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Economy & business fact checks

Explore claims publishers have checked about economy & business. Read their original ratings and follow the evidence.

7,093 published reviews in this topic

dpaEconomy & business

De ECB wil de digitale euro invoeren, waarbij gebruikers nog slechts 1000 euro per maand mogen uitgeven en maximaal 3000 euro mogen bezitten. Het geld heeft een vervaldatum en de overheid bepaalt waaraan het mag worden uitgegeven.

Publisher’s rating: De beweringen zijn onjuist. De ECB onderzoekt nog of het de digitale euro wil invoeren. Over het precieze ontwerp wordt nog gesproken. Eventuele bestedingslimieten staan nog niet vast. Een vervaldatum voor geld wil de ECB in ieder geval niet invoeren. Restricties op waaraan het geld mag worden uitgegeven evenmin. De digitale euro is niet bedoeld als vervanging, maar als aanvulling op de bestaande euro.

PA MediaEconomy & business

Nurses are striking because they want a 19% pay rise.

Publisher’s rating: Needs context: The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) is pushing for wage growth of 5% above the RPI rate of inflation. The pay request from nurses is variable because it depends on the rate of inflation, so it is misleading to present it as a specific figure based on a time when inflation was high.

FACTLYEconomy & business

Free banking services to discontinue from 20 January 2023 – RBI

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim concerned a social-media video presented as evidence that the RBI would discontinue free banking services from 20 January 2023. FACTLY reports that the clip was not a new announcement: it was a shortened version of a Zee Business bulletin from January 2018. Its investigation used the Zee Business logo visible throughout the viral video to identify its likely origin, then searched for the bulletin and found a longer version in a January 2018 Zee News tweet. The tweet’s text referred to banking becoming more expensive from 20 January, matching the subject of the circulated clip. (S1) The review also describes checking reports about the alleged banking rules. It says that, when the claim circulated in 2018, the Government of India called it baseless. It cites a statement by Rajeev Kumar, then secretary of the Department of Financial Services, that no bank proposal existed to discontinue free services from 20 January, and notes that he posted an Indian Banks’ Association circular labelling the reports baseless and false. (S1) Taken together, the clip’s 2018 provenance and the reported government response undermine its presentation as evidence of a new RBI rule taking effect in 2023. The review concludes that the 2018 report was being falsely recirculated as a 2023 announcement. The supplied excerpt does not provide the circular’s text or describe an independent check of RBI rules in 2023, so those details cannot be assessed here. (S1)