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ശശി തരൂര് എംപി ബിജെപി ദേശീയ സെക്രട്ടറി അബ്ദുള്ളക്കുട്ടിയോടൊപ്പം ബിജെപി വേദിയില്
Publisher’s rating: MISLEADING
ಮಾಜಿ ಪ್ರಧಾನಿ ಅಟಲ್ ಬಿಹಾರಿ ವಾಜಪೇಯಿ ಅವರು ವಿಶ್ವಸಂಸ್ಥೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಕಾಶ್ಮೀರ ಸಮಸ್ಯೆಯ ಕುರಿತು ಮಾಡಿದ ಭಾಷಣ.
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
Recent picture of Bhagwant Mann and Arvind Kejriwal consuming alcohol and having a non-vegetarian meal together
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
The claim concerns a photo presented as a recent image of Arvind Kejriwal and Bhagwant Mann drinking alcohol and eating non-vegetarian food together. FACTLY reports that it traced the image through reverse image search to a similar photograph published in an India.com article on 23 November 2021. That article identified the scene as Kejriwal having dinner with Mann at an auto-rickshaw driver’s home in Ludhiana, Punjab. The comparison with that earlier photograph is central to the check: FACTLY says the original does not show alcohol-filled disposable glasses in front of the two leaders. Instead, it shows roti and curry on their plates. The review also says the driver’s family did not serve the non-vegetarian items depicted in the circulated image, so the altered details do not establish that the leaders ate the meal claimed. FACTLY adds that AAP’s official account posted pictures of Kejriwal’s visit to the family on 22 November 2021, and that news outlets reported on the visit. The review’s account links the viral image to that dinner, rather than to a recent meal involving alcohol and non-vegetarian food.
अरविंद केजरीवाल और पंजाब सीएम भगवंत मान की शराब की बोतल के साथ खाना खाते फोटो वायरल
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
Le Cameroun va poursuivre en justice l'Algérie
Publisher’s rating: Le communiqué attribué à la Fecafoot est un faux
Miyembro si Louise "Liza" Araneta-Marcos ng New York State Bar Association.
Publisher’s rating: No basis
Angkan ng mga Durano ang namumuno sa pulitika ng Danao City, Cebu, sa loob ng “halos 15 dekada.”
Publisher’s rating: Hindi totoo
George Soros en Volodymyr Zelensky zijn neven.
Publisher’s rating: De twee zijn geen familie van elkaar: er is geen greintje bewijs voor.
The review examines a social-media claim that businessman George Soros and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky are cousins. It says the post attributed the claim to a supposed source inside the U.S. Department of Defense, but reports finding no trace of that alleged source. The review therefore treats the attribution as unsupported, rather than as evidence establishing a family relationship. To assess the claimed connection, the review compares the family histories it describes. Soros was born in Budapest to a Hungarian Jewish family; the review says that family changed its name from Schwartz to Soros and that it found no indication of Ukrainian origins or ties. It describes Zelensky’s Jewish family as having suffered losses during the Second World War: his great-grandparents and three great-uncles died, while his grandfather was the only one of four brothers to survive. The review reports no indication of ties between Zelensky’s family and Hungary or the Soros family. The review also cites two additional checks: it says Zelensky stated in an interview two years earlier that he did not know Soros, and that a spokesperson for Soros’s Open Society Foundations called the claim completely false when speaking to PolitiFact fact-checkers. Taken together, the review’s account presents no support for the alleged cousin relationship and notes that the families’ shared Jewish background is the only commonality it identifies.
സിപിഎമ്മിന്റെ ദേശീയ പാര്ട്ടി പദവി നഷ്ടമായി
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
The Durano political clan has been leading Danao City, Cebu for “almost 15 decades.”
Publisher’s rating: False
Vladimir Poutine a approuvé l'abolition de l'ONU.
Publisher’s rating: C’est un tissu de mensonges. D’une part, la Russie participe toujours aux délibérations du Conseil de sécurité des Nations unies. D’autre part, elle ne s’est jamais prononcée en faveur d’une dissolution de la Cour internationale de justice.
The review examined a French-language Facebook post claiming that Vladimir Putin had approved abolishing the UN, its Security Council and International Court of Justice, among other organizations. The post also alleged that Russia would close their offices and seize their assets. The review reports that the post appeared in the Netherlands on March 29 and was accompanied by a photograph of Putin with three young women. The central claim is contradicted by Russia’s continuing role at the Security Council. The review says Russia remained an active participant and a permanent member with veto power, and notes that its permanent mission to the UN was still active. It also describes a development pointing in the opposite direction: on April 7, the UN General Assembly suspended Russia from its seat on the UN Human Rights Council over the invasion of Ukraine. These details do not support the claim that Putin had abolished, or approved abolishing, the UN. The review separately examined the allegation about the International Court of Justice (ICJ). It notes that the Court had issued an order on March 23, 2022, concerning Ukraine’s genocide allegations against Russia, and that the two countries had deadlines to submit written materials in the case. Although Russia had not said whether it would participate, the review found no statement from Moscow that it intended to abolish the ICJ. It also distinguishes the ICJ from the International Criminal Court, which had opened an investigation into the situation in Ukraine; the review quotes the latter court’s spokesperson explaining that Russia was not party to the treaty establishing it.
Claim: fake news spreading about yogi adityanath tilak
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
The claim concerned a specific video circulated with the assertion that Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath was applying the ashes of a soldier who had died in service to his forehead. The review says the post appeared on Facebook on March 23, 2022, and presented the footage as evidence of that claim. Its investigation instead identifies the ashes as those of the Holika effigy burned for Holi. To trace the video, the reviewers converted a frame to an image and searched for it in reverse. They found an earlier post of the same video by Dr. Prachi Sadhvi, dated March 22, 2022, whose translated caption described applying the ashes of the burned Holika to the forehead as a Sanatan Dharma tradition. The review also reports finding news coverage of Adityanath visiting the Gorakhnath Math temple during Holi and applying Holika ashes. It notes that the same ascetics visible beside him in that news image also appear in the examined video. For further confirmation, the review says its Hindi team contacted Gorakhpur district Additional Magistrate Vineet Kumar Singh. He said the footage was taken during Holi and described applying the ashes of the burned Holika as a Hindu tradition. Taken together, the video’s earlier Holi-related caption, the matching people in the image, and the official’s explanation support the review’s conclusion: the footage showed a Holi ritual, not Adityanath applying a soldier’s remains.
هل خالفت الحكومات السابقة القوانين الخاصة بالتوظيف في القطاع العام؟
Publisher’s rating: صحيح
The review examines a claim made in the setting of Lebanese public-sector hiring. It cites a March 29, 2022 tweet by Ibrahim Kanaan, head of Parliament’s Finance and Budget Committee, calling for governments and the judiciary to respect the laws, particularly on hiring and a comprehensive staffing survey. The review focuses on whether previous governments made appointments contrary to legal procedures, especially after the 2017 salary-scale law. The review describes the relevant rules: Article 21 of that law suspended hiring and contracting across the public sector, subject to a Council of Ministers decision based on an investigation by the Administration of Research and Guidance. It then reports figures from a joint report by the Central Inspection and the Civil Service Board: 5,473 people were hired after the law was adopted on August 21, 2017; 460 hires were said to follow proper procedures, while 5,013 were classified as contrary to procedure. The review also cites a separate Westal initiative tally limited to ministries, which counted 1,864 people brought in between August 2017 and 2019: 404 hires in compliance and 1,460 not in compliance. These figures support the review’s conclusion that previous governments made hires contrary to legal procedures; they do not establish that every appointment was unlawful. The article notes variation in the findings, including that some hires followed the rules, and gives a ministry-level example: 55 hires at the Ministry of National Defense were classified as contrary to procedure, with none classified as compliant. Its conclusion is specifically that Kanaan’s statement is correct insofar as previous governments made public-sector hires contrary to legal procedures.
Video of Arvind Kejriwal admitting that he has a share in corruption & bribes, along with Bhagwant Mann and other AAP legislators
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
The claim concerns a video presented as showing Arvind Kejriwal admitting that he, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann and other AAP legislators take a share of corrupt money. FACTLY reports that the video is doctored and that its edited presentation reverses the meaning of Kejriwal’s remarks. The review says it searched using relevant keywords and located the full India TV interview with journalist Saurav Sharma; it points to a similar exchange beginning around 6:50 in that video. [S1]
TATA authorities recently transferred the President’s daughter to internal affairs, for security reasons
Publisher’s rating: MISLEADING
The claim said TATA authorities had recently moved President Ram Nath Kovind’s daughter, Swati Kovind, from her Air India flight-attendant role to “internal affairs” for security reasons. The review found that this description conflated an earlier reassignment with a supposed recent action by TATA. It identifies Swati Kovind as Air India cabin crew who had worked on Boeing 787 and Boeing 777 flights, and says she was deputed to the airline’s integration department in 2017 for security reasons. The review also says TATA completed its purchase of Air India and took over the airline’s management and control in January 2022. On that chronology, it concludes that TATA could not have made the 2017 reassignment: it had happened before TATA took control. The review reports that it searched Google for information about the President’s daughter and found several 2017 news reports saying she had been moved to ground duties at Air India for security reasons. Its closing summary describes the move as from cabin crew to ground duties, rather than a recent transfer by TATA to “internal affairs.” Thus, the supported event is a 2017 move to ground duties, while the claim’s attribution to TATA and its implication that the move was recent do not fit the chronology given in the review.
De zonen van Joe Biden, Mitt Romney, Nancy Pelosi en John Kerry zitten in de raad van bestuur van energiebedrijven die werkzaam zijn in Oekraïne.
Publisher’s rating: De vier politici hebben onderling tien (stief)zonen. Hunter Biden was een tijd actief in de raad van bestuur van een Oekraïens gasbedrijf. Voor de overige negen is er geen bewijs dat ze, in het verleden of nu, zulke posities hebben bekleed. Paul Pelosi werkte wel enige tijd voor een Amerikaans oliebedrijf dat geen banden lijkt te hebben gehad met Oekraïne.
The post reviewed by dpa alleged that each of four politicians had a son serving on the board of an energy company with business in Ukraine. The review distinguishes the ten sons and stepsons among the families rather than treating the allegation as one established connection for each politician. It finds that Hunter Biden, Joe Biden’s son, did serve for a time on the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian gas company; it reports no evidence that the other nine held comparable positions. It separately notes that Paul Pelosi worked for a time at a U.S. oil company, but says that company did not appear to have Ukraine ties. For Mitt Romney, the review identifies five sons and describes their work in finance, real estate, medicine, consulting, technology, advertising and other fields. It says none appeared to have a connection to energy companies operating in Ukraine. For Nancy Pelosi, it examines her son Paul Jr.: a video shows him describing himself as a board member of California oil company Viscoil, but the review says there is no evidence that his 2017 visit to Ukraine was connected to a job at a Ukrainian energy company. For John Kerry, it identifies three stepsons; two served on the board of The Heinz Endowments, a Pittsburgh-area charity, while Christopher Heinz left Rosemont Seneca Partners in 2015 and was not personally involved in Hunter Biden’s Burisma work. Taken together, the review’s findings support a narrower conclusion than the post’s broad allegation: Hunter Biden is the one identified as having served at a Ukraine-linked energy company. The evidence described does not establish equivalent roles for the other nine sons and stepsons.
पंतप्रधान नरेंद्र मोदी चे एक एडिटेड चित्र व्हायरल होत आहे. सोशल मीडिया च्या विभिन्न प्लॅटफॉर्म वर व्हायरल होत असलेल्या ह्या चित्रात मोदी एका कार मध्ये बसलेले दिसतात. व्हायरल चित्रात कार च्या बाहेर एक होर्डिंग दिसते, ज्यात आम आदमी पार्टी असे लिहले आहे.
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
The claim concerns an image appearing to show Prime Minister Narendra Modi sitting in a car beside an Aam Aadmi Party billboard. The billboard includes a Gujarati slogan about wanting change in Gujarat and an image of Arvind Kejriwal, making it look as if Modi is looking toward it. Vishvas News’s investigation concluded that this was an edited image from Modi’s Gujarat visit: its account says the genuine image did not show the AAP billboard and that the original billboard instead read “KING IS COMING.” To trace the image, the review says it used Google reverse-image search and found the original photograph on News18’s Gujarati website and on a Facebook page called Swagat Group. It reports that News18’s story, published on March 12, described Modi as being on a two-day Gujarat visit, and that the Swagat Group page had uploaded the photograph on March 11. The review also says it compared the viral and genuine images and consulted senior Gujarat journalist Prashant Nema, who likewise said the viral image was edited. The evidence described addresses the specific visual alteration at issue: the original photograph has a different billboard from the one in the viral version. Thus, the AAP signage and its apparent association with Modi in the car are not supported by the original image as described in the review.
