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Economy & business fact checks

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Factcrescendo ThailandEconomy & business

มีการชุมนุมของแรงงานชาวเมียนมาเพื่อเรียกร้องให้ขึ้นค่าแรงเป็น 700 บาท เมื่อ 1 กพ 2568

Publisher’s rating: Misleading

The review says the images used to support the wage-protest claim came from earlier demonstrations, including events in 2021 and Bangkok Pride 2024. It reports that the 1 February 2025 gathering marked the fourth anniversary of Myanmar’s coup and was not a protest by Myanmar workers demanding a 700-baht daily wage.

PolitiFactEconomy & business

The U.S. has an egg shortage because the “Biden administration and the Department of Agriculture directed the mass killing of more than 100 million chickens.”

Publisher’s rating: Half True

Related reporting says Leavitt blamed Biden and USDA for the chicken deaths, and that about 108 million commercial egg-laying chickens had died since the avian-influenza outbreak began in 2022, through the virus or culling. It adds that culling is used to prevent the virus from spreading and was also USDA policy during Trump’s first term.