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dpaPolitics & government

Klaus Schwab du Forum économique mondial et Antonio Guterres, secrétaire général de l'ONU, ont signé un accord pour accélérer l'Agenda 2030.

Publisher’s rating: Le soi-disant Agenda 2030 tel qu'il est exposé dans la publication n'existe pas. Antonio Guterres et Klaus Schwab ont bien signé un accord de partenariat pour un programme de l'ONU, mais ce n'est pas celui mentionné sur Facebook.

The claim concerns a social-media post alleging that UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and World Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab signed an agreement for an Agenda 2030 involving economic collapse, climate and energy crises, and 15-minute cities. The review distinguishes that alleged agenda from the real UN programme and the real partnership agreement between the two organisations. It says the post’s supposed agenda does not exist as presented, although the two men did sign an agreement related to a different programme. [S1] The review reports that 191 UN members adopted the Sustainable Development Agenda in September 2015. Also called Agenda 2030, it contains 17 sustainable-development goals, including economic growth, gender equality, sustainable consumption and production, and reducing inequalities. On 13 June 2019, Guterres and Schwab signed a strategic partnership agreement to accelerate implementation of this UN agenda. The quoted introduction describes the partnership as an effort to advance a global plan for peace, prosperity and a healthy planet—not the collection of predictions attributed to it in the post. [S1] The review compares the post’s specific themes with the programme: it says none of the suggestions in the post is among the 17 goals, and reports that the alleged agenda could not be found on UN or WEF websites. It also addresses the post’s pandemic reference: Event 201 was a 2019 pandemic simulation conducted by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, and the center said it was an exercise, not a prediction. The review further says the post’s climate-crisis and 15-minute-city entries are not part of the alleged UN agenda. [S1]

Boatos.orgPolitics & government

Estados Unidos, rompem relação com o Brasil enquanto Lula for presidente

Publisher’s rating: Falso

The claim was that the United States had broken relations with Brazil while Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was president. The review says the claim circulated alongside a TV Cultura news clip and a message asserting that the break would last for Lula’s presidency. It concludes that no such break was announced in 2023. The key context is that the clip did not concern Lula. According to the review, it came from a Jornal da Cultura report dated October 15, 2021, about a request by US congressmen that President Joe Biden break with Brazil while Jair Bolsonaro was president. The review says the request did not come to pass. The circulating message therefore changed the president named in the underlying report and presented an unfulfilled request as though it were a decision that had happened. The review characterizes the shared clip as cut and notes that the message also had alarmist wording and Portuguese errors. Its central correction rests on the clip’s date and the difference between what lawmakers requested in 2021 and what the viral claim alleged about US action in 2023.