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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

NewtralPolitics & government

Las primeras alcaldesas de grandes ciudades fueron del PP, como en Valencia

Publisher’s rating: Falso

The claim combines Valencia with several other cities. The review says it is correct for the Andalusian cities and Cartagena mentioned, but not for Valencia. It identifies Clementina Ródenas, of the PSOE, as Valencia’s first woman mayor, serving from 1988 to 1991. The account explains that Ródenas took office after her predecessor, Ricard Pérez, resigned—not immediately after an election. It adds that she was elected by the city council in plenary session and won the 1991 municipal elections, but a PP–Unión Valenciana alliance ultimately placed Rita Barberá in the mayor’s office. The review lists the sources it used for its account: the Region of Murcia’s website, the PSOE de Valencia website and Ródenas’s public curriculum vitae. Thus, the Valencia example does not support the claim that the first woman mayor there was from the PP, even though the review says the claim holds for the other cited cities.

FACTLYPolitics & government

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan was beaten by Pakistan nationals

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The post at issue was shared by a Facebook page called Digital Congress and titled “PM Imran Khan was beaten by Pakistani nationals.” The review checked whether the footage showed Khan being attacked, and instead identified it as footage of an injury at an election rally in 2013. It reports that Khan fell from a stage and was injured, rather than being beaten by a crowd. Evidence of the fall provides a different explanation for the visuals and directly contradicts the post’s account of what happened.

NewtralPolitics & government

La foto de Nicolás Maduro en el ‘Gay Pride’ de Nueva York

Publisher’s rating: Falso

The claim concerns a black-and-white photograph said to show Nicolás Maduro holding hands with another man at New York’s Gay Pride in 1984. Newtral reports that the image is a montage, not a photograph of Maduro at that event. The review describes the viral image as showing two shirtless men holding hands and says that the image has circulated since at least 2013. To check the image’s provenance, Newtral says a reverse-image search led to the website of French photographer Jean-Pierre Laffont. The photograph’s description there dates the original scene to June 27, 1971, during New York City’s Second Annual Gay Pride Week. Newtral reports that Maduro’s face was digitally added to that image; thus the photograph’s original subject and date do not match the claim that it shows Maduro at the 1984 event. The review also notes that Maduro was born in 1962, which would make him nine years old in 1971. This is consistent with the review’s identification of the image as a manipulated version of a 1971 photograph, rather than evidence of Maduro attending Pride in 1984.