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YouturnEconomy & business

வேலூர் மாவட்டம் திருப்பத்தூர் டவுனில், ஜூம்மா மசூதி தெருவில் கடந்த இரண்டு நாட்களாக, நள்ளிரவு 1 மணிக்கு நடு ரோட்டிலேயே சுமார் 700நபர்கள் தொழுகையில் ஈடுபட்டு வருகின்றனர். காவல்துறையினர் உயரதிகாரிகளின் உத்திரவிற்கு கட்டுப்பட்டு, அவர்களுக்கு எந்த தொந்திரவும்!!!? மற்றும் அங்கு இரவு பணியில் இருக்கும் காவலர்கள் எவரும் தமது தொலைபேசியில் புகைப்படமோ அல்லது வீடியோவை எடுக்கக்கூடாது!?? 😯 என்ற உயர் அதிகாரியின் உத்தரவுக்கு கட்டுப்பட்டு கையை பிசைந்து நிற்கின்றனர்.. சம்மந்தப்பட்ட காவல்துறையை சேர்ந்த நண்பர் ஒருவரின் மனக்குமுறல்..

Publisher’s rating: Fake

NewtralEconomy & business

Campaña de bonos solidarios de Cáritas donde rellenas tus datos personales

Publisher’s rating: Falso

The review examines a WhatsApp link promoting supposed solidarity food vouchers in Cáritas’s name. It says the message reused the organization’s logo and offered 800,472 available forms of aid, but identifies the linked page as fraudulent and the scheme as phishing. The page asked users for their full name and city in exchange for a promised food contribution delivered to their home. The review distinguishes the fake page from Cáritas’s official web address, www.caritas.es. It also quotes Cáritas’s guidance that people seeking assistance should contact the diocesan Cáritas in their region. That evidence supports the review’s conclusion that the circulated voucher offer was not a genuine Cáritas campaign, while clarifying that the organization does provide assistance through its stated channels. The article places the message in the context of earlier fraud attempts using Cáritas’s name and image. It reports that the organization had already warned of such attempts in early April and advises people to check for phishing before sharing personal information.

NewtralEconomy & business

La Seguridad Social te reembolsa 345 euros por correo

Publisher’s rating: Falso

The claim concerns an email purporting to offer a €345 reimbursement from Spain’s Social Security in exchange for personal and credit-card information. Newtral says it examined an email sent in by readers and describes the amount as €345.76. It warns that the ministry logo or an official-looking link does not make the message genuine. The supposed reimbursement is a lure to obtain recipients’ card details, not a payment offered by Social Security. Newtral reports that Spain’s National Cybersecurity Institute’s Internet User Security Office (OSI) identified the message as phishing: recipients are redirected to a fake page imitating the Social Security site, where their card information can be captured. The OSI also said the email creates urgency by setting a limited time to complete the supposed process. The review adds that the National Police had warned about the fraud on Twitter. The review advises checking whether the message is correctly written, whether its links lead to a legitimate site, and whether it includes unexpected or suspicious attachments. Those checks address the email’s presentation; the decisive evidence reported is that the supposed reimbursement leads to a deceptive page intended to collect payment-card information.

台灣事實查核中心Economy & business

【錯誤】網傳「3萬紓困補助...是從勞工自己的勞退金裡挪用的」？

Publisher’s rating: 錯誤

The review examined a social-media rumor that the NT$30,000 COVID relief payment was money borrowed from workers’ own retirement savings and would later have to be repaid. It identified the payment as a Labor Ministry living subsidy for self-employed workers and workers without a fixed employer—not a withdrawal from an individual worker’s retirement account. The review reports that eligibility included being insured through an occupational union by March 31, having insured wages of NT$24,000 or less, and having 2018 income below the taxable threshold. To check the funding claim, the fact-checking center says it asked the Labor Ministry about the subsidy and obtained central-government special-budget documents through the office of legislator Chiu Tai-yuan, then convener of the Legislative Yuan’s Social Welfare and Environmental Hygiene Committee. The ministry said the subsidy was funded through a special budget, rather than retirement funds. The review describes an original COVID-19 budget of NT$60 billion and an additional NT$150 billion; it says the Labor Ministry’s relief budget, including this subsidy, was included in the additional budget. The review also cites the additional-budget proposal, which states that revised total spending was NT$210 billion, financed by NT$30 billion in prior-year surplus and NT$180 billion in borrowing. It quotes a professor of public administration, Hsu Jen-hui, explaining that the government could not freely use the labor retirement fund and that the special budget was financed through government funds and bond issuance. Taken together, the evidence presented distinguishes the relief payment’s budgetary funding from workers’ individual retirement accounts and the labor retirement fund.

Pagella PoliticaEconomy & business

«Tra il precedente decreto e quello in arrivo siamo già a un extra deficit di 80 miliardi»

Publisher’s rating: Vero

The claim concerns Stefano Patuanelli’s 28 April 2020 statement that the “Cura Italia” decree and the decree then being prepared would together produce €80 billion in extra deficit. The investigation checked that figure against estimates in the government’s Economic and Financial Document (DEF), approved on 24 April. It explains that “deficit” here means net borrowing, and that the DEF’s figures were estimates subject to uncertainty. The review identifies “Cura Italia” as the first measure and the forthcoming “decreto Aprile” as the second. The figures in the DEF put the net-borrowing impact of “Cura Italia” at almost €20 billion in 2020, and the projected impact of “decreto Aprile” at €55.3 billion that year. Adding them gives more than €75 billion—slightly below the €80 billion in Patuanelli’s statement, but close to it. The review therefore finds the stated amount substantially supported by the estimates, while noting the small difference between the claim and the sum of the two measures. The review distinguishes this additional borrowing from Italy’s total projected deficit. It says the DEF estimated 2020 net borrowing at about €173 billion, or 10.4 per cent of GDP, taking account of the decrees, recession-related effects and measures from the previous year. It also cautions that the DEF figures were estimates made during an emergency and could change. Thus, the €80 billion refers to the two decrees’ estimated contribution, not the whole projected deficit.

YouturnEconomy & business

ஒவ்வொரு மாவு பாக்கெட்டுக்குள்ளும் 15,000 ரூபாய் ஏழைகளுக்கு காத்திருந்த அதிர்ச்சி டெல்லியில் ஏழைகள் வசிக்கின்ற பகுதிக்கு 23 4 2020 இரவில் ஒரு லாரி வந்தது அந்த லாரியில் கோதுமை மாவு ஒரு கிலோ பாக்கெட்டுகள் நிறைய இருந்தது வந்தவர்கள் இஸ்லாமிய சகோதரர்கள் எல்லோரும் வாங்க ஒரு பாக்கெட் மாவு இலவசமாக தருகிறோம் என்று கூறினார் ஒரு கிலோதானே என்று கொஞ்சம் வசதியானவர்கள் வந்து வரிசையில் நிற்கவில்லை ஆனால் பசி கொண்ட ஏழைகள் இரவு நேரம் என்பதால் வாங்கி சென்று வீட்டில் வைத்து உறங்கிவிட்டனர் மறுநாள் காலையில் சமைப்பதற்காக மாவு பாக்கெட்டை பிரித்தபோது பாக்கெட்டுக்குள் ரூபாய் 15000 இருந்தது பசித்த ஏழைகளுக்கு ஒரு கிலோ மாவு பெரிதென

Publisher’s rating: FAKE

Deutsche Presse-AgenturEconomy & business

Andere Länder, andere Maßnahmen: In einem Facebook-Post wird behauptet, dass Bürger in mehreren Ländern entlastet würden: "Türkei hat Steuern auf 1% gesenkt, in Bosnien Strom gratis, auch in Frankreich ebenfalls Wasser!" In Deutschland würden hingegen Rundfunkgebühren und Diäten für die Bundestagsabgeordneten erhöht, heißt es

Publisher’s rating: Weder der Strom in Bosnien noch das Wasser in Frankreich sind kostenlos. Die Aussage zur Steuersenkung in der Türkei ist stark verallgemeinert. Die Angaben zu Deutschland waren zum Zeitpunkt der Veröffentlichung (30. März 2020) korrekt. Mittlerweile hat der Bundestag jedoch beschlossen, in diesem Jahr auf die Erhöhung der Diäten zu verzichten.

Pagella PoliticaEconomy & business

«Non dimentichiamo che per sanità ed economia sono già disponibili i 540 miliardi di Bei, “Sure” e Mes»

Publisher’s rating: Nì

David Sassoli, then president of the European Parliament, made the statement in an interview with La Repubblica on 24 April 2020, commenting on the European Council’s decisions the previous day. The review finds that the €540 billion figure can be reconstructed from the three measures he named, but that describing the money as already available was inaccurate: the Council’s stated aim was to make the package operational from 1 June, and details of the ESM credit line were still unresolved. The review traces €200 billion to the European Investment Bank, €100 billion to SURE, and about €240 billion to the ESM. The first two figures were maximum amounts those instruments were expected to mobilize, not equivalent amounts of funds already available to spend: each depended on €25 billion in guarantees. The ESM figure, meanwhile, assumed that all 19 euro-area countries requested credit amounting to 2 per cent of their 2019 GDP. The review notes that this was considered very unlikely and that important terms of the credit line remained unclear. To check the claim, the review compares it with the European Council’s conclusions, the Eurogroup proposal and descriptions or estimates from the EIB and European Commission, alongside the figures for euro-area GDP. It reports that the Council described the package as worth €540 billion but said it would be operational from 1 June 2020. Thus, the headline total reflected the potential scale of the measures, while Sassoli’s assertion that the money was already available overstated their status at the time.