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dpaEconomy & business

Bei diesem Gewinnspiel kann man Edeka-Geschenkgutscheine gewinnen.

Publisher’s rating: Das angebliche Gewinnspiel ist nicht seriös und hat nichts mit Edeka zu tun. Polizei und Verbraucherschützer warnen vor solchen dubiosen Gewinnspiel-Angeboten.

The claim concerns a Facebook giveaway promising Edeka gift vouchers. The dpa review describes the offer as a post saying the first 250 people to recognize numbers in an image would receive vouchers. Its investigation compared the page running the offer with Edeka’s official Facebook presence and found several signs that the giveaway was not genuine. The giveaway page lacked Facebook’s verification badge and misspelled the company name as “Edeka Deutchland.” By contrast, the review says Edeka’s official page had been established more than eleven years earlier, included a complete imprint, and had over 1.2 million followers; the giveaway page had only 33 subscribers. The review also reports that the Edeka logo was being used without authorization. The page did not identify who was behind the giveaway and had no imprint with an address or contact details. The review notes that commercially used pages are legally required to provide an imprint. Taken together, these findings support the conclusion that the offer was not an authentic Edeka promotion. The review also warns against sharing email addresses or other personal data with dubious giveaway offers, noting that such data may be sold.

המשרוקיתEconomy & business

נתניהו צמצם פערים בין עניים לעשירים

Publisher’s rating: נכון

The claim was made by Likud MK Galit Distel-Atbaryan during a televised panel with Labor MK Emily Moatti. Distel-Atbaryan argued that, according to the OECD, Netanyahu had narrowed the gap between rich and poor. The review focused on income differences, explaining that Israel does not officially measure wealth gaps between rich and poor, and that the Gini index covers inequality across society, including the middle class. It therefore also examined three measures focused on income differences between the top and bottom: P90/P10, S80/S20, and the Palma ratio. Using OECD data available through 2018 and a National Insurance Institute study, the review found that the measures showed a broadly similar pattern: income gaps rose during the first decade of the 2000s and fell during the following decade, when Netanyahu was prime minister. For the period with the newer OECD measurement method, 2012–2018, P90/P10 and S80/S20 fell by 15% in Israel, while the OECD median rose by 5%; the Palma ratio fell by 13% in Israel and by 1% across the OECD. The review also noted that the Gini index showed a similar direction of change. The evidence supports the narrower claim that measured income gaps declined during Netanyahu’s premiership; it does not establish that his policies caused the decline. The review explicitly cautioned that the OECD changed its measurement method in 2012, complicating comparisons across the earlier and later decades. It also emphasized that, despite the decline, Israel remained among the OECD countries with the highest inequality and income gaps.

Fact Crescendo Sri LankaEconomy & business

ශ්‍රී ලංකාව උද්ධමනය අතින් ලෝකයෙන්ම 12 වන ස්ථානයේද ?

Publisher’s rating: Explainer

The review examined a social-media post asserting that Venezuela had the world’s highest inflation and Sri Lanka was ranked 12th. It compared that ranking claim with international inflation data, while also checking the post’s separate claim about photographs of money abandoned in Venezuela. The review says it used Google Reverse Image Search to investigate the photographs and consulted several inflation indexes, including Trading Economics data reproduced by World Population Review and The Global Economy’s forecasts for 2022. The ranking evidence did not support 12th place for Sri Lanka. In the Trading Economics data cited by the review, Venezuela had the highest inflation in January 2022, Sri Lanka ranked 44th, and Zambia was 12th. The review also reports that The Global Economy’s forecast ranking placed Sierra Leone 12th and Sri Lanka 27th. It says World Bank data likewise placed Venezuela among the countries with the highest inflation. These comparisons address the post’s specific worldwide ranking assertion, rather than disputing that Sri Lanka’s inflation was rising. The review notes important context: Sri Lanka’s inflation had increased in recent months, and reports described it as rising rapidly in Asia. It also cites an economist’s view that annual international rankings did not yet reflect the sharp increases experienced in Sri Lanka over the preceding months. Separately, the image search identified the pictured banknotes as currency discarded by robbers after a 2019 bank robbery in Venezuela—not as money thrown away by Venezuelan residents. The review’s conclusion is that the post’s photographs were misleading and its claim that Sri Lanka ranked 12th was not borne out by the cited global indexes.

Vishvas NewsEconomy & business

লিখিছে যে চৰকাৰে নিবনুৱা যুৱকসকলক প্ৰতি মাহে ৩৫০০ টকা দিব। প্ৰধানমন্ত্ৰী নিবনুৱা ভাট্টা আঁচনি 2022 ৰ বাবে পঞ্জীয়ন আৰম্ভ হৈছে, এই আঁচনিৰ অধীনত, নিবনুৱা যুৱক-যুৱতীসকলক প্ৰতি মাহে 3500 টকা দিয়া হ’ব। এই লিংকৰ সৈতে এই মুহূৰ্তত আপোনাৰ ম’বাইলৰ পৰা পঞ্জীয়ন কৰক।

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

Vishvas NewsEconomy & business

বেনাৰখনত দাবী কৰা হৈছে যে তেওঁলোক লাকী ড্ৰ’ৰ বিজয়ী। ইয়াত অভিনেতা অমিতাভ বচ্চন, প্ৰধানমন্ত্ৰী নৰেন্দ্ৰ মোদী, ভাৰতীয় ষ্টেট বেংক আৰু বিভিন্ন মোবাইল অপাৰেটৰৰ ছবি থকা এটা লটাৰী নম্বৰৰ কথাও উল্লেখ কৰা হৈছে। বেনাৰত এটা মোবাইল নম্বৰও লিখা আছে। বাৰ্তাটোৰ সৈতে এটা ভইচ নোট আছে য’ত দাবী কৰা হৈছে যে ব্যক্তিজনে নতুন দিল্লীৰ হোৱাটছএপ গ্ৰাহক কাৰ্যালয়ৰ পৰা ফোন কৰিছে।

Publisher’s rating: FALSE