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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

FACTLYPolitics & government

Arvind Kejriwal left the house of the Gujarat auto-driver who invited him for dinner after he saw a portrait of PM Modi inside his home

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim concerns Kejriwal’s dinner visit to a Gujarat auto-driver’s home. It says he left after seeing a portrait of PM Modi. The review distinguishes that claim from what the circulated image can establish: it reports that the image showing Modi’s portrait was digitally altered, rather than an authentic depiction of the room. The review’s conclusion is that the claim is false because its central visual evidence—the purported portrait in the home—was added to the image. To check the image, the review says it performed a reverse image search and found media reports containing the same image. It also compared the viral version with pictures Kejriwal had posted on Twitter. According to the review, his posted image shows a different photograph in the relevant spot, and another photograph taken from a different angle also shows a different portrait. Those comparisons undermine the claim that the viral image documents a Modi portrait in the home. The review does not establish from the supplied text whether Kejriwal left early, declined sweets, or what prompted his departure. Its evidence addresses the alleged portrait and the image’s authenticity; it does not independently document the sequence of events at dinner.

FACTLYPolitics & government

Amit shah wrongly stated grams as a measuring unit for milk, instead of litres/milli-litres during a speech

Publisher’s rating: MISLEADING

The claim concerns a clip of Union Home Minister Amit Shah saying that milk availability had increased from 40 grams to 155 grams, which viewers interpreted as using the wrong unit. The review traces the clip to Shah’s remarks at the International Dairy Federation’s World Dairy Summit 2022 in Greater Noida. In the cited passage, he referred to milk available “for every person in the country,” a detail relevant to understanding what the figures describe. The review reports checking the full-length video on Shah’s official YouTube channel and consulting official and other published sources on how milk statistics are measured. It says the Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying distinguishes total milk production, measured in million tonnes, from per-capita availability, measured in grams per day. It also reports that the National Dairy Development Board and the Economic Survey of India use grams per day for per-capita availability. That distinction addresses the central issue: Shah’s figures were presented as per-person availability, not as the country’s total milk production. The review also notes that the Food and Agriculture Organization uses kilograms per year when measuring global milk consumption. Thus, the clip’s figures and unit are consistent with the per-capita measure described in the cited Indian sources; the claim that grams were necessarily an incorrect substitute for litres or millilitres leaves out that statistical context.

YouturnPolitics & government

பொருளாதாரத்தில் பின்தங்கியவர்களுக்கான இட ஒதுக்கீடு என்பது ஏதோ பிராமணர்களுக்கு மட்டும் கொடுக்கப்படுவதாகத் தவறான தகவலைப் பரப்புகிறது திமுக. தமிழ்நாட்டில் பிற்படுத்தப்பட்டோர் – 67%, பட்டியலினத்தோர் – 18%, மலைவாழ் மக்கள் – 1% போக மீதி இருக்கும் 14% மக்களுக்கானது இது பொருந்தும்.

Publisher’s rating: Misleading

YouturnPolitics & government

இந்தியாவின் முதல் பிரதமர் ஜவஹர்லால் நேரு ஆர்.எஸ்.எஸ். பயிற்சி உடையில் இருப்பது போன்ற புகைப்படங்களை ஆர்.எஸ்.எஸ் மற்றும் பாஜக-வினர் சமூக வலைத்தளங்களில் பகிர்ந்து வருகின்றனர்.

Publisher’s rating: Fake