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Elections & voting fact checks

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

5,413 published reviews in this topic

FACTLYElections & voting

Video shows BSP chief Mayawati declaring her support for the Congress party in the 2023 Madhya Pradesh state assembly elections

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The video is presented as showing BSP chief Mayawati endorsing Congress and Kamal Nath for chief minister ahead of the 2023 Madhya Pradesh assembly elections. The review says the video is fabricated: it combines earlier footage of Mayawati speaking to the media with a digitally overlaid voice mimicking her. The visuals, the review reports, came from an address in Lucknow on 13 July 2023.

FACTLYElections & voting

Digvijaya Singh changed his stance on Sanatana Dharma for political gain in 2023 Madhya Pradesh elections

Publisher’s rating: MISLEADING

The claim concerns a viral video presented as showing Congress leader Digvijaya Singh changing his stance on Sanatana Dharma to gain votes in the 2023 Madhya Pradesh elections. FACTLY examined the video’s original clips and compared them with Singh’s earlier statements. Its account says the clips instead show him distinguishing Sanatana Dharma from Hindutva and expressing adherence to Sanatana Dharma.

Fact CrescendoElections & voting

कांग्रेस पार्टी द्वारा किए गये अपमान से आहत बसपा सुप्रीमों मायावती जी ने अपने वोटरों के लिए की अपील। मध्यप्रदेश में कॉंग्रेस को हराने में ना छोड़े कोई कोर कसर, वोट बर्बाद करने से बेहतर है BJP को दे दें वोट – सुश्री मायावती जी।

Publisher’s rating: Altered

El Detector / Univision NoticiasElections & voting

Lionel Messi pidió el voto para “un cambio profundo” en las elecciones presidenciales de Argentina.

Publisher’s rating: Falso

The claim concerned a Facebook post attributing a call to vote for “un cambio profundo” to Lionel Messi ahead of Argentina’s November 19, 2023 presidential runoff between Sergio Massa and Javier Milei. The review reports that the post attributed the quote to Messi and presented it as a publication by Infobae. Infobae’s deputy director told the fact-checkers by email that the outlet had not made that post and that it did not appear on its social media accounts. The image was traced to a September 21, 2023 interview with comedian Migue Granados. The review says the same shirt and background appeared in an Infobae Instagram post about that interview, and that a reverse-image search connected the image to the interview published on YouTube. The reviewers say they checked the recording: Messi and Granados discussed personal and professional topics, including Messi’s family and life in Miami, but not politics or the candidates. The image in the circulating post was therefore a montage, not evidence of a political statement. The review also reports searches for “Messi Massa Milei voto cambio profundo” on Google, Yandex and Bing that returned no results. It concludes that there was no record of Messi making the attributed statement to another outlet either. These checks address both the claimed source of the quote and the underlying interview, rather than relying only on the image’s appearance.