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立憲・横澤氏「国会は女性議員が少ないが野党は半分が女性」?
Publisher’s rating: 不正確
The review says Yokosawa’s July 3, 2025 campaign-speech claim that opposition seats were about half women was inaccurate. It reports women made up 36.4% of opposition members in the House of Councillors and 20.4% in the House of Representatives.
The Commission on Audit's unmodified opinion clears Vice President Sara Duterte ahead of the impeachment trial.
Publisher’s rating: False
Research from related reporting says COA’s unmodified opinion did not clear Duterte of alleged fund misuse or dismiss the impeachment case. It explains that the opinion concerns whether financial statements follow the applicable reporting framework, not the agency’s overall compliance.
पप्पू यादव को राहुल और तेजस्वी के साथ वैन पर नहीं चढ़ने देने पर पप्पू यादव ने विरोध व्यक्त किया
Publisher’s rating: भ्रामक
The review found that the image shared as showing Pappu Yadav protesting after the van incident was an older photograph, not evidence of a response to that event. It traced the photo to a December 2020 protest in Patna against the farm laws.
石破首相「マイナポータルで給付の事務費大幅削減」?
Publisher’s rating: 根拠不明
The review says municipalities reported that using registered public-payment accounts alongside existing methods would not greatly reduce their workload, and that paper notices and other tasks would remain. It also reports that neither the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications nor the Digital Agency had an estimate of the potential savings; the review notes that some savings may still be possible in practice.
वीडियो में स्टेज पर चढ़ने से रोके जाने पर फूट फूट कर रोते हुए नजर आए पप्पू यादव
Publisher’s rating: भ्रामक
Amar Ujala’s review says the viral crying video does not show Pappu Yadav reacting to being stopped from climbing onto a stage. It identifies the footage as from 2018, after an attack on his convoy in Muzaffarpur, and says he cried while speaking to the media about that incident.
参政党・和田知久氏「総理大臣は天皇陛下の臣下のトップ」?
Publisher’s rating: 誤り
Sanseito candidate Tomohisa Wada said that the prime minister is the Emperor’s “top subordinate.” The review explains that under Japan’s current Constitution the Emperor is a symbol of the state and national unity, and the prime minister is not a subordinate.
Ce post Facebook prétendant montrer la visite du Dirigeant suprême de la Corée du Nord, Kim Jong Un, sur des sites nucléaires en juin 2025
Publisher’s rating: Missing Context
The Trump administration “has defunded not only the National Weather Service but also what’s known as NOAA.”
Publisher’s rating: Mostly False
(Video) Evelyn Matthei riéndose de videos de la dictadura: #Engañoso
Publisher’s rating: Engañoso
घाना में प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी के स्वागत का वीडियो
Publisher’s rating: भ्रामक
the UK’s King Charles III denouncing U.S. President Donald Trump over the recent conflict in Iran
Publisher’s rating: manipulated
Fact Hunter reports that the viral video combines a short clip of Charles with unrelated footage and audio that appears overdubbed or synthesized. It says Hive Moderation flagged the audio as 99.9 percent likely to be AI-generated and concludes that the video fabricates the statement. [S1]
参政党・神谷代表「戸籍がシンプルに」「選択的夫婦別姓で治安が悪化」?
Publisher’s rating: 不正確
The review examines Kamiya’s remarks in a June 30 party-leaders’ debate, including that optional separate surnames would make family relationships more complex and worsen public safety. It says the main elements of family-register records have not changed since 1947 and that no basis was given for the claimed effects on family relationships or public safety.
党首討論CM中に石破首相がアナウンサーを恫喝?
Publisher’s rating: 誤り
The review says the viral clip was selectively edited and did not show Ishiba threatening an announcer. In context, he was warning that the aging of the baby-boom junior generation would increase social-security burdens.
قضیه گروسی؛ مشکل مقامهای جمهوری اسلامی با مدیر کل آژانس چیست؟
Publisher’s rating: مقامهای سیاسی، نظامی و رسانههای حکومتی گروسی را به جاسوسی، دروغگویی، خیانت، و حتی زمینهسازی برای جنگ متهم و بعضا تهدید میکنند. مبنای اصلی این اتهامات، گزارش اخیر آژانس است، اما دقیقا مشخص نیست ایراد مقامهای حکومت ایران چیست و کدام بخش گزارش از نظر جمهوری اسلامی خلاف واقعیت است.
สิงคโปร์ไล่กัมพูชาออกจากอาเซียน พร้อมแบ่งดินแดนให้ไทย ลาว และเวียดนาม
Publisher’s rating: False
The review found no evidence that Cambodia had been expelled from ASEAN or that its territory had been divided among Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam. It says Cambodia remained an ASEAN member and that no ASEAN statement or member country had announced an expulsion.