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Fact Crescendo Sri LankaEconomy & business

වර්තමාන විදුලි බිල ගණනය කිරීමක් ලෙස හුවමාරු වන්නේ, නව මිල සංශෝධනයට පෙර පළවූ සටහනක්!

Publisher’s rating: Missing Context

Fact Crescendo examined a social-media post giving household electricity-bill rates and calculations, which had first circulated in December 2022. The review says people were sharing it after the February 2023 bill revision and treating the old figures as current. It distinguishes the post’s original accuracy from whether its figures still applied: the calculations were correct for the rates in effect when the post was made, but not for the revised rates. To check the figures, the review compared the social post’s calculations with a report on the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka website describing the tariff after the August 2022 revision. It says this comparison showed that the post’s figures matched the rates then in force. The review then contrasted those older figures with the changes made in February 2023, noting that the updated bill calculation differed substantially and charged more per unit. It also says it consulted the Ceylon Electricity Board’s explanation of the February 2023 tariff; the excerpt cautions that rates for businesses and religious institutions differed from the household figures discussed. The review’s conclusion is therefore about timing and context: the December 2022 post was not false when first published, but its figures had become outdated after the February 2023 revision. The review says that sharing it as a current calculation, or creating new posts based on it, could mislead readers.

El Detector / Univision NoticiasEconomy & business

“Huevos artificiales” mostrados en un video son elaborados para venderlos a “compradores incautos” en supermercados chinos.

Publisher’s rating: Falso

The claim concerns a viral Facebook video said to show counterfeit eggs being made in illegal factories and sold in Chinese supermarkets as real eggs. The review describes the accompanying narration: a factory could allegedly produce thousands daily, at less than half the price of genuine eggs, and distribute them to unwary customers. The video had more than 21,000 likes and 1,200 comments by April 27, 2023, according to the article. The review reports that its investigators used Google reverse-image searches on clips from the video. They found earlier fact-checks by France 24, Newsroom Post and Factly, which traced the claim to at least 2017 and identified the footage as toy production. The article also describes Chinese news reports from 2017 and 2018, which, using Google’s webpage translation tool, it says reported that Nanjing Public Security Bureau had rejected the rumors and explained that the video showed toy eggs, not food for sale. The review adds that reverse searches found toy listings with labels like those visible in the footage, as well as egg-shaped stress toys resembling items shown at the beginning of the video that were available on Amazon and AliExpress in April 2023. It concludes that the footage shows toy-making and packaging, not the manufacture of counterfeit food eggs for sale in Chinese supermarkets.

El Detector / Univision NoticiasEconomy & business

Moneda del “nuevo orden mundial” fue creada por 10 “potencias” para sustituir al dólar.

Publisher’s rating: Falso

The claim concerns a video circulating on Facebook that presents a coin marked “Nuevo Orden Mundial” and “Diez regiones mundiales” as a project by ten nations to replace the dollar with a single global currency. The review identifies that video and those assertions directly, rather than treating the coin’s imagery as evidence of an international monetary plan. It reports that the piece was privately designed and was not made to circulate as money. To investigate the coin’s origin, the review says it used reverse-image and keyword searches, checked auction and sales listings, consulted a 2009 forum post and an archived version of the coin’s promotional website, and contacted the American Numismatic Association and artist Terbo Ted. The Association’s Sam Gelberd described it as silver but “not real money issued by a central authority.” Ted confirmed that he designed it with his brother Jason Hommel and said it was produced in 2009 by various mints. The review also explains a key distinction obscured by the video: Ted called the pieces “rounds,” not coins. As reported by the review, privately minted rounds are not created to circulate as currency; national mints produce coins with a face value in addition to the metal’s value. The evidence presented therefore traces the object to a private 2009 collectible, not to a proposal created by ten powers to replace the dollar.