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Aditi ParidaEconomy & business

Message claiming Infosys supports NGO for giving financial aid

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim concerns a circulating message that tells high-scoring students from financially disadvantaged backgrounds to contact NGO Prerana for aid, and says the NGO is supported by Infosys Foundation. The review states that the message is false as a current offer: it reports that Prerana was not then supported by Infosys and therefore could not provide the assistance described through that arrangement. To check the message, The Quint says it searched for information about Prerana and Infosys and contacted Ram Shastri, the NGO’s secretary. Shastri said the message had first circulated “7-8 years back,” and confirmed that Infosys no longer supported Prerana, although there had been an association four years earlier. This history is important: the review does not say there was never an association, but explains that the old message presents a former relationship as current. The review also addresses the message’s practical instructions. Shastri said the listed phone numbers belonged to people who no longer worked with Prerana, and the article reports that the numbers were not functional. An Infosys spokesperson separately said the company was no longer in touch with Prerana and had nothing to do with the message. Together, these accounts support the review’s conclusion that the message was not a reliable route to financial aid at the time it was circulating.

NewtralEconomy & business

En las ciudadanos donde gobierna Podemos es donde más ha subido el alquiler

Publisher’s rating: Engañoso

The claim was made by Ciudadanos leader Albert Rivera during the Atresmedia leaders’ debate. It asserted that the cities with the largest rent increases were those governed by Podemos. Newtral’s brief explanation challenges that generalization by naming Málaga and Sevilla as places where rents were among those that had risen most, while noting that Podemos did not govern them. Those examples conflict with the claim that the greatest increases occurred in Podemos-governed cities. The excerpt does not provide rent-change figures, a comparison period, a list of cities, or details of how Newtral selected or compared the examples. It therefore supports the conclusion that the claim was misleading because of counterexamples, but does not let the reader independently assess the underlying rankings or quantify how rent increases differed across cities.

NewtralEconomy & business

Desde que usted llegó hasta que convocó elecciones, en España hay 126.000 parados más

Publisher’s rating: Falso

Newtral’s live fact-checking roundup identifies the claim as a statement Pablo Casado made to Pedro Sánchez during the Atresmedia debate. It reports that the data did not support Casado’s assertion. The supplied excerpt does not include the linked article’s figures, data sources, or calculation, so it does not show how Newtral reached that conclusion.

NewtralEconomy & business

La Comisión Europea dice que el déficit y la deuda son insostenibles

Publisher’s rating: Falso

The claim concerns a statement by Pablo Casado during the Atresmedia debate: that the European Commission says Spain’s deficit and debt are unsustainable. Newtral’s review of statements made during the debate marks that claim false and says the Commission’s report does not say this. The supplied excerpt is a roundup of debate fact-checks. It does not include the underlying report, explain which passages Newtral examined, or provide figures or other details to show how the report’s wording differs from Casado’s description. The available evidence therefore supports what Newtral concluded, but does not allow a fuller reconstruction of its analysis.

NewtralEconomy & business

En España hay 1,8 millones de familias monoparentales que la mitad está en el umbral de la pobreza

Publisher’s rating: Verdad a medias

During a televised election debate on TVE, Ciudadanos leader Albert Rivera said Spain had 1.8 million single-parent families and that half were at the poverty threshold. Newtral checked the statement against figures from Spain’s National Statistics Institute (INE), citing its Continuous Household Survey and its poverty-risk rate data. The review reports that the latest available survey figures at the time were for 2017. (S1) Those figures supported the 1.8 million count, but the poverty share was lower than the claimed half: 40.6% of Spain’s single-parent households were at risk of poverty. That is the key qualification in the review. It concerns households at risk of poverty, rather than establishing that exactly half of all such families were below a poverty threshold. (S1) The review’s distinction is therefore between a household count that its cited data support and a poverty proportion that overstates the reported figure. Its wording also identifies the measured population as “hogares monoparentales” (single-parent households), and specifies that the figures refer to 2017, the latest data then available—not a current estimate. (S1)