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Politics & government fact checks

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

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FACTLYPolitics & government

U.S Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s statements on Minority Persecution in India under the current BJP rule

Publisher’s rating: MISLEADING

The post claimed that U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, speaking during a meeting with India’s External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, cited several statistics about minority persecution under the current BJP government. The review identifies the setting as a joint press conference in Washington, D.C., on 11 April 2022, and says the viral post had circulated since that event. It reports that Blinken spoke about monitoring concerning developments, including a rise in human rights abuses by some government, police, and prison officials—not the statistics attributed to him in the post. [S1]

FACTLYPolitics & government

Visuals of Nirmala Sitharaman meeting her father, Narayanan Sitharaman

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim concerns a video said to show Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman meeting her father, Narayanan Sitharaman. The review identifies the scene instead as her visit to Siva Madam in Varanasi on 3 December 2022, where she met members of Mahakavi Bharathiyar’s family. It names the older man in the video as K.V. Krishnan, Bharathiyar’s great-nephew—not Sitharaman’s father. To investigate the video’s origin, the review says it ran a reverse image search on selected keyframes. That search led to a video posted on Sitharaman’s verified Facebook account on 3 December 2022; the post description says Siva Madam was where Bharathiyar stayed during a visit to Varanasi in the 1900s. The matching video and its stated setting connect the viral footage to the Varanasi visit, rather than establishing the claimed family meeting. The review also reports finding Sitharaman’s verified-account tweet from the same day, which included photos and video of her Siva Madam visit and said she met Bharathiyar’s family. It identifies Krishnan as the older man, and notes that the Press Information Bureau had posted an article about the visit the day before. These details support the identification of the gathering and the man in the footage.

YouturnPolitics & government

இந்திய தேசத்தின் நிதி அமைச்சர் தன் தந்தையுடன் அவரது வீட்டில். வீட்டை கவனியுங்கள். நம் ஊரில் சாதாரண கவுன்சிலர் பதவியில் இருப்பவர்களின் வீட்டை எண்ணிக் கொள்ளுங்கள்.

Publisher’s rating: Fake