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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

Fact CrescendoPolitics & government

द्रौपदी मुर्मू ने नागपुर में आरएसएस मुख्यालय में मोहन भागवत से मुलाकात की। इसमें कोई संदेह नहीं कि मुर्मू सिर्फ एक रबर स्टैंप होंगी और स्वतंत्र रूप से काम नहीं कर पाएंगी.

Publisher’s rating: Altered

Fact CrescendoPolitics & government

Claim: pon radhakrishnan not asked annamalai to take action against radharavi

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The review investigated a news card alleging that Pon. Radhakrishnan had urged Annamalai to take “strong action” against Radharavi. It reports that readers sent the card to the publisher for verification and that it was also being shared on social media. The review places the allegation amid controversy over remarks Radharavi made at a BJP public meeting, but treats the news card as a separate rumor to check. [S1]

Fact Crescendo Sri LankaPolitics & government

ගෝඨාභය-රනිල් ප්‍රමුඛ ආණ්ඩුව පිළිබඳ නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ සිදු කළ විවේචනය?

Publisher’s rating: Misleading

The review examined a circulating video that appeared to show Namal Rajapaksa criticizing the government led by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. In the clip, he seemed to say that the public had rejected the government’s policies and to call for Parliament to be dissolved and for the prime minister to resign. The review’s central question was whether he had made those remarks recently, as the social-media post implied. The investigation found that the footage came from a 2018 video on Rajapaksa’s official Facebook account, not a recent statement about the government then in power. The original remarks followed the local government election and criticized the government of that time, calling for Parliament to be dissolved and an election held. The review identifies the event as Rajapaksa speaking to the media on 11 February 2018, addressing then-President Maithripala Sirisena and then-Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. The review says it compared the original footage with the circulating edit and found that portions had been cut and the video edited to make the old remarks appear to concern the current government. It also reports that Rajapaksa confirmed to the publisher that the video was an old one from 2018. Thus, the video’s words were presented with a misleading date and political context; the investigation does not establish that he made those statements recently.

Fact CrescendoPolitics & government

आख़िर अमित शाह ने क्यों साधी चुप्पी ? पत्रकार ने पूछे कुछ ऐसे सवाल। पत्रकार – जब बारिश आया इधर बाढ़ आया तब मोदी सरकार तेलंगाना का कोई मदद नहीं किया अमित शाह – चुप्पी

Publisher’s rating: Missing Context

FACTLYPolitics & government

Video of Arab Sultan presenting gold chain to PM Narendra Modi as a welcome gift

Publisher’s rating: MISLEADING

The video was shared as showing an Arab Sultan welcoming Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi with a gold chain. The review identifies the footage instead as Modi receiving the UAE’s Order of Zayed in 2019, and distinguishes that award ceremony from his later visit to the UAE. It reports that the award was conferred by Crown Prince Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahya on 24 August 2019, when he placed the medal around Modi’s neck. The review describes its visual check: reverse-image searches of screenshots from the circulating video led it to a YouTube video with similar visuals, uploaded on 24 August 2019. It also compared the viral footage with photographs Modi shared after the award ceremony. The review says those images resemble the video, supporting its identification of the footage as the 2019 award event rather than a welcome-gift presentation. The review separately examined whether the alleged gift was documented during Modi’s 28 June 2022 UAE visit. It says the Ministry of External Affairs publishes information about gifts received by officials on foreign visits and that it found no such gold chain in the list it checked. It concludes that the old award video was recirculated with a misleading description; the supplied excerpt does not establish that every possible gift record or source was exhaustively checked.