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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

FACTLYPolitics & government

ongress President Rahul Gandhi and his party leaders Shatrughan Sinha, Navjot Singh Sidhu and West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee are in the same pic with Pakistan’s PM Imran Khan and its Army Chief Qamar Javed Bajwa

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim concerns a picture circulated as showing Rahul Gandhi, Shatrughan Sinha, Navjot Singh Sidhu and Mamata Banerjee alongside Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan and Army Chief Qamar Javed Bajwa. FACTLY’s review reports that the image was altered: the original photograph showed Khan and Bajwa together, without the Indian political leaders. To trace the image, the review says it used Google reverse image search and found the original in an ARY News article. That article described a meeting between Pakistan’s army chief and prime minister about security matters. The review identifies the article as dated April 4, 2019, and says the circulated image had been photoshopped to add the four Indian politicians. This comparison of the circulated image with the identified original directly addresses whether all the named people were in the same photograph.

NewtralPolitics & government

El tuit de Santiago Abascal que le pide a Franco que vuelva como Hannah Montana

Publisher’s rating: Falso

The claim concerns a purported tweet from Vox leader Santiago Abascal saying that the Jonas Brothers and Hannah Montana had returned and asking, “Why don’t you come back?” The review says the message was directed at Francisco Franco, whose image appeared with it. It reports that the alleged tweet was not found among posts on Abascal’s official account and that Vox’s press office described it as “totally false.” To check whether the tweet might have been deleted, the review says it followed Twitter Help Center guidance about traces that deleted tweets can leave in caches, third-party sites, apps, or search engines. It searched for the alleged tweet and found no results attributing it to Abascal, and no user interactions or reactions to it. Those checks, together with the response from Vox’s press office, support the review’s conclusion that the purported post was not genuine. The review also distinguishes the alleged political tweet from the joke format used in other posts: it found the Jonas Brothers/Hannah Montana line appearing with different images and attributed to other users. That context helps explain how the wording could be circulated without establishing that Abascal posted it.

FACTLYPolitics & government

జూనియర్ ఎన్.టీ.ఆర్: “మా తాతను వెన్నుపోటు పొడిచే చంద్రబాబు పార్టీని లాక్కుని మమ్మల్ని భయటకు గెంటేసాడు”, “చంద్రబాబును ఓడిస్తేనే మా తాత ఆత్మకు శాంతి, అందుకే నా మామను వైసీపీ లోకి వెళ్ళమన్నాను”.

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

Fact CrescendoPolitics & government

Claim: Factcheck on PM Modis assets value

Publisher’s rating: Fact Crescendo Rating: False

The review investigated a social-media post alleging that Narendra Modi’s declared assets had grown from ₹1.41 crore in 2014 to ₹7,115 crore, and implying that he might hold additional undeclared wealth. It reports that the post presented the ₹7,115-crore figure as Modi’s election-commission declaration. The review’s conclusion is that this figure was false. To assess the claim, the publisher compared the post with Modi’s election affidavits and reported asset declarations. It says the 2014 affidavit, filed when he contested from Varanasi, listed assets worth ₹1.51 crore—not ₹1.41 crore. The review also reports that his latest available declaration at the time covered assets through March 2018 and was published in September 2018, listing total assets of ₹2.28 crore. The review describes the 2018 total as including ₹1,28,50,498 in movable assets and a house in Gandhinagar valued at ₹1 crore. It says Modi declared no other property, vehicle, aircraft or ship in his name, and reported no gold purchases since becoming prime minister and no bank loan. The publisher further states that it could not find a 2019 asset declaration at the time of its check: Modi had not yet filed his Varanasi nomination, which the article said was due on April 26. Thus, the review’s evidence contradicts the claimed ₹7,115-crore declaration; the 2019 figure was not yet available in the material it examined.

YouturnPolitics & government

இவர் ராஜஸ்தான் துணை முதன்மந்திரி சச்சின் பைலட். பிரதமரின் போஸ்டரைத் தன் கைகளால் என்ன செய்கிறார்கள் எனப் பாருங்கள். இவர்கள் நாட்டிற்கு என்ன நன்மை செய்யப் போகிறார்கள்? அடிமட்டத் தொண்டன் செய்வதைத் தடுக்க வேண்டிய பொறுப்பில் இருக்கும் இவர்களே நாச வேலையில் இறங்கும் பொழுது நல்லது நடக்க வாயப்பே இல்லை! முடிந்த வரை இதைப் எல்லோருக்கும் பகிருங்கள். உங்கள் வாக்குகளை முன்னேற்றத்திற்கு அளியுங்கள்.

Publisher’s rating: Fake