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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

Vishvas NewsPolitics & government

பிரியங்கா காந்தி தனது ட்விட்டர் பதிவில், இந்தியா ஒரு முட்டாள்களின் நாடு, அங்கு அரசாங்கம் கோடிக்கணக்கான ரூபாய்களை மக்களின் குடிநீருக்காக செலவிடவில்லை, மாறாக நயவஞ்சகர்கள் மற்றும் நயவஞ்சகர்களின் அரச குளியலுக்கு செலவிடுகிறது.

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

منصة تأكدPolitics & government

تداولت وسائل إعلامية عربية وسوريّة أخباراً مرفقة بصورة لشخص ضخم له عضلات مفتولة ادعت خلالها أنه يدعى ضياء هلال الأسد وأنه هدد من يدعو لتنظيم احتجاجات في محافظة اللاذقية.

Publisher’s rating: خطأ: المحتوى الذي يتضمن معلومات خاطئة شرط أن لا تؤثر على المحتوى بالكامل.

Newsmeter NetworkPolitics & government

Woman with Delhi CM Kejriwal in viral photo is AAP supporter Nikita Jacob

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim concerned a viral photograph of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal with a woman who social media posts identified as lawyer Nikita Jacob, linked in the posts to the farmers’ protest “Toolkit” case. Newsmeter’s review says the woman in the photograph was AAP supporter Ankita Shah, not Jacob. To check the identification, the review says it compared online images of Jacob with the woman in the viral image and found they did not match. It then performed a reverse search, which led to the same photograph on Facebook and Twitter pages belonging to Shah. Those posts identified the photograph as showing Shah and dated it to 2019; one caption said she had finally met Kejriwal. The review also reports corroboration from Preeti Sharma Menon, an AAP national executive member, who said the claim was false and identified the woman as Shah. It notes that Shah retweeted media organizations’ debunks. The evidence described therefore challenges the viral post’s identification of the woman: the photograph’s appearance did not match Jacob, while its social-media provenance and the reported identification point to Shah.

Pagella PoliticaPolitics & government

«[Al Pd] Noi oggi abbiamo in tutti gli organismi, esecutivi ed elettivi, la parità di genere»

Publisher’s rating: Pinocchio andante

On 16 February, Nicola Zingaretti defended the Democratic Party (PD) on Rai 3’s Cartabianca after criticism that it had given women too little space in the Draghi government. The PD had three ministries, all assigned to men. Zingaretti argued that the criticism was misplaced because the party had gender parity “in all its bodies, executive and elected.” The review checked that broad claim against the composition of the party’s bodies and concluded that it was incorrect. The review describes the party’s structure as including its leadership, national bodies, departments and other committees. It says the national statute requires the national secretariat’s composition to respect gender parity and, more broadly, says the party “ensures, at all levels,” women’s and men’s equal presence in its guarantee and executive bodies. The review compared those rules with membership figures published on the PD’s website and reported that several bodies were not balanced. In the national secretariat, the website’s list showed 13 men and 10 women; after the PD press office said two women were missing from that list, the review recalculated the count as 13 men and 12 women, or 15 men and 12 women when Zingaretti and his deputy Andrea Orlando were included. The figures for other bodies also contradicted a claim of parity across all bodies: the national direction was more than 60 per cent men, and the national assembly about 57 per cent men. The review additionally reported male majorities in the political and institutional executive, the treasury committee and the guarantee commission; only three of 21 regional secretaries were women. It noted counterexamples—the party presidency was entirely women, and some smaller groups were close to or at parity—but those did not establish parity throughout the party. The review’s conclusion rests on the uneven composition of multiple bodies, not just the gender of the ministers appointed to the national government.

FACTLYPolitics & government

Video of German farmers tractor parade in solidarity with protesting Indian farmers; Images of recent farmers’ protest in Germany

Publisher’s rating: MISLEADING

The claim combined two assertions: that a video showed German farmers rallying in solidarity with India’s protesting farmers, and that a set of images showed recent farmers’ protests in Germany. The review found that the parade was in Berlin and concerned German government policies, not solidarity with the Indian protests. It also traced the images to German farmers’ demonstrations in 2019, rather than to recent protests. For the video, the review says a reverse-image search led to an upload dated 8 February 2021 titled “FARMERS PROTESTING BERLIN GERMANY.” It then compared the viral footage with a Ruptly news video dated 6 February 2021, reporting a tractor rally in Berlin. The review points to matching visual details in both videos—a white vehicle decorated with red lights and a “NO FARMERS NO FOOD NO FUTURE” poster—and reports that other coverage described the rally as opposition to a new German Fertiliser Ordinance. Those findings connect the footage to a Berlin policy protest, not to Indian farmers. For the images, the review reports that reverse-image searches found the same photos in articles about protests on 26 November 2019. It says those demonstrations concerned German and European agricultural policies, including proposed glyphosate restrictions, fertilizer rules, and EU agricultural payments. Thus, even though German farmers had also protested more recently, the reviewed images were older. The misleading element was the presentation of the video as solidarity with India and of the 2019 images as recent.

منصة تأكدPolitics & government

نشرت مواقع إخبارية وعدة صفحات وحسابات شخصية على موقع فيسبوك، خبراً منسوباً لصحيفة (معاريف) العبرية، تضمن ادعاءً بأن رئيس النظام في سوريا بشار الأسد تواصل مع أعضاء في اللجنة الدستورية السورية، وعرض عليهم مناصب وزارية، بعد انتخابه رئيساً للبلاد مجدداً.

Publisher’s rating: كذب