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Overheid rekruteert 16- en 17-jarigen, terug naar de jaren '30, aanwijzing voor totalitair regime, DDR, mysteryshopper andere benaming voor burger die in geheim informatie verstrekt aan instanties, enzovoort, enzovoort.
Publisher’s rating: De berichten zijn behoorlijk overtrokken. Het gaat hier om een vacature voor het controleren op de naleving van de leeftijdsgrens voor de verkoop van alcohol en tabak, waar minderjarige mysteryshoppers doorgaans voor ingezet worden. Dat is niet iets van deze tijd, maar bestaat al veel langer.
Video of PM Modi’s motorcade being attacked by farmers in the United States
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
The claim concerns a video said to show farmers attacking Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s motorcade during his recent United States visit. FACTLY reports that it traced the footage to protesters attacking police vehicles in Melbourne, Australia—not to an attack on Modi’s motorcade in the US. The review says the Melbourne protests were linked to COVID-19 lockdown measures and the closure of construction sites.
‘ఐక్యరాజ్య సమితి భద్రతా మండలిలో శాశ్వత సభ్యత్వానికి భారత్కు మద్దతు ఇస్తాం’- చైనా
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
Claim: Seeman not said that H Raja is like his father
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
Claim: misinformation shared that kanimozhi inaugurated a bus stop at Tuticorin for rs 1.54 crore
Publisher’s rating: PARTLY FALSE
The claim arose from social-media posts about a newly opened bus shelter in Thoothukudi. The review says the posts pointed to a plaque reading “estimated cost Rs. 154 lakh” and portrayed that sum as the price of one shelter. Kanimozhi and Tamil Nadu minister Geetha Jeevan did open a new shelter together, so the post referred to a real inauguration; the disputed part was how the plaque’s amount was interpreted. The review reports that the plaque said “நவீன பேருந்து நிழற்குடை அமைத்தல் மதிப்பீடு ரூ.154 லட்சம்” (“construction of modern bus shelters, estimated at Rs. 154 lakh”). It says the shelters were installed at eight locations under the Smart City scheme, at a total estimated cost of about ₹1.54 crore. Thus, the amount covered eight shelters, not just the one Kanimozhi and Geetha Jeevan inaugurated. As support, the review cites a post by Geetha Jeevan describing the newly built passenger shelter in Thoothukudi’s Millerpuram area as part of the Smart City scheme, as well as a Thoothukudi Corporation Facebook post. The review concludes that the social-media claim misrepresented the total project estimate as the cost of a single shelter.
“What I know I will do is block legislation like he said he would sign, where a child is kept comfortable after the child is born when a decision is made whether that child lives or dies. He called that legislation common-sense legislation and said he would sign it.”
Publisher’s rating: False
We are calling off the DMK alliance with a heavy heart – VCK Head Thirumavalavan
Publisher’s rating: Fake
Sen. Richard Gordon apologized to President Rodrigo Duterte
Publisher’s rating: Misleading
ஆங்கில பொழிபெயர்ப்பு: முதலில் மோடியை நீக்கவேண்டும் பிறகு யோகியை நீக்கவேண்டும் பிறகு கட்டாரை நீக்கவேண்டும், இப்போது அவர்கள் SDM ஐ நீக்குவோம், மூக்கை வெட்டாமல் காப்பாற்றுங்கள் என்று சொல்கிறார்கள். அதே ஸ்கிரீன்ஷாட்டில், ஒரு பயனரின் கருத்துரையும் காணலாம், ‘जय भारत। गोगोई जी।’.
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
নরেন্দ্র মোদীর আমেরিকা সফরে হোয়াইট হাউসের সামনে বিক্ষোভ জানালো মার্কিন নিবাসী ভারতীয়রা
Publisher’s rating: MISSING CONTEXT
The claim attached a protest image to Narendra Modi’s 2021 U.S. visit, saying Indian residents in the United States demonstrated outside the White House. The post described a banner showing Modi alongside Hitler and accused the Indian government of abuses including its agricultural laws and treatment of minorities. The review’s investigation focused on whether the image being circulated was recent or had been taken during an earlier protest. Factcrescendo reports using a Google reverse-image search and finding the same image in posts from September 2019: one on a Facebook profile called “EVM हटाओ- देश बचाओ” and another on Shilpa Bodkhe’s Twitter account. It also says the image appeared in a September 2019 blog post about protests connected with “Howdy Modi.” These earlier appearances place the image in 2019, not during Modi’s 2021 visit. The review further connects the image to protests outside the “Howdy Modi” event at NRG Stadium in Houston on September 22, 2019. It reports finding videos and news coverage of those protests and says a video on The Wire’s YouTube channel showed a poster similar to the one in the claim. Thus, the review’s evidence supports that the image was reused from an earlier protest, rather than showing a protest at the White House during the 2021 visit. The supplied excerpt does not establish that the 2019 image itself was taken outside the White House.
Foto de Gabriel Boric en manifestaciones durante el Estallido Social
Publisher’s rating: Falso