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

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FACTLYPolitics & government

BJP’s tweet calling journalist Deepak Chaurasia a dalali

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim concerns a screenshot presented as a BJP reply to journalist Deepak Chaurasia. The purported exchange included a post attributed to Chaurasia saying that if Trump could lose, the BJP could too, followed by a BJP reply calling him a “dalali” who had taken money and supported opposition parties. FACTLY examined whether the two accounts had actually posted the tweets shown in the image. FACTLY reports that it searched Chaurasia’s Twitter handle for the alleged post and found no such tweet. It also compared the screenshot with a normal tweet from Chaurasia and reported that the pictured tweets were morphed. The review further states that it found no BJP tweet making the alleged accusation. On that evidence, the screenshot does not establish that either account published the posts attributed to it, and the review concludes that the claim is false.

YouturnPolitics & government

திமுக மம்தாவோடு கூட்டணி பேசுவது நல்லதல்ல. கம்யுனிஸ்டுகளை வேரரறுத்த மம்தா பேனர்ஜியோடு திமுக உறவு வைத்துக் கொள்வதில் எங்களுக்கு உடன்பாடில்லை மம்தாவோடு திமுக முன்றாவது அணிக்கு முயன்றால் கூட்டணியை விட்டு வெளியேறுவதை தவிர எங்களுக்கு வேறு வழியில்லை கம்யூனிஸ்ட் மூத்த தலைவர் அருணன்.

Publisher’s rating: Fake

FACTLYPolitics & government

Recent picture of US President Joe Biden having ice cream in Ukraine’s capital city Kyiv

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

FACTLY examined a social-media image presented as a recent picture of US President Joe Biden eating ice cream during a visit to Kyiv. Its investigation found that the image combined two different photographs: an older picture of Biden eating ice cream in Ohio and a separate image of a street food centre in Kyiv. The review therefore concluded that the image did not show Biden eating ice cream in Kyiv. The investigation describes using reverse image search to find a similar photograph published by Reuters. The original Reuters image had a different background, and its caption identified the scene as Biden eating ice cream during a visit to Cleveland, Ohio, on May 27, 2021. FACTLY notes that this was before the Russia-Ukraine war began. It separately identified the background in the altered image as the Kyivska Perepichka street food centre in Kyiv. The misleading effect came from combining a genuine image of Biden in Ohio with a Kyiv setting, making the resulting picture appear to document a visit that the source image did not show. FACTLY also points to pictures taken during Biden’s visit to Ukraine, but the excerpt does not provide further details about those images.

Factcrescendo ThailandPolitics & government

พิธา ยืนยัน ถ้าไม่ตัด ก็จะขอลดเงินบำนาญข้าราชการ เพราะมันคือ “งบช้างป่วย” ไม่เป็นประโยชน์ต่อประชาชน

Publisher’s rating: Misleading

The claim attributes to Move Forward Party leader Pita Limjaroenrat a promise to reduce civil servants’ pensions, allegedly because the spending was a “sick elephant” and did not benefit the public. The review traces the “sick elephant” comparison to Pita’s parliamentary debate about the national budget in May 2022. It says he described civil-service benefits as a major budget item and compared the inflexible bureaucracy to a sick or cumbersome elephant—not that he proposed cutting pensions. According to the review, Pita discussed the growth in civil-servant pension spending and urged civil servants to help find ways to make the system more adaptable. It states that he “ไม่ได้กล่าวถึงการปรับลดหรือยกเลิกเงินบำนาญใดๆ” (did not speak of reducing or abolishing pensions), but instead raised questions about improving the bureaucracy’s ability to adapt. This is the central distinction: criticism of the system and discussion of its costs were presented in the viral post as a proposal to cut benefits, which the review says the debate did not contain. The review also reports that Pita rejected the allegation in an Instagram post, saying his party had never had a policy to abolish civil-servant pensions and describing its aims as improving budget management and public services. It adds that the party issued a clarification after meeting with a civil-servant pensioners’ network, affirming that it had never proposed cutting pensions. On the evidence presented in the review, the post turns a discussion of budget pressures and bureaucratic reform into a claim of a pension-cutting proposal.

dpa FaktencheckPolitics & government

Dies ist ein Zitat von Katrin Göring-Eckardt

Publisher’s rating: Für das angebliche Zitat gibt es keine Belege. Göring-Eckardt dementiert auf Nachfrage, dass der Satz von ihr stammt. Er geht mutmaßlich auf einen Nutzer zurück, der ihn schon vor mehreren Jahren als angebliche Satire verbreitet hat und immer wieder wieder mit gefälschten Politiker-Zitaten aufgefallen ist.

The claim concerns a share image attributing a specific remark to Green politician Katrin Göring-Eckardt: that it was shameful that more Germans were trying to take aid from refugees at charitable food banks. The review examined whether she had actually said those words. It reports that the image gave no information about when or where she supposedly made the statement, and that searches for its wording on Google and Bing produced no sources. The most direct evidence described is a response from Göring-Eckardt’s office in the German Bundestag to the German Press Agency: the office said the quotation was invented. The review also says it found no evidence that she had made the statement. Together, the absence of a traceable source and the explicit denial address the attribution itself, rather than merely the broader debate about migration. The review traces a possible earlier history through Correctiv’s 2019 research: older posts by a user labelled the image “satire,” but that label had been cut off in the versions then circulating. It further reports that Correctiv linked the quotation to a user who had drawn attention for similar purportedly satirical fabrications. This history suggests how the attribution may have spread, while the review describes the origin as possible rather than certain.

Fact CrescendoPolitics & government

ចៅហ្វាយ​ខេត្ត​ពោធិ៍សាត់​ស្លាប់​យប់​មិញ

Publisher’s rating: False

The claim under review was that Pursat’s incumbent governor had died the previous night. Fact Crescendo identifies the person as Khoy Rida and reports that the circulating post specified “19/02/2023.” The review distinguishes this claim from the death of Khoy Rida’s elder brother, Khoy Sokha, who had formerly governed the province and had died the week before.