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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

Fact Crescendo Sri LankaEconomy & business

අලුත් රැකියා ලක්ෂ 510ක් ලබා දෙන බවට විපක්ෂ නායකගෙන් ප්‍රකාශයක්?

Publisher’s rating: Misleading

The claim concerned a social-media post attributing a promise of 510 lakh new jobs to Sajith Premadasa in connection with a 15,000-acre international investment zone in Hambantota. The review identifies him as Sri Lanka’s then-opposition leader, but says the statement at issue was made years earlier, when he was a minister. It describes the circulating post as presenting the figure as “ලක්ෂ 510” (510 lakhs).

Fact Crescendo Sri LankaEconomy & business

ලිට්‍රෝ ගෑස් සමාගම විසින් ගෑස් සිලින්ඩර 500ක් නොමිලේ පරිත්‍යාග කරන බවට ව්‍යාජ සටහනක්!

Publisher’s rating: False

The claim concerned a social-media post presenting a giveaway of 500 free gas cylinders as a Litro Gas promotion. The review says it examined the circulating post and notes that commenters appeared to treat it as genuine. It then checked whether Litro Gas Lanka had announced such a promotion on its official Facebook page; the review found no such promotion or matching post there. To investigate further, the fact-checker contacted Litro’s marketing manager, identified as Mr. Kethiswaran. According to the review, he said the company was not running a programme to give away gas cylinders and described the posts as coming from a fake Facebook page impersonating Litro. The review therefore concluded that the giveaway claim was not a genuine company promotion. The article also mentions a September 5 reduction in gas prices and lists prices for three cylinder sizes. That information provides additional detail in the article, but the review’s stated basis for rejecting the giveaway claim is the absence of the promotion on Litro’s official page and the marketing manager’s account—not the price changes.

FACTLYEconomy & business

Rahul Gandhi says like how petrol is filled into a tractor or a truck to switch on the Engine, we are filling petrol in the Indian Economy

Publisher’s rating: MISLEADING

The claim concerns a viral clip in which Rahul Gandhi says petrol is being put into the Indian economy, comparing it to filling a tractor or truck with fuel. FACTLY reports that the clip came from a speech he made at a public meeting in Chhattisgarh in April 2020, where he was explaining the Congress party’s NYAY scheme. In the fuller passage, Gandhi described the scheme as a way to jump-start the economy and said that, after fuel was put in, “the Engine starts at once.” FACTLY says the viral post cropped out that explanation and used the fuel analogy to mock him. Its account of the speech adds that Gandhi was discussing how NYAY would provide poor people with an annual amount of Rs. 72,000, which they could spend on goods; he linked that spending to renewed factory production and jobs. Thus the clip contains a real remark, but the review finds its presentation misleading because it omits the policy context and the rest of the analogy.

FACTLYEconomy & business

An article reporting the huge drop in Petrol and Diesel prices across the country

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The review examined a post sharing an article from the Haryana-based indiabreaking.com website. The post presented petrol at Rs. 75 per litre and diesel at Rs. 70 per litre as prices to which fuel had supposedly been reduced across the country. The investigation says the shared article itself did not report such a reduction; its headline drew readers in without the promised information.

dpaEconomy & business

Dieser echte Zeitungsartikel vermeldet bereits im Jahr 1927, dass die USA an fünf Milliardäre verkauft wurde.

Publisher’s rating: Der Zeitungsartikel ist nicht echt, er stammt von einer Satire-Seite.

The claim concerns a screenshot presented as a genuine 1927 newspaper report that the United States had been sold to five billionaires. The review identifies the headline in the screenshot as “Milliardäre kaufen Vereinigte Staaten von Millionären: Zukunft der Nation in noch reicheren Händen” and concludes that the supposed news article is satirical, not authentic. The screenshot’s newspaper name is not visible, and its article text is too blurry to read except for individual words; it does show oil magnate John D. Rockefeller. Those limitations mean the screenshot itself does not establish that a real newspaper published the report. The review traces the purported 1927 report to the US satirical magazine The Onion. It says the masthead “The Onion” appears on the front page of the invented newspaper, in a part cut off from the circulating screenshot. Thus, the image’s presentation omits the identifying detail that reveals its satirical origin. The review also describes corroborating checks: a reverse-image search found the screenshot widely circulated as an allegedly genuine article, and the reviewer found earlier fact-checks about it. As further evidence of the source’s satirical nature, the review points to The Onion’s self-description, which claims an implausible readership of 4.3 trillion and calls the publication the most powerful and influential organization in human history; it also says the US Library of Congress identifies the site as satirical. The screenshot posts omit a satire warning, and the review notes that some commenters took them as genuine.

dpaEconomy & business

En Belgique, il est légal de ne payer que 100 euros par mois sur ses factures d'énergie.

Publisher’s rating: Les règles de modification des acomptes varient selon le type de contrat, la région du domicile et le fournisseur. Mais, dans tous les cas, le montant total d'une facture sera réclamé à un moment. Ne pas la payer dans son entièreté peut conduire à un processus de recouvrement de dettes.

The claim concerns advice circulating in Belgium that consumers may withdraw their energy-payment direct debit and pay just €100 a month, regardless of the amount billed. The review says this advice appeared on the Facebook page “Je suis Belge et j’en ai marre de me faire taxer.” It distinguishes changing an advance payment from settling the full amount owed for gas and electricity.