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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

Boatos.orgPolitics & government

Depois de dar voz de prisão para pessoas que saírem na rua, Doria faz pichação em homenagem a China

Publisher’s rating: Falso

The claim combines two events into one misleading account: Doria’s remarks about possible arrests over isolation compliance and an image said to show him painting the Chinese Communist Party flag during the coronavirus quarantine. Boatos.org reports that the image did not show a quarantine-era act. It says the underlying photograph was taken in São Paulo on May 28, 2017, when Doria, then inaugurating the first space of the Street Art Museum project, painted a red heart on a wall. That date and setting are years before the pandemic quarantine described in the claim. The article describes how it checked the image’s provenance: a search for references to the alleged painting found none, while tracing the photograph led to the 2017 event. It also says the circulating image was a montage and a screenshot from a humor page. The investigation therefore distinguishes the real older photograph from the altered version, which changed what Doria appeared to paint and attached it to the later controversy over isolation measures. The article’s conclusion is that the image does not document Doria painting the Chinese Communist Party flag during quarantine. Its account instead identifies the source photograph as showing him painting a heart at a municipal cultural project in 2017.

YouturnPolitics & government

உங்களுக்கு தெரியுமா ? நேரு காலத்தில் உருவாக்கப்பட்ட பிரதம மந்திரி நிவாரண நிதியத்திற்கு காங்கிரஸ் கட்சி தலைவர் நிரந்தர ட்ரஸ்டி. இதனால் தான் கோவிட்-19க்கு பிஎம் கேர் உருவாக்கினார்.

Publisher’s rating: Fake

Vishvas NewsPolitics & government

woman standing with a baton in her hand in front of police with a claim that she is participating in farmers’ protest.

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim concerned a picture of a woman holding a baton in front of police, presented as showing her participating in the ongoing farmers’ protest in Delhi. Vishvas News concluded that the image was not from that protest. It reported finding the picture online years earlier, and said the person who had shared it in a 2018 tweet told the outlet he had received it on WhatsApp and that it was old, not from a recent protest. The review describes a reverse-image search using Google. It says the search found the picture on a Facebook page called Hyderabad Funny Club on September 10, 2016, without a description. The review also found a 2018 tweet that described the image as being from a farmers’ protest. The person who posted that tweet, Tiju Thankachan, told Vishvas News he had not taken the picture and could not remember its source, but said it was old and not from a recent protest. Vishvas News said it could not independently identify where the picture originated, but concluded it could confirm the image was not from the ongoing farmers’ protest. The earlier online appearance and the 2018 tweet provide chronology for the image, while the review explicitly notes that its original source remained unknown.

台灣事實查核中心Politics & government

昨天年金改革委員會第14次會議...各項年金請領年齡皆為65歲...軍人終身俸不再發放...80歲以後到死1塊錢不給...

Publisher’s rating: 錯誤

The message presents a supposed recent decision by Taiwan’s pension reform committee and claims that all pension eligibility ages would become 65, military lifetime pensions would stop, and labor pensions would end at age 80. The review identifies the meeting as the committee’s 14th meeting and says it had taken place on September 29, 2016—not the day before the message circulated. It reports that the meeting gathered opinions and produced no decisions.