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Politics & government fact checks

Explore claims publishers have checked about politics & government. Read their original ratings and follow the evidence.

12,754 published reviews in this topic

FACTLYPolitics & government

ಮಾಜಿ ಪ್ರಧಾನಿ ಮನಮೋಹನ್ ಸಿಂಗ್‌ರವರು ಬಾಂಗ್ಲಾದೇಶಕ್ಕೆ ಭೇಟಿ ನೀಡಿದಾಗ ಕಾಂಗ್ರೆಸ್ ಅಧ್ಯಕ್ಷೆ ಸೋನಿಯಾ ಗಾಂಧಿಯವರು ಬಾಂಗ್ಲಾ ಪ್ರಧಾನಿ ಶೇಖ್ ಹಸೀನಾರವರ ಪಕ್ಕ ಮುಖ್ಯ ಖುರ್ಚಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಕುಳಿತಿದ್ದಾರೆ.

Publisher’s rating: MISLEADING

FACTLYPolitics & government

Image of Congress party office building in Wayanad

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim concerns a social-media image said to show a Congress party office in Wayanad, Kerala. FACTLY’s review identifies the building in the image instead as an Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) office in Iqbal Nagar, Kanhangad, in Kasaragod constituency. The review says the building’s ladder symbol and the man’s portrait point to IUML, rather than Congress, and that the image was being misidentified.

Vishvas NewsPolitics & government

शुभ रात्रि….जय कांग्रेस विजय कांग्रेस जय कांग्रेस…भड़कते रहना रात भर अंधभक्तों अपनी अंधभक्ति में इतिहास गवाह है राजाओं ने ईस्ट इंडिया कम्पनी के आगे हाथ जोड़े और वर्तमान में केंद्र सरकार अंबानी की लुगाई के आगे हाथ जोड़ते हुए

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The post combines a political caption with a photograph that appears to show Prime Minister Narendra Modi bowing to Nita Ambani. The review quotes the same caption supplied in the claim and identifies the image as the subject of its investigation. Its finding is that the woman in the image is not Nita Ambani: the image was altered to replace the woman who originally appeared in it. To investigate, Vishvas News says it contacted a Reliance spokesperson, who told the publication that the woman in the photograph was not Nita Ambani. The review then used Google reverse image search to locate the original photograph on VTV Gujarati’s website. It reports that VTV identified the woman as Deepika Mandal and the photograph as being from a 2015 event. The review also says it found information on Oneindia identifying Mandal as someone who runs an NGO. The review’s conclusion is specifically about the photograph and its attribution: it says Mandal’s image was edited and circulated with a false claim naming Nita Ambani. The supplied excerpt does not independently verify the political assertions in the caption, so its finding should not be read as an assessment of those statements.

dpaPolitics & government

Poetin zegt in speech: de VS en Europa proberen de wereldbevolking uit te dunnen.

Publisher’s rating: De beschreven uitspraken werden niet door president Poetin gedaan. Hij gaf op 11 april 2021 geen toespraak en deed deze uitspraken ook niet eerder. De hoax dat Poetin de Verenigde Staten en Europa ervan zou beschuldigen de wereldbevolking te willen uitdunnen, bestaat al sinds vorig jaar en werd al eerder ontkracht. De foute claims ontstonden door een video waarin een speech van de Russische president verkeerd werd ondertiteld.

The claim attributes to Vladimir Putin a speech on 11 April 2021 accusing the United States and Europe of plans to reduce the world’s population. The review traced the wording circulating online to an English-language image and an article on O.N.E. News published that day. It reports that the article gave no source for the text; only its title implied that the words came from a Putin speech. The review also notes that the image was shared with a partial Dutch translation. (S1)