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Politics & government fact checks

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

12,741 published reviews in this topic

FACTLYPolitics & government

Rahul Gandhi stated that the Indian Army could be replaced by workers, farmers, and laborers to protect India from China

Publisher’s rating: MISLEADING

The claim concerns a video in which Rahul Gandhi appears to say that using India’s labourers, farmers and workers would mean the country would not need its Army and Air Force to protect it from China. The review identifies the footage as Gandhi’s interaction with the weaver community in Tamil Nadu on 24 January 2021, rather than a proposal to replace the armed forces. [S1]

DoğrulaPolitics & government

Netanyahu’nun oğlunun otelde çekilen fotoğrafının güncel olduğu iddiası

Publisher’s rating: Yanlış

The claim concerned a photo presented as showing Yair Netanyahu relaxing at a luxury hotel in Miami while Israel was at war. Doğrula reports that it investigated the image’s location and date, rather than finding evidence that the photo documented a current trip. The review says its examination of Yair Netanyahu’s Instagram account found no image indicating a Miami visit, and that it found no relevant news report about such a visit. Those checks do not by themselves establish where the photo was taken; the review then describes tracing the image’s earlier provenance.

dpaPolitics & government

Joe Biden a déclaré qu'il était né en Israël.

Publisher’s rating: Joe Biden n'a pas déclaré être né en Israël. Il s'agit d'une mauvaise traduction d'une phrase de son discours, prononcé en anglais, dans laquelle il revient sur la création de l'Etat hébreu.

The claim arose from a speech Joe Biden gave in Tel Aviv on 18 October 2023 during a visit to Israel. The dpa review says social-media posts presented a line from that speech as an admission that Biden himself was born in Israel, contrasting it with the official account that he was born in Pennsylvania. The review identifies the disputed passage as part of Biden’s remarks about Israel’s founding and safety for Jewish people, not a statement about his own birthplace. [S1] To check the interpretation, the review points readers to the full speech on YouTube and a transcript published on the White House website, and says the disputed excerpt can be heard from about 5:20 in the video. It gives the complete sentence in French translation and distinguishes the English words Biden spoke: “That’s why it was born,” referring to the State of Israel, rather than “That’s where I was born.” The review says the transcript also records the former wording. [S1] The review further notes a possible source of confusion: YouTube subtitles showed “I” where Biden said “it.” It describes these as automatically generated speech-recognition subtitles, not an official translation, and notes YouTube’s warning that errors can occur. The review also reports that Russian channels helped spread the claim, including a Telegram post, and that Russia’s TASS news agency relayed it. Its account concludes that Biden said the state of Israel was born to be a safe place for Jewish people; he did not say that he was born there. [S1]

FACTLYPolitics & government

Recent video of Israel’s envoy to the UN tearing up a Human Rights Council report against Israel at the UN General Assembly

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

FACTLY examined a social-media video presented as recent footage of Israel’s UN envoy tearing up a Human Rights Council report during the UN General Assembly amid the Israel-Palestine conflict. Its review identifies the person in the footage as Gilad Erdan, then Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, and says the video actually shows an event from 2021. The central issue is therefore not whether the tearing occurred, but whether this footage documented a recent event connected to the ongoing conflict. The review reports that it searched for the video using relevant keywords and found the same footage in a Times of Israel article dated 30 October 2021. According to the review, that article reported that Erdan tore up the UN Human Rights annual report at the General Assembly podium on 29 October 2021. FACTLY also points to Erdan’s post of the same video on X on 30 October 2021, in which he described criticizing the Human Rights Council’s annual report. These dated references place the footage years before the claim’s suggested current setting. FACTLY’s account identifies the document as the Human Rights Council’s annual report and describes Erdan’s action as a demonstration of his disapproval of what he viewed as the organization’s bias against Israel. Thus, the footage does show the envoy tearing up a report at the UN General Assembly, but the review’s evidence dates that scene to October 2021. The claim’s misleading element is presenting old footage as recent and linking it to the then-ongoing conflict.

مرصد أخبار ميترPolitics & government

مندوبة كوبا تدافع عن حقوق الفلسطينيين ضد سفير إسرائيل في اجتماع اليونسكو

Publisher’s rating: الفيديو صحيح، لكن قديم، يعود إلى عام 2017

The claim concerns a video said to show Cuba’s UNESCO representative, Dulce María Rodríguez, defending Palestinian rights in a confrontation with Israel’s ambassador, and presented as connected to current events. The review says it examined the circulated clip and the claim that it was recent, then traced the footage to a UNESCO meeting in 2017. It identifies Rodríguez as the Cuban representative and says the exchange followed a request by Israel’s ambassador to observe a minute of silence for Jewish victims of the Holocaust. In the review’s account, Rodríguez objected that only the meeting’s chair could call for such a minute of silence. She also characterized the request as political manipulation. The review says that, later in the same footage, she asked the chair to allow a minute of silence for Palestinians killed by the Israeli army, after which the assembly applauded and the request was allowed. This sequence places the clip in the context of a particular meeting exchange, rather than the current events to which social-media posts linked it. The review’s conclusion is that the video is from 2017 and is not related to the then-current events. Thus, the footage does show the described exchange, but its presentation as recent omits its earlier date and meeting context. The supplied excerpt does not specify the particular archival or technical methods used to establish the date, so no further verification method can be attributed to the review.

tafnied - تفنيدPolitics & government

بينما تم إقرار منحة استثنائية بقيمة ألف دينار لكل نائب في مجلس النواب، قرر المجلس أيضا سحب مشروع قانون تجريم التطبيع

Publisher’s rating: الادعاء "مضلل"، إذ لم يسحب مجلس النواب مشروع قانون تجريم التطبيع، بل شهد مشروع القانون تعديلًا إجرائيًا ومازال مطروحًا في البرلمان

تيقنPolitics & government

في تصريح اليوم على صحيفة يديعوت عضو الكنيست الصهيوني موشي ناتال المتطرف،‏ "قيس سعيد أخطر على اسرائيل من صدام حسين وجمال عبدالناصر أحمد الرب أن ليس بيننا وبينهم حدود ولا يملك مقومات مصر والعراق"

Publisher’s rating: الحقيقة أن الادّعاء غير صحيح ولم يرد عبر صحيفة يديعوت أحرنوت العبرية. نفى فريق الترجمة العبرية في تيقّن ورود الخبر عبر صحيفة يديعوت أحرنوت العبرية، مؤكدًا عدم وجود عضو في الكنيست الإسرائيلي يحمل اسم "موشي ناتال".

Fact CrescendoPolitics & government

UN में इजरायल को समन किया, कि उसने मानवाधिकार का उल्लंघन किया है उसे 20 पन्नों की रिपोर्ट दी। इजरायल के प्रतिनिधि 2 मिनट के लिए स्टेज पर आये और आरोप पत्र “फाड़े”और चले गये यह होता है एक खुद मुख्तार देश।

Publisher’s rating: False

tafnied - تفنيدPolitics & government

في تصريح اليوم على صحيفة يديعوت، عضو الكنيست الصهيوني موشي ناتال المتطرف، يصف الرئيس التونسي قيس سعيد بأنه أخطر على الكيان من صدام حسين وجمال عبد الناصر، وأنه يحمد الرب أن ليس بينهم وبينه حدود ولا يملك مقومات مصر والعراق

Publisher’s rating: الادعاء "غير صحيح"، حيث لم يرد هذا التصريح عبر صحيفة "يديعوت أحرونوت"، كما لا يوجد عضو بالكنيست الحالي يُدعى "موشيه ناتال"

تيقنPolitics & government

"أمير قطر يغادر قبل إلقاء كلمته بسبب وصف الأمين العام أبو الغيط المقاومة الفلسطينية بالعصابات الارهابية".

Publisher’s rating: الحقيقة أن الفيديو قديم. بحث فريق تيقّن في الفيديو وتبيّن أنه نُشر عبر الانترنت قبل حوالي ٤ سنوات، حيث عثر عليه الفريق منشورًا عبر قناة العربية في يوتيوب بتاريخ ٣١ مارس ٢٠١٩ مُرفقًا بعنوان جاء فيه: "لماذا غادر أمير قطر القمة العربية بشكل مفاجئ؟". في حين عاد فريق تيقّن إلى الكلمة التي ألقاها الأمين العام أبو الغيط يوم ٢١ أكتوبر ٢٠٢٣ ولم يرد فيها أي وصف لحركة حمـ ـاس ب"العصابات الإرهابية".