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Fact CrescendoPolitics & government

Claim: H Raja teased PM Modi

Publisher’s rating: Fact Crescendo Rating: Partly False

The viral post portrayed H. Raja as mocking Narendra Modi while translating Modi’s speech beside him. The review says the clip’s date and location were not given in the post, and the post’s wording suggested that Raja had mocked Modi after he became prime minister. The review’s investigation instead found that Raja was translating Modi’s remarks, not speaking independently from the stage: “மேடையில் எச்.ராஜா பேசவில்லை. பார்க்கும்போது மோடி பேசியதற்கு மொழி பெயர்ப்பு செய்தது போலவே உள்ளது.” To identify the footage, the reviewers searched for videos of Modi campaigning in Tamil Nadu and found one that matched the Facebook clip. They report that the BJP had uploaded the longer video to YouTube on September 27, 2013; it ran for one hour and seven minutes, and the matching segment appeared at the 34-minute mark. In the full video, Modi was criticizing the Congress government then in power at the centre. The review also says the video itself displayed the date September 26, 2013. The review concludes that the clip showed a translation at a 2013 public meeting, before Modi became prime minister, and that the post had hidden the date and misrepresented the remarks as a present-day criticism by Raja. Its finding is therefore that the translation was real, but the post’s framing of the clip was false.

台灣事實查核中心Politics & government

【錯誤】網傳照片「挺韓遊行竟然手拿五星旗」？

Publisher’s rating: 錯誤

The claim attached a photo of a person holding a five-star flag to a pro-Han rally, identified in the review as the December 21, 2019 “South Rising, Kaohsiung Anniversary” march organized by Han Kuo-yu’s campaign headquarters in Kaohsiung. The review’s central finding is that the image was not taken at that event: it traced the photo to a different march in Taipei in 2017. To establish the photo’s provenance, the review used reverse image searching and found it in a Storm Media report about a Chinese Unification Promotion Party march celebrating China’s National Day. It then compared the photo’s visible street scene with Google Street View imagery, identifying the location as the intersection of Qingdao West Road and Gongyuan Road near Taipei Main Station. The review also found a statement about the party’s October 1, 2017 march on the Facebook page “Chang An-le Fans Club.” The review further reported that a Taipei City Police Zhongzheng First Precinct investigator said no march permit had been filed for an event near Taipei Main Station on December 21. Taken together, the photo’s earlier publication, its match to a Taipei location, and the account of the 2017 event contradict the caption’s attribution to the 2019 Kaohsiung rally. The image was reused from another event.

台灣事實查核中心Politics & government

網傳「這次年改還有一個對現役遗眷更惡毒的條款：軍人因公殉職死亡，配偶領取半俸規定修改，兩條缺一不可，1.須結婚10年以上 2.配偶須55歲後始可領取」，經查： 軍人因公殉職死亡，給付遺族的撫卹金是依據《軍人撫卹條例》，其中並未有配偶結婚時間、請領年齡之限制。此傳言為「錯誤」訊息。

Publisher’s rating: 錯誤

The post claimed that changes to military pensions imposed two conditions on a spouse seeking benefits when a servicemember died in the line of duty: at least 10 years of marriage and an age of 55 or older. The review says the message began circulating after the Black Hawk crash and that some versions linked the claim to the families of those killed. It distinguishes that situation from the separate rules for military personnel who die while already receiving retirement pay or an allowance. [S1] To check the claim, the Taiwan FactCheck Center interviewed Ministry of National Defense spokesperson Shih Shun-wen and legal scholar Chung Ping-cheng, and examined the relevant statutes and their amendment history. Shih said the line-of-duty death provisions in the Military Pension Act had not been amended and imposed neither a marriage-duration nor a spouse-age limit. Chung pointed to the Act’s provisions on which relatives may receive benefits and on circumstances that end eligibility; the review says neither provision includes the two restrictions in the post. [S1] The review traces the post’s age and marriage conditions to a different law: Article 37 of the Armed Forces Officers and Noncommissioned Officers Service Act. That provision concerns survivors of officers or noncommissioned officers who die while receiving retirement pay or an allowance, and sets conditions for a lifetime survivor annuity. The review therefore concludes that the post applied rules for that separate circumstance to line-of-duty deaths, which are covered under the Military Pension Act. [S1]

Deutsche Presse-AgenturPolitics & government

Der Grünen-Politikerin Claudia Roth wird unterstellt, sie hätte den Wiederaufbau Deutschlands nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg den Türken zugeschrieben. Das Zitate-Portal "Wikiquote" gibt für die falsche Aussage als Quelle die Talksendung "Münchner Runde" des Bayerischen Rundfunks von 2004 an - allerdings ohne Link.

Publisher’s rating: Diese Aussage ist nicht gefallen. Die Redaktion der "Münchner Runde" teilt mit, dass der Satz falsch ist.

The claim concerns a sentence often attributed to Green politician Claudia Roth: “The Turks rebuilt Germany after the war.” Wikiquote named the Bayerischer Rundfunk talk show “Münchner Runde” as its source, but the review notes that the entry supplied no link to an excerpt of the broadcast. The episode cited was titled “Angst vor der Türkei?” and aired on 5 October 2004; Roth did appear on the program. To check the attribution, the German Press Agency says it asked the broadcaster for a statement and evidence for the alleged wording. The “Münchner Runde” editorial team replied by email in early January 2020 that the quotation was “not correct.” According to the editors’ account, the relevant discussion concerned the possibility of rejecting EU accession talks with Turkey. Roth had referred to two and a half million people who had come to Germany and said that many, including people in Bavaria, had helped build the country after the Second World War. That reported wording refers to people contributing to the country; it does not say that they rebuilt Germany from the ruins of the war. The distinction is central: the alleged quotation changes the meaning of Roth’s reported comment. The review also notes that the episode’s subject and Roth’s presence on it do not, by themselves, substantiate the wording attributed to her.