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

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Vera FilesPolitics & government

Congress removed Sara Duterte from her post as vice president

Publisher’s rating: False

Related reporting describes impeachment proceedings against Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte, but does not report that Congress had removed her from office. A Reuters report published on March 4, 2026, says lawmakers in the House of Representatives’ justice committee ordered Duterte to respond to impeachment complaints after finding substance to allegations including misuse of public funds and public threats against President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. The report describes a step in the process, not a completed removal. The decisive qualification is that removal would follow only if the Senate convicted her at trial. Reuters states: “If convicted by the Senate at trial, Duterte would be removed from office and disqualified from holding any future government position.” It also explains that the House would consider her response and the complainants’ reply before voting on whether an impeachment trial should proceed. Thus, the supplied reporting distinguishes advancing complaints from an actual removal. The accounts also say Duterte had survived an earlier impeachment bid. Reuters reports that the Supreme Court struck that bid down for violating constitutional safeguards. These excerpts support the conclusion that the reported proceedings did not establish that Congress had removed her; they do not provide the original Vera Files review or its checking methods.

Fact CrescendoPolitics & government

Claim: Irrelevant visuals shared as dmk govt paying monthly rs 1000 to women to drink

Publisher’s rating: ஃபேக்ட் கிரஸண்டோ ரேட்டிங்: FALSE

The claim attached a photograph of women drinking and a video of an older woman drinking to Tamil Nadu’s monthly ₹1,000 women’s-rights grant, implying that recipients had spent the money on alcohol. The review says a reader submitted the photograph with a caption making that connection. It also traced a social-media post combining the photograph and video to a Facebook account named Sivanesh S. Shiva on the KODAVASAL page, posted on October 9, 2023. The review’s investigation focused on whether the images could actually depict grant recipients drinking after the scheme began. For the photograph, the fact-checkers used a Google reverse-image search. They found it in a blog post dated October 30, 2016, and in a Facebook post from 2017. They could not establish where or when the photograph was originally taken, but those earlier appearances show it was circulating years before the grant began in September 2023. The review therefore found no basis for linking this photograph to the scheme. For the video, the investigators converted frames into still images and searched them with Google reverse-image search. They could not determine where or when it was filmed, but found the video posted on YouTube in 2018. The review notes that Tamil Nadu was under an AIADMK-led government from 2011 to 2021, before the DMK government took office in May 2021. Since the video was online in 2018 and the grant started in 2023, it cannot show women spending that grant. The evidence establishes that the circulated images predate the scheme; it does not establish the original location or circumstances in which either image was made.

Fact CrescendoPolitics & government

Claim: 2019 dated Uttar Pradesh video reshared now as Rajasthan bjp leaders attacking each other

Publisher’s rating: ஃபேக்ட் கிரஸண்டோ ரேட்டிங்: PARTLY FALSE

The claim concerned a video circulated in October 2023 as showing BJP leaders in Rajasthan fighting because of alleged dissatisfaction with candidate selection. Fact Crescendo describes the post’s caption as tying the alleged fight to BJP ticket distribution in Rajasthan. Its investigation instead traced the footage to an earlier altercation in Uttar Pradesh, so the video did not establish that the claimed Rajasthan event had occurred. To trace the clip, the review says it converted video frames into images and searched them using Google reverse image search. It reports finding that the footage had appeared in coverage from March 2019 and that the incident took place in Sant Kabir Nagar, Uttar Pradesh, in front of journalists. The review also reproduces an ANI post identifying the people in the footage as BJP MP Sharad Tripathi and BJP MLA Rakesh Singh and dating their altercation to March 6, 2019. The review’s account of the 2019 dispute is that Tripathi objected to his name being absent from a foundation stone for a local road project. After an argument with the MLA, Tripathi removed his shoe and struck him; other BJP officials tried to intervene, and a police officer eventually separated them. Thus the clip showed a real fight between BJP politicians, but the review’s evidence places it in Uttar Pradesh in 2019—not Rajasthan amid the 2023 candidate-selection process.

بيم ريبورتسPolitics & government

مهاتفة «البرهان» بـ«نتنياهو» وتبليغه التعازي في «أسر الضحايا»

Publisher’s rating: مفبرك

The claim concerned a purported phone call in which al-Burhan told Netanyahu that he offered condolences to victims’ families and urged the parties not to escalate. The review says the claim circulated as text inside an image framed as a news item from “Al Jazeera Sudan,” attributing the report to Reuters and Israel’s Channel 2. To check it, Beam Reports says its team searched the official Al Jazeera Sudan Facebook page and found no item supporting the claim. The team also searched Reuters’ official website and the Israeli channel’s website, reporting that it found no statement confirming the alleged call. The evidence described in the review therefore consists of the absence of corroboration on those named sources; the excerpt does not provide independent confirmation of a call or further details about the image’s origin.

FACTLYPolitics & government

The viral video shows the Chief Secretary of the Taliban praising BJP and RSS

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The viral clip was presented as showing the Taliban’s Chief Secretary praising the BJP and RSS, including claims that no country would attack India while the BJP was in power. FACTLY identifies the man in the video as Khalid Mehmood Abbasi, an Islamic preacher based in Islamabad, Pakistan—not a Taliban official. It reports that Abbasi worked with Tanzeem-e-Islami for 30 years, left in 2018, and founded Shubban-ul-Muslimeen. The review says it found no information linking either organisation to the Taliban. [S1] To investigate the clip’s provenance, FACTLY describes searching online for the video and finding a longer video with the same visuals. That video was uploaded on YouTube on 3 August 2021, but appeared to have been recorded on 1 March 2019. FACTLY says the viral clip was cut from the longer video, from 0:53 to 3:31, and notes that the video’s title identifies Abbasi. [S1] The review also compares the viral interpretation with what it says is audible in the video: Abbasi discusses the ideas, policies and power of the RSS and related Sangh Parivar organisations, but does not say that no country would attack India while the BJP was in power or that the BJP must be removed before India could be attacked. FACTLY further reports that The Quint spoke with Abbasi in September 2021 and quoted him denying that he was the Taliban’s Chief Secretary or had links to the Taliban or any political party. Taken together, the identification, earlier recording date and omitted speech context contradict the video’s attribution and the claim about what Abbasi said. [S1]