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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

DoğrulaPolitics & government

İsviçre’nin Kürtçeyi resmi dil olarak kabul ettiği iddiası

Publisher’s rating: Yanlış

The claim was that Switzerland had accepted Kurdish as an official language, with some versions placing that change in the canton of Bern. The review distinguishes between a canton adding Kurdish to its public information and Switzerland changing the languages recognized as official at the federal level. It reports that Bern canton would provide official information in Kurdish, specifically the Kurmanji dialect. But it states that the Swiss Federal Constitution recognizes German, French, Italian and Romansh as official languages, and concludes that Bern’s information provision did not make Kurdish an official language of Switzerland.

Folha de S.PauloPolitics & government

Vídeo publicado no TikTok, e replicado em plataformas como o Twitter, Instagram e o Kwai, mostram o ministro Luís Roberto Barroso falando sobre esquemas de corrupção envolvendo o PT. Na peça investigada é possível ler as seguintes frases: “URGENTE Barroso muda de lado !!! Sexta 28/out/2022”, “Divulguem até domingo!!!!”. O perfil responsável pela postagem no TikTok utilizou a “#bolsonaro” na legenda da publicação.

Publisher’s rating: Falso

FACTLYPolitics & government

Dainik Bhasker graphic on UK PM Rishi Sunak praising former Indian PM Manmohan Singh

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim concerns a social-media graphic bearing Dainik Bhaskar’s logo that attributes to Rishi Sunak a statement that India needs a prime minister like Manmohan Singh to improve the economy. FACTLY examined the graphic’s wording and whether it was an authentic Dainik Bhaskar image. Its review says it could not find relevant news reports of Sunak making the quoted statement, then describes using a reverse image search to locate a Dainik Bhaskar tweet with the same image but different text. The text on the image in that tweet concerned remarks by Congress leaders P. Chidambaram and Shashi Tharoor and a response from the BJP: it read, “Chidambaram – Tharoor’s advice, PM should be a minority in India too. BJP – have you forgotten Manmohan Singh.” The tweet linked to a Dainik Bhaskar article about the political exchange. FACTLY therefore identifies the viral graphic as an edited version of the original, with its altered wording falsely assigning the praise of Manmohan Singh to Sunak. The review places the exchange in the context of Sunak’s election as UK prime minister on 25 October 2022. It says the linked Dainik Bhaskar article and a report by The Hindu concerned the resulting war of words between BJP and Congress leaders—not a statement by Sunak praising Manmohan Singh.