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Deutsche Presse-AgenturPolitics & government

Robert Habeck wusste nicht, dass die Kamera lief, als er von einem "dusseligen Fehler" sprach.

Publisher’s rating: Das Video stammt aus dem Jahr 2019 und ist echt, allerdings aus dem Zusammenhang gerissen. Die Behauptung, Habeck wisse nicht, dass die Kamera laufe, ist falsch.

The claim concerns a clip in which Robert Habeck says he does not know why he makes “dusselige Fehler.” Posts presented the remarks as an off-camera, candid admission, supposedly made without his knowledge that the camera was running. The review says the clip is genuine but that this interpretation omits the interview exchange surrounding the remarks. The original footage came from a January 2019 interview with the news channel Welt, when Habeck was not yet a federal minister. The reviewer examined the full interview: Habeck’s statement follows a question from the interviewer, and he had already answered an earlier question. The excerpt shared online left out the interviewer’s question, which asked Habeck to explain his account of how Twitter’s aggressive tone had influenced him. In the full exchange, Habeck says that explanation is the best one he can think of for why he made the mistakes, and that a consequence must follow. He was referring to an earlier, controversial campaign video by the Thuringian Greens—not making an unprompted remark unaware of the recording. The review also reports that he said he would delete his Twitter and Facebook accounts in response to the criticism.

YouturnPolitics & government

ராகுல் காந்தியின் பாரத் ஜோடோ யாத்திரை தேச விரோதிகளின் கூடாரமாக மாறியுள்ளது. இந்தியக் குடியுரிமை சட்டத்திற்கு எதிராக நடந்த போராட்டத்தில் பாக்கிஸ்தான் ஜிந்தாபாத் என்று முழக்கம் எழுப்பிய அமுல்யா லியோனா நோரான்ஹோ(Amulya leona Noranho) என்ற பெண் ராகுல் காந்தியுடன் நடந்து அவரைக் கட்டி அணைத்துள்ளார். இதற்கு ஏதாவது விளக்கம் உண்டா ஜெயராம் ரமேஷ்?

Publisher’s rating: Fake

YouturnPolitics & government

Photo of Rahul Gandhi in Kerala with Amulya Leona Noronha who raised slogans of Pakistan Zindabad during the protest against the Indian Citizenship Act.

Publisher’s rating: Fake

Related reporting describes a 2022 claim that a girl pictured with Rahul Gandhi was Amulya Leona, who raised “Pakistan Zindabad” slogans during an anti-CAA protest in Bangalore in 2020. It says the identification was false: the girl in the photo was Miva Jolly, an activist associated with the Kerala Students Union, the Congress party’s student wing. This directly addresses the photo’s identification and the connection asserted in the claim; the supplied excerpts do not provide further details about how the photo was authenticated or how the identification was checked.