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FACTLYEconomy & business

e-SHRAM cardholders will get a pension of ₹5000 every month

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim concerns a video saying that e-SHRAM cardholders will receive a pension of ₹5,000 every month. FACTLY’s review says it checked the benefits described on the official e-SHRAM portal and found no provision granting that pension simply for registering. It concludes that registration alone does not qualify cardholders for the claimed monthly payment. The portal benefits cited in the review are different: registered workers receive ₹2 lakh of accidental insurance cover under the Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana. The portal’s stated purpose also includes sharing information about unorganised workers with government departments to improve the delivery of social-security schemes. Those provisions do not establish a universal ₹5,000 monthly pension for cardholders. The review distinguishes registration from eligibility for other support: it says future social-security benefits may be delivered through the portal, and that the worker database may be used to provide assistance to eligible workers in emergencies or national pandemics. It does not describe those possibilities as a pension entitlement for every registrant. Its conclusion is therefore limited to the video’s claim that merely registering on e-SHRAM provides the specified monthly pension.

BuzzFeed JapanEconomy & business

中国発の格安アパレルブランド「SHEIN」の商品タグに「NEED YOUR HELP」「HELP ME」「I HAVE DENTAL PAIN」と労働者からメッセージが記されている

Publisher’s rating: 不正確

The review examined three images circulated as evidence that SHEIN clothing tags carried pleas from workers. It found that the messages did not establish that interpretation: the first was taken from a longer care instruction, the second was part of a product name, and the origin and connection to SHEIN of the third were not clearly established. The review therefore concluded that linking these images to labor conditions was unsupported or misleading, rather than evidence that workers had written the messages on product tags. For “NEED YOUR HELP,” the investigation compared the circulated crop with a fuller version of a similar tag shown on a sales site. The complete text concerns washing the garment, including a request to use gentle detergent the first time; the review found no basis for treating it as a worker’s plea. “HELP ME” appeared on a Romwe bookmark, and the words were part of the product name “Help Me Bookmarks.” The review says the name was changed to “Romwe Logo Bookmark” in 2018 after the tag had prompted misunderstanding. The source of the “I HAVE DENTAL PAIN” tag was unclear. The review found that the image existed online by 2016 and that a Russian-language version also circulated, but it did not establish a connection to SHEIN or labor issues. It described the image’s earlier circulation as a meme about a strange label. The article separately notes reporting and concerns about labor conditions in SHEIN’s supply chain; those broader concerns do not verify that these particular tag messages came from workers.

Washington PostEconomy & business

“Gas prices have reached the highest levels in history, and expect them to go much higher now that the strategic national reserves, which I filled up, have been virtually drained to keep gasoline prices lower.”

Publisher’s rating: False

Related reporting directly reproduces the statement and attributes it to Donald Trump in remarks dated Nov. 15, 2022. The article places the remark in the political dispute over reserve releases during the Biden administration, saying that the administration tapped the Strategic Petroleum Reserve after Russia invaded Ukraine and gasoline prices surged. This establishes the quote’s subject and setting, but the excerpt does not provide a contemporaneous price series or reserve figures from 2022 that would independently test the statement’s claims about record-high prices, future increases, or how much Trump had previously filled the reserves. The article’s figures describe a later, separate drawdown connected to the Iran conflict: it reports reserves of about 357 million barrels, nearly 60 million barrels below their pre-war level, and quotes a GasBuddy analyst saying the reserve was nearing its lowest level since 1983. Those later figures are not evidence of the reserve’s condition when Trump made the 2022 remark. The excerpt therefore supplies relevant attribution and chronology, but does not, on its own, establish whether the quoted claims were accurate.