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Elections & voting fact checks

Explore claims publishers have checked about elections & voting. Read their original ratings and follow the evidence.

5,415 published reviews in this topic

YouturnElections & voting

வேட்பாளர்கள் எவ்வளவு பணம் கொடுத்தாலும் பரவாயில்லை வாங்கிக் கொள்ளுங்கள். அது அத்தனையும் அரசாங்கத்தை ஏமாற்றி அவர்கள் திருடி ஊழல் செய்த உங்கள் பணம் தான், மக்கள் பணம் தான். ஆனால், உங்கள் ஓட்டை நல்லவருக்கு போடுங்கள்.. சத்தியமே செய்திருந்தாலும் ஊழல் கட்சிகளுக்கு போடாதீர்கள். தெய்வம் நல்லதுதான் செய்யும். தண்டனை தாராது – திரு. சகாயம் IAS.

Publisher’s rating: Fake

Fact CrescendoElections & voting

Claim: DMK Leader MK Stalin denied Hindus vote

Publisher’s rating: Fact Crescendo Rating: False

The claim concerned a viral image made to look like a tweet from DMK leader M.K. Stalin. It purported to say that people who go to temples should not vote for the DMK; some posts framed this as Stalin saying the party did not want Hindu votes. The review says the image was being recirculated during the 2019 election period, although it described the allegation as originating in March 2018. To check it, Fact Crescendo says it searched Google for evidence about the post and found a statement on Stalin’s official Twitter account. In that statement, Stalin said that a fabricated image imitating his Twitter page had circulated and that it attributed views to him that he had not expressed. The review also reports that R.S. Bharathi, the DMK’s organising secretary, filed a complaint with Chennai police over the image. The review concludes that the image was not a genuine post by Stalin but a fabricated one being shared again. That evidence addresses the specific attribution behind the claim: the apparent screenshot was not proof that Stalin had said he did not want temple-goers’ or Hindus’ votes. The review labels its result “False.”