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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

Fact CrescendoPolitics & government

Claim: Madhya Pradesh minister Imarti Devi belongs to BJP

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The review examines a social-media post that presented Madhya Pradesh minister Imarti Devi as a BJP member. The post paired her photograph with a Tamil film scene and text criticizing the BJP. The review says that the party-affiliation assertion was part of the post, alongside a separate controversy about comments attributed to Devi on cooking near a toilet.

Deutsche Presse-AgenturPolitics & government

Nachdem der Verfassungsschutz die Identitäre Bewegung in Deutschland als rechtsextremistisch eingestuft hat, werfen einige dem Inlandsgeheimdienst vor, er habe damit das «Grundgesetz für verfassungsfeindlich» erklärt. In einem auf mehreren Portalen veröffentlichten Beitrag behauptet etwa die frühere DDR-Bürgerrechtlerin Vera Lengsfeld, künftig sei «rechtsextrem, wer es wagt, auf die Einhaltung des Grundgesetzes zu bestehen»

Publisher’s rating: Diese Schlussfolgerung ist abwegig. Der Verfassungsschutz stuft die Identitären als verfassungsfeindlich ein, gerade weil deren Ansichten nicht mit dem Grundgesetz vereinbar sind.

Fact CrescendoPolitics & government

Claim: MK Stalin teases Tamil Nadu Minister Jayakumar

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The review investigated a Facebook post presenting a Puthiya Thalaimurai-branded news card that appeared to show M.K. Stalin mocking Minister Jayakumar. It says the post circulated as though the exchange were genuine, but the card was falsely presented as a real news item. The review places the post amid political defections to the DMK and Stalin’s appeal for committed AIADMK supporters to join his party; it does not report that the alleged taunt actually happened. To check the card, the investigators searched Puthiya Thalaimurai’s official Facebook page for coverage of the purported story. They report finding the authentic news card about the same subject there, distinguishing it from the version being shared. The review concludes that the Facebook post misrepresented the story and cautions readers against sharing unverified news, images, or videos.

Projeto ComprovaPolitics & government

O vídeo de uma mãe que carrega o filho com deficiência no colo e protesta contra a suspensão do Benefício de Prestação Continuada (BPC) que recebia está sendo utilizado de forma enganosa em redes sociais para acusar o governo Bolsonaro pelo fim do pagamento.

Publisher’s rating: Enganoso - Publicações em redes sociais agregaram informações em texto que não constam do conteúdo original para atacar o governo Bolsonaro. No vídeo, a mãe menciona equivocadamente uma “mudança na lei” que teria levado à suspensão do benefício

Fact CrescendoPolitics & government

Claim: Modi brother working as an Auto driver

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim concerned a photograph circulating on social media that purported to show Narendra Modi’s older brother driving an auto-rickshaw. The review says the accompanying post presented the driver as the prime minister’s brother and framed the story as evidence that Modi did not give his family special treatment. It also notes that the image had circulated for years and was shared on Facebook by Hindu Munnani Jaikarthick on April 16, 2019. To check the image’s provenance, the review describes searching for photographs of Modi with his siblings and then running a reverse-image search on the auto driver’s picture. It reports that the image appeared in a 2016 Fourth.in story about a driver in Adilabad, Telangana, who resembled Modi and had become locally well known. The review says another report identified the man as Sheikh Ayub and reported that he had been dismissed from a state transport department job and was driving an auto-rickshaw. The review’s decisive point is that the driver in the viral image was identified as Sheikh Ayub, not as one of Modi’s brothers. It also cites reporting about the work and circumstances of Modi’s siblings, concluding that none of them drove an auto-rickshaw. The post therefore misidentified a Modi look-alike as the prime minister’s brother; the resemblance and the photograph alone did not establish the claimed family relationship.

Deutsche Presse-AgenturPolitics & government

Auf Facebook kursiert ein vermeintliches Zitat von Angela Merkel über die Rundfunkgebühren. Deren Abschaffung - so heißt es - «wären [sic] ein Schlag in das Demokratiebewusstsein unserer Politik». Da die Aussage neben ein Foto der Bundeskanzlerin gestellt wurde, entsteht der Eindruck, es handele sich um ein Merkel-Zitat.

Publisher’s rating: Das Zitat stammt nicht von Angela Merkel.

The review examines a Facebook post that presents a statement about abolishing broadcasting fees beside a photograph of Angela Merkel, creating the impression that she said it. The disputed wording was that abolishing the fees “would be a blow to the democratic consciousness of our politics”; the post used the grammatically incorrect “wären” (“would be,” plural) rather than “wäre” (singular).

FACTLYPolitics & government

Trump was holding an official document with an image of Ambedkar and the text ‘jai bhim’ with his signature on the right.

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The Facebook post described in the review claimed that Trump was holding an official document bearing Ambedkar’s image, the words “jai bhim,” and Trump’s signature. The review identifies the document beneath the alteration as Trump’s executive order withdrawing the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership. It says the Ambedkar image and “jai bhim” text were added to that document, rather than appearing on the original. To trace the image, the review reports using Google Reverse Image Search. That search led to a Forbes article from January 2017. The review quotes the Forbes caption as describing Trump showing the signed executive order withdrawing the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership in Washington, DC. This provenance supports the review’s account that a photograph of Trump with the executive order was modified to make it appear that the document contained the Ambedkar material.

NewtralPolitics & government

Ustedes han sido la llave para darle el Gobierno de instituciones de las Islas Canarias al PSOE

Publisher’s rating: Engañoso

The claim concerns Ana Oramas’s criticism of Ciudadanos over its role in enabling PSOE-led control of institutions in the Canary Islands. Newtral reports that Oramas referred specifically to Santa Cruz de Tenerife’s city council and the Tenerife Cabildo, and that Coalición Canaria sources confirmed this interpretation to the outlet. At the city council, Ciudadanos councillors Matilde Zambudio and Juan Ramón Lazcano voted for socialist Patricia Hernández to become mayor. At the Cabildo, Ciudadanos councillors joined the PSOE in presenting a motion of no confidence, with Podemos providing external support. The review says that this motion was due to be voted on July 24, 2019, and, if passed, would remove Coalición Canaria from government there. The key qualification is that these actions were taken by Ciudadanos representatives who had defied their national leadership’s instructions. Newtral reports that the party opened expulsion proceedings against the councillors involved, and that its leadership said it had made no pact with the PSOE or Podemos at any Canary Islands institution. Thus, the claim reflects the role of local Ciudadanos councillors in the two cases, but leaves out that their actions were against the national party leadership’s position and were not a national-level party agreement.