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Politics & government fact checks

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

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Pesa CheckPolitics & government

Nairobi County functions transferred to the National Government

Publisher’s rating: PARTLY FALSE

Related reporting supports the claim that Nairobi County functions were temporarily transferred to the National Government in 2020. S2 says that, after a breakdown in service delivery within the city administration, the Uhuru Kenyatta administration established Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS) that year. It explicitly describes the arrangement as involving a temporary transfer of several county functions to the national government, including roads, sanitation and urban planning. This evidence concerns the specific 2020 Nairobi arrangement, rather than a general claim that Nairobi ceased to be a county or that all county functions were permanently transferred. The excerpt does not identify every function transferred, provide the transfer instrument, or describe its precise terms, so it supports the claim at the level of a temporary transfer of several functions, not a broader account of the arrangement. S2 also distinguishes that past arrangement from later governance discussions: it describes a separate cooperation framework pursued by the Ruto administration and Governor Johnson Sakaja. That later reporting should not be treated as evidence about the terms of the 2020 transfer.

NewtralPolitics & government

El experimento de la coalición ha caducado ya

Publisher’s rating: Falso

The review examines a Twitter post claiming that “the experiment of the coalition has expired” and calling for a crisis cabinet without the sitting ministers. It says the post was not spoken or written by former Spanish prime minister Felipe González, despite being shared more than 6,000 times. The review attributes it to an unofficial parody account that identifies itself as such, and reports that González’s office confirmed he does not have a Twitter account. The evidence therefore addresses the attribution to González, rather than whether the post’s political opinion about the coalition is valid.

台灣事實查核中心Politics & government

【錯誤】網傳日本防衛大臣河野太郎推特圖「來自台灣的五十萬口罩安定下來，為台灣的安全祈禱」？

Publisher’s rating: 錯誤

The claim concerns an image circulated as a tweet by Japan’s then-defense minister Taro Kono, supposedly posted on February 28 and saying that 500,000 masks from Taiwan had arrived and that people should pray for Taiwan’s safety. The review says it investigated whether Kono had actually posted that message, rather than whether masks had been sent. It reports that social-media users shared the image alongside claims about Taiwan’s mask policy. The source describes the supposed tweet as saying: “來自台灣的五十萬口罩安定下來，為台灣的安全祈禱”.

FACTLYPolitics & government

Prime minister Narendra Modi having feast while others starve

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim concerns a photo presented as showing Prime Minister Narendra Modi feasting while people in India went hungry. FACTLY’s investigation says the image was a composite: a photograph of Modi eating was juxtaposed with a separate image of a woman and child to create that impression. The review reports that the Modi photograph was taken at a Diwali lunch for journalists in 2008, when he was Gujarat’s chief minister—not in the setting implied by the post. To investigate the image, the review describes reverse-image searches of the photograph and of its separate portions. It says a search for the Modi image located an original photograph on Timescontent.com, which it associates with an annual Diwali lunch party for journalists in Gandhinagar on 12 November 2008. The review further says the food shown in the shared image came from a different source, and that the woman-and-child image was from Somalia. Taken together, the reported image provenance and the review’s description of the photo as photoshopped show why the post’s juxtaposition is misleading: it combines unrelated images and presents them as evidence of a single contemporary scene in India. The source concludes that the claim made by the post is false.

Moniza HafizeePolitics & government

LA ANil Upadhyay is condemning beef ban in Karnataka

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The review examines a video circulated as showing “BJP MLA Anil Upadhyay” criticizing Karnataka’s beef ban. In the clip, the speaker critiques the BJP government’s ban, names Hindu beef exporters, and challenges the RSS over its treatment of Muslims and Dalits. The investigation identifies the speaker not as Upadhyay but as Kannada actor Sathyajith, whose real name is Syed Nizammudin. To identify the man, the review says it broke the circulating video into keyframes and ran a reverse image search. That led to a video on Sathyajith’s YouTube channel. The review traces the circulating clip to a 20-minute election speech he made ahead of Karnataka’s 2018 Assembly elections. It also notes that the original video showed Congress imagery, including the party logo and images of Manmohan Singh, Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, rather than the BJP figures appearing in the circulating version. The review also checked MyNeta for Anil Upadhyay. It found three people with that name: two independents and one BSP member, with no information matching the claimed BJP MLA. Taken together, the investigation’s identification of the speaker and the original speech’s provenance do not support attributing the video to a BJP MLA named Anil Upadhyay.

Ayaan KhanPolitics & government

BJP Karnataka called Jyotiraditya Scindia a dog in its tweet

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim concerned a tweet circulated after Jyotiraditya Scindia resigned from Congress and joined the BJP on 11 March. It quoted a message calling him a “new dog” and was presented as a post by BJP Karnataka. The review says users shared it as an official party-unit tweet, making the account behind the post central to checking the claim. The review identifies the account that posted the tweet as a parody account, not the official Karnataka BJP account. It reports two clues: the account’s bio described it as a parody, and its username differed from the official account’s spelling by an extra “a.” It also notes that the parody account lacked the verified tick mark. On that evidence, the insulting post was misattributed to the state party unit.

FACTLYPolitics & government

Video of AAP’s Sanjay Singh beating his co-MLA with shoes during their party’s meeting

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim concerns a video circulated as showing AAP leader Sanjay Singh beating a fellow party MLA with shoes at an AAP meeting on 6 March 2020. FACTLY’s review identifies the people in the footage as leaders of Uttar Pradesh’s BJP, not AAP: MP Sharad Tripathi and MLA Rakesh Singh. It says the two exchanged blows after an argument at a meeting in Uttar Pradesh. The review describes how it checked the footage: a keyword search found the same video on ANI’s YouTube channel. According to that video, the incident occurred on 6 March 2019 in Sant Kabir Nagar, Uttar Pradesh. The argument was over the placement of names on a project’s foundation stone. These details locate the footage a year earlier and in a different state and party setting from the claim. The review concludes that the men in the video were BJP leaders and that the incident took place in Uttar Pradesh. The footage therefore does not depict the claimed altercation involving Sanjay Singh and an AAP colleague at an AAP meeting.

FACTLYPolitics & government

Photo of Narendra Modi bowing to Gautam Adani’s wife

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The post identified the woman to whom Narendra Modi bows in a photo as Gautam Adani’s wife. FACTLY says the image was taken during Modi’s 2014 visit to inaugurate the India Food Park in Tumkur, Karnataka, and identifies the woman as Gita (also spelled Geeta) Rudresh, then Tumkur’s mayor—not Adani’s wife. To investigate the image, FACTLY reports using a Google reverse-image search. It says a newspaper article attached to a tweet identified the woman as Geeta Rudresh, and that an account of Modi’s visit published by OneIndia Kannada recorded his arrival at the Tumkur helipad and his welcome by Mayor Gita Rudresh. Together, these details connect the woman in the photo to the Tumkur event and identify her as the mayor. The review’s conclusion is that the photo does not show Adani’s wife. Its account supports that conclusion through the image’s reported event provenance and the identification of the woman who welcomed Modi; the excerpt does not provide further details about the newspaper article or the underlying image search results.