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Boatos.orgEconomy & business

Recrutamento da plataforma SHEIN: pessoal online estamos contratando Salário: 300-500 R$/dia → Nova plataforma de trabalho

Publisher’s rating: Falso

The claim concerns online advertisements using SHEIN’s name to promise remote work paying R$300–500 per day and direct applicants to a recruitment platform. The review reproduces two versions of the message, including one offering work at home for one to three hours a day and another advertising four-hour shifts, free training, and a home-office subsidy. It reports that applicants were directed to contact a supposed employer through WhatsApp or Telegram, then asked to pay for access to the platform or for training. The review describes the payment sequence as the central warning sign: people paid repeatedly, but the promised job did not materialize. It also reports that SHEIN denied any connection to a site called Money Looks, which was using the company’s name and image to promote an app with a false promise of extra income from rating the brand’s looks. This denial addresses the alleged recruitment scheme, rather than establishing that SHEIN had the advertised jobs. The review concludes that the advertised offer was a scam intended to collect money from applicants. Its account supports that conclusion with the described pay-to-access process and the company’s reported denial of affiliation. The excerpt does not provide independent records of individual applicants’ payments or identify the operators of the site, so those details cannot be established from the supplied text.

המשרוקיתEconomy & business

בשום הורידו מכס מיידית לאפס... היבואנים הרוויחו אבל המחיר לא ירד

Publisher’s rating: לא נכון

The claim concerns Oren Lavie, director-general of the Agriculture Ministry, who said that the tariff on garlic had been immediately reduced to zero, importers benefited, and the price did not fall. The review checked the price claim against the period before and after the tariff was removed in March 2022. It also notes that the ministry did not respond when asked whether it had received new data behind Lavie’s statement. The investigation focused on packaged garlic because it was the main product sold: the review reports that, in 2022, packaged garlic accounted for 81% of garlic marketed, while loose and fresh garlic accounted for 11% and 8%. Using StoreNext figures supplied by the Agriculture Ministry, it compared consumer prices per kilogram: packaged garlic cost 37.4 shekels in January 2022, before the tariff change; 32.1 in April; 27.5 in December; and 27.8 in January 2023. Those figures show a lower price after the tariff removal, rather than the unchanged price described in the claim. The review qualifies what the comparison establishes: it says garlic prices are also affected by the world purchase price and domestic marketing margins. Its account of ministry data shows that the import price including the tariff fell from 14.3 shekels per kilogram in January 2022 to 4.8 in January 2023, while the marketing margin was 23.1 shekels in January 2022 and 23 in January 2023. Thus, the observed decline in the consumer price followed tariff removal, but the review also identifies a concurrent decline in import prices; the comparison does not attribute the entire consumer-price change to the tariff alone.

Detector / Univision NoticiasEconomy & business

Dan Patrick dijo que los abuelos deben morir para salvar la economía estadounidense, Christine Lagarde señaló que los ancianos viven demasiado y eso es un riesgo para la economía global y Taro Aso pidió a los adultos mayores que se den prisa en morir.

Publisher’s rating: Engañoso

The review examines a viral Facebook video accusing Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde, and former Japanese prime minister Taro Aso of urging older people to die. It finds the video misleading because it distorts Patrick’s remarks, attributes an unsupported statement to Lagarde, and presents Aso’s real but old remark as recent. For Patrick, the review says keyword searches led to reports about comments he made to Fox News in March 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Rather than saying grandparents should die to save the economy, Patrick said he believed many grandparents like himself might accept a risk to their survival so the country would not be sacrificed. He also urged people to return to work and life while saying those aged 70 or older would take care of themselves. The video’s “must die” formulation therefore changes the meaning of his remarks. For Lagarde, the review reports that earlier checks found no written or audiovisual record of her saying older people live too long and threaten the global economy. It says the ECB denied that she made the statement to Maldita.es. The review also describes a possible source of confusion: a 2012 IMF report discussed the financial implications of people living longer than expected, but the wording was not the viral quote and Lagarde did not present the report. Aso did make a remark urging older people to hurry up and die so the state would not have to pay for their care, but the review dates it to 2013, when he was Japan’s finance minister. It says he apologized immediately. The video’s presentation of his remark as something said “in these days” is thus misleading.

Belarusian Investigative CenterEconomy & business

Клайпедский порт компенсировал потери от остановки транзита беларусского калия

Publisher’s rating: Проверим, так ли это на самом деле. С февраля прошлого года государственное предприятие «Литовские железные дороги» расторгло договор с «Беларуськалием» на перевозку удобрений. С тех пор Клайпедский порт перестал грузить беларусский калий. По данным на сайте порта о его работе за прошлый год, грузооборот сократился на 20%. Порт переключился с удобрений на контейнерные перевозки. В результате доходы упали на 10% — с 66 до 60 млн евро. То есть литовцы свои экономические потери полностью не компенсировали. Но продолжают настаивать на санкциях.

El Detector / Univision NoticiasEconomy & business

Target vende una línea de ropa satánica para niños.

Publisher’s rating: Falso

The review examined a Facebook reel claiming that Target sold a satanic clothing line for children. It described the reel as showing children in mostly black and red clothing with skulls, rams and pentagrams, along with mannequins featuring horns and animal figures. The review reports that Target’s press department directly denied selling the items: the company said it “nunca ha vendido esos artículos.” The investigation also checked the images’ provenance and whether they supported the claim. It submitted images from the reel to Optic AI or Not: the tool assessed eight as likely AI-generated, three as not AI-generated, and one as indeterminate. The review further reports that Dan Reese acknowledged creating images for a related Facebook post using Midjourney. Reuters had reported that the images were posted in the Facebook group Cursed AI; the review says that post contained 12 of the reel’s 16 images. The evidence therefore addresses both the alleged sale and the imagery offered to suggest it. Target denied selling the clothing, while the image checks and reported creator admission point to AI-generated imagery rather than documentation of a Target product line. The review also notes that the reel’s four other images showed Target store areas but did not depict the alleged satanic clothing line.