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Folha de S.PauloPolitics & government

Post que circula nas redes sociais usando imagens de homens e mulheres dividindo banheiro coletivo. O conteúdo afirma que “Lula já colocou seu plano em prática”, insinuando que há interesse do governo federal em implantar banheiros unissex. A trilha sonora que acompanha o vídeo cita: “Faz o ‘L’ agora e vem, vem se lascar você também”.

Publisher’s rating: Falso

The review examined a viral post that used images of men and women sharing a communal bathroom to suggest that President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was putting a plan for unisex bathrooms into practice across Brazil. The video’s location, recording date and original source could not be established, so the footage itself does not demonstrate where or when the scenes occurred. The investigation reports that the Ministry of Human Rights and Citizenship (MDHC), through its LGBTQIA+ rights secretariat, said there was no such initiative underway. The review also found no reporting about a federal policy of this kind in news outlets that cover government policy. It describes the post’s implication—that the government would turn all bathrooms in Brazil into unisex facilities—as unsupported. In the review’s account, the video was being used out of context to suggest government implementation, while the post supplied no location or date for its images. The investigation’s conclusion rests on the ministry’s response and the absence of evidence for the alleged initiative, not on establishing the footage’s provenance. The source says that searches did not identify the original video, and that the apparent first-sharing account did not contain it in its feed. Thus, the clip’s origin remained unresolved, but the review found no basis for the claim that Lula’s government was implementing the alleged nationwide policy.

YouturnPolitics & government

அரசியல், அனுபவம், குடும்ப பின்னணி என எல்லாவற்றிலும் முர்முவை விட எனக்கு தகுதிகள் அதிகமுண்டு. அதனால் புதிய பாராளுமன்றத்தை நான் திறந்து வைக்கமுடியுமா? பிரதமர் திறந்துவைப்பதுதான் முறை; மரபு. – நிதியமைச்சர் நிர்மலா சீதாராமன்

Publisher’s rating: Fake

FACTLYPolitics & government

Visuals of PM Modi refraining from touching Indians in India suggesting his discriminatory attitude

Publisher’s rating: MISLEADING

The claim concerns a video contrasting two encounters: Modi interacting with the Indian diaspora abroad and an encounter with children in India. It presents his apparent lack of physical contact with the children as evidence that he is discriminatory towards Indians in India. The review says the first clip shows Modi with the Indian diaspora in Australia during a visit in May 2023; it identifies the second as footage of children behind barbed wire during his campaign for the 2023 Karnataka Assembly elections in Kalaburagi. The review reports using a reverse image search to identify the clips. It acknowledges that the full video of the Kalaburagi encounter shows Modi refraining from physical contact with the children. But it says that this isolated scene does not establish discriminatory behaviour: it points to other occasions when he engaged with people from diverse backgrounds in India and says that the clip alone cannot show a broader pattern or establish untouchability. The review also notes that Modi sometimes did not engage in physical interactions with the Indian diaspora during foreign trips, citing security concerns, unforeseen events or conflicting schedules as possible factors. Its conclusion is that the comparison does not, by itself, support the post’s sweeping allegation about his attitude towards Indians in India.

Fact CrescendoPolitics & government

ខ្ញុំ​អត់​យល់​ ហេតុ​អ្វី​ខ្មែរ​យើង​អ្នក​ធំៗ​ចូល​ចិត្ត​លើក​តម្កើង​ទង់​ជាតិ​យួន​នៅ​លើ​ទឹក​ដី​របស់​ខ្លួន​ឯង​ម៉្លេះ ចំណែក​យួន​គេ​មិន​ដែល​លើក​តម្កើង​ទង់​ជាតិ​កម្ពុជា​ទឹក​ដី​របស់​គេ​សោះ។

Publisher’s rating: Altered

Folha de S.PauloPolitics & government

Um post no TikTok reproduz vídeo no qual o deputado federal Gustavo Gayer (PL-GO) afirma que a Suprema Corte dos Estados Unidos decidiu que a tentativa brasileira de aprovar o texto que ficou conhecido como “PL das Fake News” é ilegal. O político declara que a imprensa brasileira não divulgaria a decisão do Judiciário norte-americano. Uma legenda inserida pelo usuário do TikTok afirma que, na gravação, o deputado está comentando a “intervenção dos EUA no Brasil”.

Publisher’s rating: Falso

The review examined a TikTok video in which federal deputy Gustavo Gayer invoked a U.S. Supreme Court decision to argue that Brazil’s proposed PL das Fake News was illegal and that Brazilian media would not report the decision. The post’s added caption characterized his video as commentary on U.S. “intervention” in Brazil. The review says the decision concerned content moderation by Google and Twitter, and that it could not interfere with the bill’s progress in Brazil’s National Congress or with cases before Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court concerning the Internet Civil Framework. The U.S. case, decided unanimously on May 18, concerned whether victims of terrorist attacks could hold Twitter and Google responsible for posts promoting the Islamic State on their platforms. The review describes attacks in Turkey in 2017 and Paris in 2015, and explains that the U.S. ruling maintained Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. It says the U.S. Supreme Court has no jurisdiction in Brazil and that the two countries have different laws governing social media. A constitutional-law professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro told the review that the U.S. decision did not affect whether Brazil’s bill would be approved. The review also rejects the claim that Brazilian media deliberately left the decision unreported: it names Folha, UOL, Jornal Nacional, Exame, O Tempo, and Poder360 as outlets that covered it. It reports that it found no U.S. government statement about an intention to intervene in Brazil over the bill. The review says it searched Brazilian and U.S. news coverage, consulted a constitutional-law specialist, and sought comment from Gayer and the TikTok poster; it reports that Gayer did not respond and the poster could not be contacted.

YouturnPolitics & government

பாரத தேசத்தின் அரசியலமைப்பு சட்டத்தை இயற்றும் பொறுப்பைத் தகுதியற்றவர்களிடம் நாத்திகரான நேரு ஒப்படைத்ததன் பலனை இன்று வரை அனுபவிக்கிறோம். அது போல இந்த முறையும் நடக்கக்கூடாது. பிரதமர் மோடி, ஜனாதிபதி முர்மு ஆகியோரை விட புதிய பாராளுமன்ற வளாகத்தைத் திறந்து வைக்க சங்கராச்சாரியார்களில் ஒருவரே தகுதியானவராக இருப்பார். ஜூனியர் – துக்ளக் ஆசிரியர் குருமூர்த்தி

Publisher’s rating: Fake

Belarusian Investigative CenterPolitics & government

Польские дальнобойщики требуют отменить санкции против России

Publisher’s rating: Это фейк. Польша обратилась в Европейскую комиссию с просьбой включить российские и беларусские полуприцепы в пакет санкций и ввести запрет на регистрацию компаний с российским и беларусским капиталом в Польше.