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Elections & voting fact checks

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

5,412 published reviews in this topic

FACTLYElections & voting

The viral video shows Khan Sir accusing the NDA of vote theft in Bihar after the 2025 Assembly election results.

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

FACTLY says the viral video is a deepfake and that Khan Sir made no such public statement after the election results. It identifies the source footage as a 31 July 2024 clip of him discussing an educational institute’s infrastructure, and cites mismatched lip-sync, altered audio and AI analysis as evidence of manipulation.

FACTLYElections & voting

The videos show protests held in Bihar after the NDA’s victory in the 2025 Bihar Assembly Elections.

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

FACTLY found no credible reports of large-scale protests in Bihar after the NDA’s victory and said none of the five viral videos showed such protests. It identified the clips as footage of Zubeen Garg’s last rites in Assam, a bullock cart race in Maharashtra, protests in Nepal, a Youth Congress rally in Raipur, and an RJD candidate’s Bihar campaign before the results.

Deutsche WelleElections & voting

NYC Fire Chief resigns over mayoral election

Publisher’s rating: DW Fact check: True. Posts on Xand TikTokclaiming that thousands of New York Police Department (NYPD) officers had resigned following Mamdani's victory, or that trucking companies were suspending operations in the city, were falseor satire, but this one is true. NYFD Commissioner Robert Tuckerhanded in his resignationone day after Mamdani's election. The timing was unusual as the commissioner typically waitsfor a successor to be named before resigning. Tucker himself stated in an interview with the Israeli newspaper The Jerusalem Postthat he holds different opinions than the newly elected mayor, citing ideological misalignment. "I also think I could have functioned well under him but, ideologically, our feelings are different. Therefore, I think he deserves the respect of appointing his own commissioner, someone who may be more aligned with him ideologically than I am."

Deutsche WelleElections & voting

This video of Elon Musk explains "what is going on in America right now, why @ZohranKMamdani won in NYC, and what the risks are for our country and the world."

Publisher’s rating: DW Fact check: Fake. The user states: "If you want a glimpse of the future where we do not know what is real and what is fake, this is worth watching for that reason alone." While the user notes that he is "pretty sure but not totally sure that it is AI," he still treats the content seriously, saying: "What Elon says here is one of the most important things you will watch this year." It is a slippery slope to engage with AI-generated content as if it were genuinely spoken by the person depicted. Often, when such videos are reposted, the labels or descriptions of it being AI-generated disappear. The YouTube channel that uploaded the video on November 6 included a clear disclaimer, stating that it used "a synthesized voice that does not belong to Elon Musk" and explaining: "We use visual lip-syncing and dubbed narration to match the spoken words with on-screen footage, purely to enhance clarity, create a cinematic experience, and make the content more engaging for viewers." This serves as an example of how advanced AI‑generated content has become: the imitation of Musk's voice is indeed very convincing, although the image occasionally jumps or falls out of sync. AI‑generated videos represent a new way of putting words into the mouths of public figures. A more traditional approach is the fabrication of news articles, such as this oneclaiming how high-profile US lawyer Alan Dershowitz would react to Mamdani's win, which Dershowitz himself later deniedever making. It remains essential to verify the sources and ensure that statements are accurately attributed to the real person behind them.

FACTLYElections & voting

The video shows a woman beating a BJP leader in Bihar with slippers during the 2025 Assembly elections.

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The review says the video is from Nizamabad, Telangana, and shows a 2018 land-dispute confrontation involving TRS leader Gopi, not a Bihar election incident. It reports that police registered FIRs in connection with the incident. [S1: “It is from Nizamabad, Telangana, and dates back to June 2018”] [S1: “FIRs were registered at the Indalwai Police Station.”]