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Sabe o que é alguém (ele, Lula) sair da presidência com 11 containers de acervo e não ter onde por? Sair com cadeira, trono, com papel, com tudo que você possa imaginar… E onde estão esses bens?
Publisher’s rating: São enganosas as postagens que usam dados de 2016 para levantar suspeitas sobre a destinação de 559 itens recebidos como presentes em cerimônias como chefe de Estado pelo presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) em seus dois primeiros mandatos presidenciais. O Tribunal de Contas da União (TCU) fez, à época, auditoria no acervo, e determinou a localização e incorporação de 568 peças ao patrimônio da União. O processo foi concluído em 2020, em acórdão da Corte de Contas que considerou cumpridas as determinações.
President Biden said former Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari died six years ago
Publisher’s rating: False
Visuals of Union Minister Smriti dressed in inappropriate attire at the Indian Parliament.
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
The claim concerns a viral video said to show Union Minister Smriti Irani wearing inappropriate attire in the Indian Parliament. FACTLY reports that the footage instead shows actress Urfi Javed at a fashion event in Mumbai, not Irani in Parliament. To investigate, the review says it performed a reverse image search, which returned multiple older videos dated May 2023 that identified the person as Javed. It then reports finding the complete video, showing her in the same attire at the Beti Fashion Fundraiser show in Mumbai that month. These findings identify both the person and the event shown in the viral footage, contradicting the claim’s identification and setting.
Russia's President Vladimir Putin snubbed a handshake with France President Emanuel Macron.
Publisher’s rating: False
Mehmet Boynukalın’ın Atatürk hakkındaki paylaşımının gerçek olduğu iddiası
Publisher’s rating: Yanlış
Video gelekt van een geheime bijeenkomst van New World Order-wereldleiders.
Publisher’s rating: De bijeenkomst in de video was niet geheim en ook niet specifiek voor wereldleiders. Het gaat om een conferentie in 2015 van de Maleisische Perdana Global Peace Foundation. Het thema was New World Order en er werd tijdens de conferentie door sprekers beweerd dat een geheime elite de wereld controleert. Dat is een bekende complottheorie waar geen bewijs voor is. De video is ook niet gelekt. De hele conferentie is te zien op de website van Perdana.
The video was presented online as leaked footage of a secret gathering of world leaders who had signed a “New World Order treaty.” The review identifies the footage instead as a speech by Mahathir Mohamad, a former Malaysian prime minister, at a March 9, 2015 international convention about the New World Order. It describes the event as a conference of Malaysia’s Perdana Global Peace Foundation, founded by Mohamad, rather than a private meeting of global leaders. The review says the conference was publicly announced and the full event could be watched on the foundation’s website and YouTube channel. The investigation points to details visible in the video: a large sign behind Mohamad indicates the convention’s context. It also reports checking the foundation’s Facebook post summarizing the conference’s speakers and subjects; that post named no other world leaders. The review further notes that it found no photographs in image databases or news articles establishing that political leaders of the time attended. It checked travel and public schedules for several prominent leaders: Obama was not scheduled to travel to Malaysia that month, Xi was in Beijing on March 9, Hollande was in Paris, and Putin’s listed March travel was to Kazakhstan. The review also addresses the treaty and conspiracy elements of the claim. It says the conference opposed the supposed New World Order rather than promoting it, and that the “New World Order treaty” mentioned in the online post does not exist. Mohamad did speak about an alleged plan to reduce the global population to one billion, but the review reports no evidence for such a plan and identifies the secret-elite account as an unsubstantiated conspiracy theory. It concludes that the video was neither leaked nor evidence of a secret gathering of world leaders.
“A Boric no lo dejaron entrar sin corbata a la cena del nuevo presidente de Paraguay”
Publisher’s rating: Falso
Image of an IAS officer from Madhya Pradesh with her father on a flight
Publisher’s rating: MISLEADING
The claim concerns a photo of a woman seated beside an elderly man on a flight. The post identifies her as a Madhya Pradesh IAS officer and says she fulfilled her truck-driver father’s dream of travelling by plane. FACTLY’s investigation identifies the woman as Tamil writer Pon. Vimala, not an IAS officer.
Finally, Thaksin can step on Thailand’s soil
Publisher’s rating: False
Obama said, he wants ordinary people to 'surrender to powerful sovereign'
Publisher’s rating: False
Erramos quando demos a facada no Bolsonaro', essa é a fala do Zé Dirceu.
Publisher’s rating: Vídeo de entrevista do ex-ministro da Casa Civil José Dirceu (PT) é tirado de contexto e engana ao sugerir relação do Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) com a facada recebida pelo ex-presidente Jair Bolsonaro (PL) em 2018. Na entrevista, Dirceu fala sobre as eleições daquele ano e sua perspectiva de uma vitória petista, mesmo com a possibilidade de ocorrência de fatos imprevisíveis, como erros do PT ou o atentado a Bolsonaro. O corte realizado, legendas utilizadas e os comentários feitos distorcem o sentido do discurso ao sugerir que o erro do PT teria sido o atentado ao ex-presidente, apontando para uma ligação entre o partido e a facada. Esta ligação não foi identificada nos inquéritos policiais relacionados ao caso.
ஊடகத்திலும் பத்திரிக்கையிலும் தான் அன்புமணி கட்சி நடத்துகிறார் – எடப்பாடி பழனிச்சாமி
Publisher’s rating: Misleading