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Politics & government fact checks

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

12,749 published reviews in this topic

Boatos.orgPolitics & government

Urgente: o ministro das relações exteriores dos Emirados Árabes Unidos, o Jallim Habbei, disse que seu país não irá reconhecer Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva como presidente do Brasil

Publisher’s rating: Falso

The claim circulated online after Brazil’s 2022 election, naming “Jallim Habbei” as the UAE foreign minister and alleging that the country would not recognize Lula’s victory and would ask the UN for more transparency in the election. The review identifies this as the specific message it investigated, rather than a statement attributed to an actual UAE official. Its conclusion is that the claim is false. The review says the post itself offered no reliable source and contained alarmist language and Portuguese errors. It also points to the name “Jallim Habbei” as a clue: the article describes it as a cacophonic, invented-sounding name and says the supposed minister could not be found among UAE politicians. The review reports that it likewise found no information about the alleged decision by the UAE. The image accompanying the claim does not substantiate it either. According to the review, the person pictured was not “Jallim Habbei,” but UAE foreign minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, photographed at a meeting in Brazil in 2019. The article therefore distinguishes the real person in the image from the fabricated name and says the photo’s earlier provenance does not support the alleged post-election announcement.

RMIT ABC Fact CheckPolitics & government

The government's bill to establish a National Anti-Corruption Commission honours Labor's commitment before the election "in both form and substance".

Publisher’s rating: In the ballpark

The review assesses whether the National Anti-Corruption Commission Bill introduced by Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus on 28 September 2022 fulfilled Labor’s election commitment. That commitment was more specific than simply creating an anti-corruption body: Labor’s platform described a “powerful, transparent and independent” commission and said it would have the “independence, resources and powers” of a standing royal commission. The review says it limited its analysis to the bill as introduced, the version Dreyfus was discussing when he claimed it honoured the commitment in form and substance.

dpaPolitics & government

Dit decreet komt van Bolsonaro.

Publisher’s rating: Het gedeelde decreet is nep. Het is nergens te vinden in de publiekelijk toegankelijke database met wet- en regelgeving van Brazilië. Ook kloppen er een aantal details niet in het document.

FACTLYPolitics & government

Image showing PM Modi and Yogi Adityanath’s photos in a hoarding placed on a liquor shop in Uttar Pradesh

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

FACTLY examined a photo circulated as showing a liquor shop in Uttar Pradesh with a hoarding bearing Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s photos. Its investigation identified the shop as Pan Mandir, a pan shop in Moradabad, and concluded that the image was misrepresented as showing a liquor shop. To identify the premises, the review says it observed the Hindi words “पान मंदिर” on the hoarding and searched online for details of the shop. It found similar visuals in a News 18 article, which identified the location as Pan Mandir in Moradabad. The review also describes the article’s video as showing the shop’s interior and exterior, with cigarette packets, beverages and pan-making products inside, but no liquor bottles in the interior shown. The review further reports that the shop’s owner, Vijay Kumar Gupta, put up the photos because he was pleased with the work of Modi and Adityanath. It cites earlier ABP reporting about the same shop and says it found no report that the shop sold liquor. Together, the shop identification and the described video evidence support the conclusion that the image shows a pan shop, not the claimed liquor shop.

FACTLYPolitics & government

Former Prime Minister of India, Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s quote which shows he is against privatization of the government assets

Publisher’s rating: MISLEADING

The claim concerns a quote attributed to former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, shared alongside a newspaper clipping about Indian railway privatization. The quote says that selling a country’s heritage reflects government inefficiency and that such governments should be removed. The review says its internet search using relevant keywords found no credible source confirming that Vajpayee made the statement. The review also examined what the clipping referred to. It reports that in July 2020 the Indian Railways invited private participation in operating passenger trains on 109 pairs of routes. The terms described in the review required private entities to procure, finance, operate and maintain trains, pay haulage and energy charges, and share gross revenue; the review says the tender did not state that the government would sell the railways or the trains. It also reports that Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw ruled out privatizing Indian Railways in May 2022. As context for assessing the attributed quote, the review notes that the Vajpayee government made disinvestments in public-sector entities. It quotes Vajpayee describing the policy in April 2000 as a strategy to revitalize the public sector through competition, flexibility and other changes, and says he urged workers not to fear its effects. The review concludes that the viral attribution was unsupported and that the railway clipping did not establish the quoted claim about his position.