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Pagella PoliticaEconomy & business

«Ricordiamo, inoltre, che sono stati stanziati 3,8 miliardi, a regime, per il rinnovo dei contratti dei dipendenti della Pubblica Amministrazione… »

Publisher’s rating: Vero

The claim concerns funding for renewing public-administration employees’ contracts. The review places it in the debate over a planned 9 December 2020 strike by public-sector employees. Roberta Alaimo argued that €3.8 billion had already been allocated; the review says it checked that figure and found it correct: “La parlamentare sostiene però che siano già stati stanziati 3,8 miliardi di euro per il rinnovo dei contratti della pubblica amministrazione. Abbiamo verificato e la cifra riferita da Alaimo è corretta.” To assess the total, the review examined the 2021 budget bill and cited a parliamentary dossier on earlier appropriations. The bill under consideration provided €400 million from 2021 for public-sector collective bargaining and economic improvements for state employees. The review says those funds supplemented amounts in the 2019 and 2020 budget laws: nearly €1.8 billion and €1.6 billion, respectively, also from 2021. It therefore calculated a total of about €3.8 billion across the three budget laws: “I due provvedimenti stanziavano, rispettivamente, quasi 1,8 miliardi di euro e 1,6 miliardi a partire dal 2021 per la contrattazione collettiva nazionale. In totale, quindi, lo stanziamento per il rinnovo dei contratti ammonta a circa 3,8 miliardi di euro”. The review also identifies an important qualification: the full €3.8 billion was not newly provided in the 2021 budget bill. It says only €400 million was added by that bill, while the larger figure includes earlier appropriations. It cites Cisl secretary Annamaria Furlan’s 19 November comment that “il governo ha stanziato solo 400 milioni con la manovra 2021” and concludes that the total is correct when the three budget laws are counted together: “Sommando le cifre stanziate dalle ultime tre leggi di Bilancio per il rinnovo dei contratti pubblici si ottengono 3,8 miliardi.”

Pagella PoliticaEconomy & business

«I 209 miliardi del Recovery Fund sono diventati (forse) 14, al netto di condizionalità e riforme che vanno a togliere sovranità all’Italia»

Publisher’s rating: Nì

The review assesses a statement by Fabio Rampelli, a Fratelli d’Italia deputy and vice-president of the Chamber of Deputies, who wrote on Facebook on November 24 that Italy’s €209 billion in Recovery Fund resources had become €14 billion, while also objecting to conditions that limit national sovereignty. The review says the claim conflates the projected total allocation with one year’s grant funding, and that the claim of a newly discovered reduction is misleading. The review distinguishes the figures by period and type. It describes €209 billion as the July estimate of Italy’s total share, comprising more than €81 billion in grants and over €127 billion in loans. It then examines Italy’s 2021 draft budgetary plan, sent to the European Commission on October 19, 2020: that document provisionally projected €205 billion from Next Generation EU, spread across 2021–2026. For 2021, it projected €25 billion in all: €14 billion in grants and €11 billion in loans. Thus, €14 billion was not the replacement total for the €209 billion estimate; it was the grants-only portion projected for 2021. The review also addresses Rampelli’s qualification “forse” (“perhaps”) and his point about conditions. It says uncertainty about whether and when funds would arrive was warranted because European negotiations were still underway. It also considers the conditions real: access required states to submit national recovery and resilience plans setting out reforms and investments. The review concludes that the claim’s first part was false, while the doubts about finalization and the existence of conditions were justified; it assigns the overall statement “Nì.”

Vishvas NewsEconomy & business

நீங்கள் வெற்றிபெற எந்த அளவிற்கும் செல்ல வேண்டும், நீங்கள் முதலில் அவர்களுடன் சண்டையிடுவீர்கள், பின்னர் உங்களுக்குள்ளே சண்டையிடுவீர்கள், இவ்வாறு செய்கையில் யாரும் வேலைவாய்ப்பு குறித்து கவனம் செலுத்த மாட்டார்கள்,

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The review examines a viral image presented as a BJP announcement of an alliance with AIMIM for the coming West Bengal election. The sentence in the claim was written alongside the image by Facebook user Anil Sharma; the review says the image purported to show a tweet from BJP’s official account. Its investigation found that this supposed announcement was not authentic. 【S1】 To check the alliance claim, the investigators searched online for reporting about an AIMIM–BJP alliance. They say they found no such reports, while finding coverage of a different proposal: Asaduddin Owaisi had expressed interest in an electoral alliance with Mamata Banerjee. The review also checked BJP’s official account, BJP4INDIA, and reports finding no tweet like the one in the viral image. 【S1】 The review adds two further checks: it reports that a November 20 tweet by BJP president JP Nadda described Owaisi’s party as a “social fracture,” and that BJP spokesperson Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga told the investigators the viral tweet had no truth to it. It concludes that BJP’s official account had not made the claimed announcement. These checks address the image’s attribution and the alleged alliance announcement; they do not establish that the quoted sentence was an authentic BJP statement. 【S1】

Pagella PoliticaEconomy & business

«Nonostante la pandemia le esportazioni di prodotti Made in Italy aumentano e le nostre aziende migliorano le loro vendite all’estero»

Publisher’s rating: Nì

The review examined Luigi Di Maio’s claim that Made in Italy exports were increasing despite the pandemic. It found that the figures he cited were accurate for particular comparisons: exports in September 2020 were 2.1 per cent higher than in September 2019, and exports in the third quarter were up 30.4 per cent compared with the second quarter. The review says these figures came from Istat’s foreign-trade release, published on 17 November. But it also notes that the quarter-on-quarter comparison and the September year-on-year figure do not establish that the export recovery was caused by the government’s Export Pact, signed in June to promote Italian exports.

Fact Crescendo Sri LankaEconomy & business

වසංගත තත්වය නිසා රේගුවෙන් නිදහස් කර ගැනීමට නොහැකි වූ අඟල් 82 Samsung රුපවාහිනී යන්ත්‍ර රුපියල් 13,500කට?

Publisher’s rating: False

The review investigated social-media posts claiming that 211 82-inch Samsung UHD televisions, supposedly held up at customs because of the pandemic, were available for LKR 13,500 each. It found that the posts were misleading rather than evidence of a genuine sale: the review says the posts appeared to imitate longer Facebook updates but offered no further details when expanded, and describes them as having been shared in a satirical manner. The article also says some users nevertheless treated the offer as real and asked for information. To check the image attached to the posts, the review traced it to a RedFlagDeals forum listing for a Samsung NU8000 82-inch television. That listing, dated February 12, 2019, showed a Costco price of US$2,989.99. The review also compared the claimed price with local and global prices: it reported a Sri Lankan listing above LKR 600,000 and a global price around US$2,500, while noting that one website showed the model as out of stock. The review further reports contacting a Sri Lanka Customs inspector, who said a television of this size would be subject to substantial taxes. Taken together, the image’s earlier commercial provenance, the mismatch between the claimed LKR 13,500 price and the prices cited, and the lack of an actual sale offer in the posts support the review’s conclusion that the purported customs-held stock was not genuine.

FACTLYEconomy & business

Government through ‘Ek Parivar Ek Naukri Yojana’ provides one job to every family

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The reviewed social-media video claimed that “Ek Parivar Ek Naukri Yojana” was being implemented in Sikkim and would be implemented across India. Its central promise was a government job for one member of every family. The review’s conclusion concerns that nationwide promise, not whether a scheme with a similar name might exist in a different setting: it says there was “no such pan India government scheme offering one job to every family.” The review reports that the Press Information Bureau (PIB) had addressed the same claim. It says PIB stated that the government had no plan to launch a scheme offering a job to a member of every family. The review also reproduces the PIB post, which says that the claim of a central-government scheme providing a government job to one person in every family was false and that the central government had no such scheme. As further checks, the review says it tested the application address shown in the video and looked for credible reporting on a nationwide plan. It reports that the address was not working and that it could find no credible source reporting such a plan. Taken together, the review presents the PIB denial, the nonworking application address, and the absence of credible reporting as evidence against the video’s claim that the scheme would be rolled out pan-India.

Factcrescendo SrilankaEconomy & business

50000 தமிழர்களுக்கு கனடாவில் வேலை வாய்ப்பு

Publisher’s rating: False

The review examines a Facebook post claiming that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau would arrange visas and jobs in Canada for the first 50,000 Tamils who shared the post. The post instructed users to share it with the hashtag #TNWelcomesPM and claimed Facebook would identify the first 50,000 people and pass their details on so they could be contacted for identity and education information. The review says the post appeared on the Jaffna News Facebook page on March 3, 2018. To check the claim, the review reports that its team contacted the Canadian High Commission in Sri Lanka. According to the article, the High Commission said there was no truth to the offer. The review also describes the claim as resembling other false Facebook posts about free Canadian visas, but the excerpt does not provide further details about those earlier checks. The review’s stated finding is based on the reported response from the Canadian diplomatic mission, which contradicts the post’s promise of a visa and job for people who shared it. The supplied text does not describe additional verification, such as examining the post’s Facebook data or contacting the page’s administrators.