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המשרוקית של גלובסPolitics & government

בשווייץ, הולנד וניו זילנד אין חוקה, בית המשפט לא יכול לפסול חוקים והנשיא או בית הנבחרים ממנים את השופטים

Publisher’s rating: לא נכון ברובו

The review assessed Shikli’s March 14, 2023 interview on Army Radio, where he compared Switzerland, the Netherlands and New Zealand, saying they had no constitution, their supreme courts could not strike down laws, and political officials appointed their top judges. It examined those claims country by country rather than treating the three systems as identical. The review’s conclusion was that the statement was mostly inaccurate: parts of the appointment claim were correct, but the constitutional and judicial-review claims left out important distinctions. [S1: “ציטוט: "בשווייץ, הולנד וניו זילנד אין חוקה… אסור לפסול חוקים… [והמינויים לעליון פוליטיים]"” and “בשורה התחתונה: דבריו של שיקלי לא נכונים ברובם.”] On constitutions, the review found that Switzerland and the Netherlands do have constitutions, while New Zealand lacks a single, formal constitution but has some constitution-related provisions protected by special amendment requirements. On courts’ powers, it distinguished review of laws for conflict with a constitution from review under international obligations: Swiss and Dutch courts cannot strike down laws on constitutional grounds, but the article says they can act where laws conflict with binding international law. New Zealand courts can declare legislation incompatible with the Bill of Rights, but that declaration is not a procedure for striking the law down. [S1: “לשווייץ והולנד דווקא יש חוקות, כולל הליכים מיוחדים לשנותן. בניו זילנד אכן אין חוקה מסודרת.” and “בשווייץ ובהולנד אכן אין סמכות לפסול חוקים שסותרים את החוקה, אבל כן ניתן לפסול בגלל סתירה לחוק בינלאומי מחייב”] The review found the appointment comparison closer to accurate, but qualified it. Swiss judges are appointed by politicians, yet approval requires a majority in both chambers of parliament. In the Netherlands, the lower house selects from a shortlist and the justice minister chooses; in New Zealand, the justice minister chooses after consultation with senior legal officials. The article notes that such consultation is not legally binding, while conventions may still matter. [S1: “בשווייץ הפוליטיקאים אכן ממנים את השופטים, אך יש צורך ברוב בשני בתי הפרלמנט” and “גם בניו זילנד שר המשפטים הוא זה שבוחר את השופטים, לאחר התייעצות עם נשיא העליון ופרקליט המדינה.”]

BR24 #FaktenfuchsPolitics & government

Drei Fotos von Putin würden nahelegen, dass es sich um unterschiedliche Personen handelt

Publisher’s rating: Irreführend. Die Aufnahmen in Geraschtschenkos Tweet sind zum Teil mit falschen Orts- und Zeitangaben versehen. Eine der Aufnahmen ist spiegelverkehrt, zwei stammen nicht wie behauptet aus unterschiedlichen Städten, sondern aus demselben Video aus Mariupol. Die Fotos eignen sich nicht als Beleg dafür, dass es sich um unterschiedliche Personen handeln könnte.

FACTLYPolitics & government

Video showing Indore collector’s controversial statements against Muslims for allegedly raising anti-national slogans in Ujjain

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim concerns a video said to show the Indore collector responding to Muslims who allegedly raised anti-India slogans in Ujjain. The review identifies the man in the video as Madhya Pradesh BJP MLA Rameshwar Sharma, not the Indore collector. It says Sharma’s remarks concerned people who raised anti-national slogans during a Muharram celebration in Ujjain. To investigate, the review describes reverse-image searches of video screenshots and searches using relevant keywords. Those searches led it to a video with similar visuals posted by ETV Bharat’s official Facebook account on 23 August 2021. The review says ETV Bharat identified the speaker as Sharma, and reports that ETV Bharat and Jan Satta published accounts of the incident in August 2021. The review also compares images of Sharma with those of Indore Collector Dr. Ilayaraja T (IAS). It concludes that the video shows Sharma, not the collector. This addresses the claim’s key identification: the video is connected to the Ujjain incident, but the speaker was misidentified as the Indore collector.

FACTLYPolitics & government

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi ranked second among the top 10 most corrupt Prime Ministers list released by Fox News

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim concerns a social-media clipping that purported to show Prime Minister Narendra Modi ranked second on a 2017 list of the world’s most corrupt prime ministers, supposedly released by Fox News. FACTLY reports that the clipping’s source was not the US-based Fox News organization: it was a site called Fox News Point. The review says that site published the list in July 2017, ranking Nawaz Sharif, Modi and Vladimir Putin as its top three. FACTLY describes checking the clipping and searching the internet for further sources using relevant keywords. It reports that the clipping itself displayed “foxnewspoint.com” above the list, and that the search identified the same site as the publisher. The review also says Fox News Point’s “About Us” section did not report any connection to the US-based Fox News company. The distinction is central: the list existed, according to the review, but the claim incorrectly attributed it to Fox News. The review further notes that Fox News had published articles about the most corrupt countries based on reports from Transparency International and other organizations, but says it did not publish the claimed ranking of prime ministers. It reports that Fox News Point is now unavailable and that its list did not explain the basis for the rankings or provide survey methodology. The evidence presented therefore supports the conclusion that the clipping was misattributed and that its ranking should not be represented as a Fox News report.

dpaPolitics & government

Het WEF zegt dat het Westen een één-kind-beleid moet invoeren voor blanke gezinnen.

Publisher’s rating: Dit is niet waar. Er is geen enkel bewijs te vinden dat het WEF de uitspraak heeft gedaan, noch de tweet heeft geplaatst.

The claim circulated through a Frontnieuws article shared on social media. That article said the World Economic Forum (WEF) had called for “a one-child policy” for white families in the West. The review traces the allegation to the English-language site Newspunch, whose version referred to a one-child policy in the United States and showed a supposed WEF tweet saying that “America must decrease its Caucasian population.” Frontnieuws changed the geographic wording from the United States to the West. The review reports several checks of the allegation. It says the alleged WEF statement did not appear on other reliable websites or in news articles, and that searches in Dutch and English led only to dubious sources. It also reports that the supposed tweet could not be found and that there was no evidence it had ever existed. The article notes that Reuters had already fact-checked the same claim earlier that month. A WEF spokesperson, Yann Zopf, told dpa by email that the WEF had neither made the statement about a one-child policy for white people nor posted the quoted tweet. Taken together, the review’s account of the search results, the missing tweet, and the WEF spokesperson’s denial addresses both parts of the allegation. It concludes that the claim originated with Newspunch, rather than reflecting a WEF policy or statement.

YouturnPolitics & government

திருமாவளவன் டெல்லியில் இருந்து கொண்டே தென்மாவட்டத்தை தீப்பிடிக்க வைக்க முடியும். சட்டம் ஒழுங்கை சீர்குலைக்க வைக்க முடியும், பேருந்துகள் ஓடாது, விமானங்கள் பறக்காது, ரயில்கள் இயங்காது.. அந்த நிலையை உருவாக்க முடியும்.

Publisher’s rating: Misleading

YouturnPolitics & government

8000 கோடிக்கு மோடிக்கு தனி விமானம் வாங்க பணம் இருக்கு 3 ஆயிரம் கோடியில் பட்டேல் சிலையை வைக்க பணம் இருக்கு உத்திர பிரதேச மருத்துவமனையில் ரத்தம் ஏற்றும் இந்த சிறுமிக்கு ஒரு படுக்கை, ஸ்டாண்ட் இல்லை.. பாஜக ஆளும் மாநிலங்களின் லட்சணம் இதுதான்.

Publisher’s rating: Mix

Fact Crescendo Sri LankaPolitics & government

ජාතික ජනබලවේගය සහ එහි නායකත්වය අළලා පළ වූ නොමග යන සුළු සටහන්!

Publisher’s rating: False

The review examines five social-media claims about Sri Lanka’s National People’s Power (NPP) and its leader, Anura Kumara Dissanayake. It reports that one image purported to show a large crowd at an NPP rally in Gampaha. The investigators used reverse-image search and compared the circulated image with the actual rally photograph; they concluded that the circulated image had been reconstructed by reusing the same people, rather than being an unaltered crowd photograph. The article also checked a post alleging an internal leadership revolt involving Chathuranga Abeysinghe. NPP’s media coordinator and Abeysinghe both said there was no leadership dispute. The remaining claims attributed statements to Dissanayake: that the NPP would end Samurdhi benefits, that people should not vote, and that he made a comparison involving sildenafil and a country’s currency. The review says it found no such Samurdhi statement in its monitoring of mainstream media and that the party’s 2019 policy document did not say Samurdhi would be stopped. For the voting claim, it identifies the video as a September 2021 comment made during the severe COVID-19 period, when Dissanayake argued against holding an election then—not a recent call to avoid voting. For the sildenafil-and-currency post, the review says it watched both parts of Dissanayake’s interview on the Hari TV YouTube channel, published on February 25 and March 1, and found that he made none of the quoted statements. The party’s media coordinator also said he had never made them. These findings address the specific posts and the contexts the review describes; they do not establish that every claim about the NPP is false.