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Elections & voting fact checks

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Fact CrescendoElections & voting

Claim: DMK not made this promise in election manifesto

Publisher’s rating: Partly False

The review investigated a social-media meme that attributed a promise of a government job for one person in each household to the DMK. It says the meme was shared on Facebook by an account named Saravanan Swamy S on June 21, 2020, and that it combined this claim with complaints about several other alleged unfulfilled promises. The review narrowed its examination to specific assertions in the post, including whether the DMK had promised household employment and whether it had said it would not fulfil its election promises. To check the jobs claim, the review says it examined the DMK’s election manifesto. It reports finding no such promise there, and says the promise had instead been made by the AIADMK during the 2021 Assembly election. This directly contradicts the meme’s attribution of the household-jobs pledge to the DMK. The supplied excerpt does not identify the relevant AIADMK manifesto wording or reproduce a document image, so the basis described here is the review’s account of its manifesto check. The review also distinguishes the jobs claim from the meme’s broader list of alleged failures. It notes that the DMK manifesto contained 505 announcements and seven assurances, and discusses several other items individually, including the party’s stated approach to NEET and fuel prices. Its conclusion is that the post combines false information with other claims; it does not establish that the DMK had made the household-jobs promise. The review’s finding on this specific claim is that the promise was wrongly attributed to the DMK.

BBC Reality CheckElections & voting

Voter registration numbers were inflated in Ethiopia

Publisher’s rating: We can't confirm whether the figures given by Ethiopia's Electoral Board (NEBE) reflect voter populations accurately (the last census was carried out in Ethiopia in 2007), the posts being shared provide no evidence to back up their claims of manipulation.