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Video shows boycott of French products in Arab countries.
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
The claim concerns a video shared amid calls to boycott French products in 2020. Its captions described the footage as Arab countries dumping French goods. The review reports that this interpretation was wrong: the video showed spoiled chicken being disposed of in Saudi Arabia in 2016, rather than a boycott of French products.
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“We brought back your car industry [in Michigan]. Your car industry was finished. You would’ve had nothing left.”
Publisher’s rating: False
Ein Baumarkt soll angeblich Familien den Zutritt verwehren. In sozialen Medien verbreitet sich ein Foto eines Aushangs mit dem Logo der Baumarkt-Kette Bauhaus. Darauf heißt es: «auf Grund der aktuellen Situation ist das Einkaufen mit Kindern nicht erlaubt!» Facebook-Nutzer halten die Einschränkungen für echt: «Bei Bauhaus muss man seine Kinder jetzt vor dem Einkauf wie einen Hund vor dem Laden anketten», heißt es in einem Beitrag (hier archiviert).
Publisher’s rating: Das Schild ist echt, aber nicht mehr gültig. Es wird in einem falschen zeitlichen Zusammenhang verbreitet. Nach Angaben des Bauhaus-Konzerns stand das Schild im März 2020 kurzzeitig in einer einzelnen Filiale bei Hamburg, sei aber nach Beschwerden «unverzüglich» entfernt worden.
The claim concerned a Bauhaus sign saying that shopping with children was not allowed, and social-media posts presented it as a current restriction. The review reports that the sign was genuine, but that its circulation lacked the relevant timing: according to Bauhaus, it had appeared briefly in one store in the Hamburg area in March 2020 and was removed after complaints. The review says that shopping with children was allowed at the time of its investigation. To check the sign’s origin, the review notes a Facebook post dated 25 March 2020 that included the photo and named a Hamburg Bauhaus store. It also reports that Bauhaus confirmed the sign’s authenticity in response to a Deutsche Presse-Agentur inquiry. A company spokesperson described it as a single sign placed locally rather than under central direction, and said it was removed promptly once its existence became known. The review also gives the company’s explanation for how the sign came about: Bauhaus’s verified Facebook account said in October that it had been put up at one store at the start of the pandemic, because of difficulties local colleagues faced with family outings. The evidence therefore supports that the sign existed, but not the impression that a current, company-wide rule barred families from shopping with children.
“You see the number today? 33.1 GDP. The biggest in the history of our country by almost triple, right? Almost triple. Now it’s very much bigger than any GDP we’ve ever had."
Publisher’s rating: Lacks context
MINISTERIO DE ECONOMÍA DE PERÚ HACE UN LLAMADO EMPRESARIOS CHILENOS A INVERTIR EN EL PAÍS
Publisher’s rating: Falso
"Donald Trump crashed the economy that Barack and I left him. Like everything else he's left and inherited, he squandered it."
Publisher’s rating: Only after the onset of the pandemic did economic growth take a nose-dive. It has subsequently experienced a strong recovery.
The BBC examined Joe Biden’s campaign claim that Donald Trump had crashed the economy he inherited from Barack Obama. Its assessment distinguished the pre-pandemic economy from the severe downturn caused by coronavirus: it said growth did not nosedive until after the pandemic began, and that growth then recovered strongly. The review also qualified that recovery: by the time of its account, the economy had not returned to its pre-pandemic level. The figures the BBC cited show why the qualification matters. Economic output rose by an annualized 33% in the third quarter of 2020 after a record pandemic-related fall. But the review clarified that the actual US growth rate over July–September was 7.4%; 33.1% was the annualized measure. It also noted that the last three years of the Obama administration had seen a similar growth rate, 2.3%.
Dória nomeou chineses para PRESIDENTE e demais cargos da CPFL, não são descendentes, são estrangeiros!
Publisher’s rating: Falso
“He has caused the deficit with China to go up, not down with China. Up, not down.”
Publisher’s rating: False
विश्वास न्यूज को अपने वॉट्सऐप चैटबॉट पर जियो मार्ट की फ्रेंचाइजी दिलाने का दावा करने वाला लेटर मिला है। इस लेटर में उपभोक्ता को संबोधित करते हुए लिखा गया है कि उनकी लोकेशन जियो मार्ट की फ्रेंचाइजी के लिए अप्रूव हो गई है। इसमें एप्लिकेशन को आगे बढ़ाने के लिए प्रॉसेसिंग फीस के रूप में 32 हजार 500 रुपये मांगे जा रहे हैं। यूजर से मुंबई के किसी बैंक खाते में पैसे जमा करने को कहा जा रहा है।
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
"Queensland has had the worst unemployment record in Australia for the last four years thanks to Labor."
Publisher’s rating: Wrong
व्हाट्सअपवर स्टेटस ठेवून तुम्ही पाचशे रुपये कमवू शकता
Publisher’s rating: False
हिंदुस्तान टावर प्राइवेट लिमिटेड कंपनी कडून आल्याचे समजले आहे. त्यात दावा केला जात आहे कि हा अग्रीमेंट २० वर्षांसाठी असेल, ज्यात एक वेळा पेमेंट स्वरूपात ४० लाख रुपये मिळतील, या सोबतच २५ हजार रुपये भाडे महिन्याला मिळतील. तसेच १२ हजार रुपये महिन्याचे एका गार्ड चे देण्यात येतील. हे अग्रीमेंट खालील प्रमाणे आहे.
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
The claim concerns an agreement circulated on WhatsApp that purportedly came from Hindustan Tower Private Limited. It promised payment for installing a Jio tower: a 20-year agreement, ₹40 lakh upfront, ₹25,000 monthly rent, and ₹12,000 per month for a guard. The review says a user sent the agreement to Vishvas News’s fact-checking WhatsApp chatbot, and that its investigation found the approval letter to be false. The article’s conclusion is specifically that Jio does not take money in the name of installing a tower. [S1]
«Teatri, cinema, concerti, convegni: lo STOP a tutte queste attività, che generano il 17% del PIL, metterà in ginocchio migliaia di imprese e lavoratori»
Publisher’s rating: Pinocchio andante
The Modi government is responsible for 89.3 per cent debt-to-GDP ratio projected by the IMF for India
Publisher’s rating: MISLEADING
The post blamed the Modi government for India’s projected 89.3% debt-to-GDP ratio in 2020. The review accepts that the IMF projected that figure, but challenges the attribution of the full debt position to the central government alone. It says the figure covered borrowing by both the Union government and state governments. [S1]
"El Impuesto de Ganancias de Capital de Biden significa que cuando usted venda su casa deberá 40% de impuestos de sus ganancias! Deja que eso se asimile"
Publisher’s rating: Engañoso
Says Donald Trump "has caused the deficit with China to go up, not down."
Publisher’s rating: Mostly False