating: Статистика опровергает это утверждение. По данным Всемирного банка, ВВП Германии действительно снизился с $4,26 трлн в 2021 до $4,07 трлн в 2022 году. Однако страна как была четвертой экономикой мира до войны в Украине и введения санкций против России, так и остается ею сейчас.

Deutsche Presse-AgenturEconomy & business

7-Jahresbudget innerhalb von 2 Jahren weg. EU ist pleite.

Publisher’s rating: Es gibt keine Hinweise darauf, dass die EU ihren langfristigen Haushaltsplan von mehr als einer Billion Euro für den Zeitraum von 2021 bis 2027 bereits nach zwei Jahren ausgegeben hat. Laut der Generaldirektion Budget der EU-Kommission wurde 2021 und 2022 zusammen etwa ein Viertel des insgesamt verfügbaren Budgets ausgegeben.

FACTLYEconomy & business

Cost of the Evian brand’s water bottle seen at the family gathering of Tejashwi Yadav is ₹2900 per liter

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim concerns an Evian bottle seen on the table at a video described as showing Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav’s family gathering. The post said that the bottle cost around ₹2,900 per litre. FACTLY’s review identifies the bottle as a one-litre Evian bottle and says the price claim is incorrect: the specific variant shown had an MRP of ₹250. To check the price, the review says it searched prices for different Evian variants across e-commerce sites. It reports that one-litre Evian bottles generally ranged from ₹200 to ₹500, depending on variant, packaging, retailer and other factors. For the variant it identified in the video, the review gives a listed selling price of ₹225 on Big Basket, alongside the ₹250 MRP. Those figures distinguish the specific bottle’s marked price from its reported current sale price. The review also notes that a Himalayan-brand bottle was visible in the video and gives its MRP as ₹70. That is a separate bottle and does not support the claim about the Evian bottle. The review’s stated evidence therefore addresses the product and setting in the claim, while indicating that the claimed ₹2,900-per-litre figure does not match the price it found for the identified Evian variant.

המשרוקיתEconomy & business

כ-20% מהציבור משלמים למעלה מ-90% מהמס במדינה

Publisher’s rating: לא נכון ברובו

The review assesses a statement by opposition MK Oded Forer during a Knesset Economic Affairs Committee discussion with Economy Minister Nir Barkat. Forer argued that around 20% of the public pay more than 90% of the country’s taxes. The investigation checked whether that figure applied to all state tax revenue, rather than to a narrower tax category. Forer’s office referred the reviewers to research by the Shoresh Institution. The review says that research found the two highest income deciles paid 92% of income-tax receipts in 2017–2019. But income tax is only one part of government tax revenue: the review reports that in 2020 it accounted for about 22% of total receipts, compared with about 24% for VAT. The 92% figure therefore does not establish that those deciles paid more than 90% of all taxes. To assess the broader claim, the reviewers describe using Finance Ministry figures based on the Central Bureau of Statistics’ 2019 Household Expenditure Survey, which allocated direct and indirect tax receipts among household deciles. On that basis, the top two deciles paid 50% of total taxes: the top decile paid 32.8% and the ninth decile 17.2%. Their share was higher for direct taxes, at 62.3%, but lower for indirect taxes, at 30.1%. The review concludes that Forer’s statement was mostly false because it generalized an income-tax statistic to all taxes.

YouturnEconomy & business

தக்காளியை பாதுகாக்க பவுன்சர்ஸ் உத்தரப் பிரதேசத்தில் தக்காளியை பாதுகாக்க பவுன்சர்களை நியமித்த காய்கறி வியாபாரி அஜய்; தக்காளியின் விலை உயர்ந்து வரும் நிலையில், கடைக்கு வரும் மக்கள் சிலர் வாக்குவாதத்தில் ஈடுபடுவதாலும், கொள்ளையடித்துச் செல்வதாலும் பவுன்சர்களை நியமித்ததாக விளக்கம்.

Publisher’s rating: Misleading

Folha de S.PauloEconomy & business

Post exibe vídeo com trecho de discurso feito por Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) a líderes sul-americanos, em que o presidente declara: “Sugiro a consideração de vocês às seguintes iniciativas: colocar a poupança regional a serviço do desenvolvimento econômico e social, mobilizando os bancos de desenvolvimento como a CAF, o Fonplata, o Banco do Sul e o BNDES”. Na sequência do conteúdo, uma mulher afirma que Lula irá confiscar a poupança e recomenda que as pessoas salvem seu dinheiro: “Quem tem algum dinheirinho guardado, que seja R$ 1 mil, R$ 2 mil, tira. Voltamos à era do dinheiro no colchão”.

Publisher’s rating: Enganoso

FACTLYEconomy & business

Government is giving an allowance of Rs 3,000 per month to unemployed youth under the Pradhan Mantri Berojgari Bhatta Yojana

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim concerns a purported Union government scheme, the Pradhan Mantri Berojgari Bhatta Yojana, said to pay unemployed young people Rs 3,000 each month. FACTLY’s review says it examined a social-media post making that promise, including its stated eligibility requirements. The central issue was whether the Union government actually operated the named scheme—not whether any Indian state offered unemployment assistance under a similarly named program. The review reports that the Union government was not running a scheme by that name to provide youth unemployment allowances. It says the Press Information Bureau (PIB) had refuted similar circulating messages, and that the Ministry of Home Affairs’ Indian Cybercrime Coordination Center also declared the news false. The supplied article excerpt does not describe independent database searches or other testing by FACTLY; its stated support is those government bodies’ warnings and the article’s examination of the circulating claim. The review also identifies an important qualification: Chhattisgarh had implemented a state-level Berojgari Bhatta Yojana. According to the article, eligible educated youth could receive an allowance initially for one year, with a possible extension for another year if they did not find suitable work, subject to a two-year maximum. That state program does not establish the claimed Union scheme or the specific Rs 3,000 monthly payment. The review’s conclusion is limited to the claim that the Union government was offering this allowance under the Pradhan Mantri scheme.

Boatos.orgEconomy & business

Consulta liberada até: 8/07/2023 ✅ Saques concluídos: 654 Milhões Seja bem vindo(a) ao Sistema Valores a Receber (SVR) Faça a consulta para saber se você têm valores a receber do Sistema Financeiro.Consulte agora, caso haja algum valor a receber, faça o saque via PIX e receba imediatamente.

Publisher’s rating: Falso

The claim advertised a supposed Brazilian Central Bank “Values Receivable” (SVR) lookup, saying the consultation was available through July 8, 2023, and promising that users could withdraw any money found immediately through PIX. Boatos.org examined that message as one circulating on WhatsApp and described its instructions to enter personal details on a Russian-domain site and share the link with friends. The review found warning signs in the message: it was vague, used alarmist language, contained Portuguese errors and cited no reliable sources. It also noted that the advertised search included categories such as forgotten benefits, credit-card money and emergency assistance, whereas the review says the SVR offered recovery of money from inactive accounts—not those advertised categories. According to the article, the requested personal information and sharing steps fit a data-theft scam, and following them would not result in the promised payment. To identify the legitimate consultation route, the article says it visited the Central Bank’s page and quotes the bank’s warning that the only site for checking and requesting the return of funds is valoresareceber.bcb.gov.br, that the service is free, and that users should not pay or click suspicious links. It concludes that the WhatsApp message did not represent a Central Bank SVR site or a genuine July 2023 deadline, but was another scam attempt.