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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

Mi Gobierno es el que tiene más número de mujeres de la OCDE

Publisher’s rating: Verdadero

Pedro Sánchez made the statement while presenting a year-end assessment of his government in 2018. Newtral’s review says his government had 64.7% women in its team and compares that share with France (52.9%), Sweden (52.2%) and Canada (51.7%). Those comparisons support the narrower claim that the Spanish government had a higher proportion of women than the listed OECD-country governments. The excerpt does not define the comparison set or give figures for every OECD member, nor does it identify a measurement date or explain how the team’s composition was calculated. It therefore supplies a direct comparison with three countries, but not enough detail in the available text to independently assess the full OECD-wide superlative. Newtral also points readers to Eurostat data for a separate statement about GDP growth; the excerpt does not say that Eurostat was the source for the government-composition figures.

NewtralPolitics & government

Me he reunido con todos los presidentes autonómicos y de las ciudades autónomas

Publisher’s rating: Verdadero

The claim concerned whether Pedro Sánchez had met all presidents of Spain’s autonomous communities and autonomous cities. Newtral’s review says his first meeting at Moncloa was with Urkullu on June 25, then reports that Sánchez had received all 17 regional presidents as well as the presidents of Ceuta and Melilla. That is the evidence the review gives for the claim. The excerpt does not describe a separate verification procedure or provide a meeting-by-meeting list, dates for the later meetings, or supporting records. Its stated basis is the reported sequence of meetings and the count of presidents received; conclusions beyond that account are not established by the supplied text.

THE QUINTPolitics & government

The image shows PM Modi disrespecting BJP leader LK Advani by not returning the latter's 'Namaste' greeting.

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim concerns a viral image that appears to show L.K. Advani greeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi with folded hands while Modi keeps his hands behind his back. The Quint says the image was circulated as evidence that Modi ignored or disrespected Advani. Its review identifies the setting as the function at which the government released a commemorative coin honouring former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. To check what happened beyond the still image, The Quint says it accessed footage of the full function from the BJP’s YouTube channel. The article directs readers to the video between 15:10 and 15:20, where it reports that Modi and Advani interact and that Modi also greets Advani with a Namaste. That footage addresses the claim’s central implication: the still image does not show the whole exchange, and the video shows a reciprocal greeting. The review therefore says the image was misleading as evidence that Modi failed to return Advani’s greeting. Its explanation is grounded in the event video, rather than an inference from the isolated photograph: according to the article, the full footage shows Modi responding to Advani’s gesture.

THE QUINTPolitics & government

UP CM Yogi Adityanath said that his job is to protect cows, not girls.

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim concerns a purported statement by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath that his job was to protect cows, not girls. The Quint’s review examines a viral image of a supposed newspaper clipping bearing that attribution. It reports that the image circulated on social media and says the purported statement was not reported by mainstream media outlets. The review traces the clipping to a satirical post published by RHumor Times after the Unnao rape incident in Uttar Pradesh. Although the website had become inaccessible, The Quint says its Facebook page still displayed the post attributing the words to Adityanath. The review also describes a Hindi and Marathi news website that repeated the story based on a “viral video and social media reports.” The account’s provenance supports the review’s conclusion that the viral clipping presented satire as a real statement: the article identifies a satire website as the source and reports that Lallantop covered that source article, including snapshots and a satire disclaimer from the website’s “About Us” section. The excerpt does not describe an independent recording or transcript of Adityanath making the quoted remark.

NewtralPolitics & government

JxC, ERC, CS y el PP se acaban de poner de acuerdo para repartirse TV3

Publisher’s rating: Verdad a medias

The claim concerned an agreement to renew the governing council of the Catalan Corporation of Audiovisual Media (CCMA), which oversees TV3 and Catalunya Ràdio. Newtral reports that Pablo Iglesias cited this alleged agreement on Julia en la Onda while criticizing political alliances on appointments compared with the failure to agree on budgets. The review does not describe a literal division of TV3 itself; it identifies the issue as renewal of the corporation’s governing body. (S1) The list of parties in Iglesias’s statement was partly wrong: according to the review, the party led by Xavier García Albiol, the PP, was not part of the CCMA pact, while the PSC, led by Miquel Iceta, was. Newtral says Podemos acknowledged the mistake as a “lapsus” and explained that Iglesias meant to emphasize that parties can reach agreements when they choose to. Thus, the statement reflected an agreement but misstated which parties participated. (S1)

FACTLYPolitics & government

Setu Bharatam project for safer roads. Making all national highways free of railway level crossings, by 2019, by building railway over bridges/under passes. Total outlay of 20, 800 crore rupees.

Publisher’s rating: PARTLY TRUE

The claim concerns Setu Bharatam, a road-safety scheme intended to remove railway level crossings on national highways by building railway overbridges or underpasses (ROBs/RUBs). It states that the work would be completed by 2019 and cites a total outlay of Rs. 20,800 crore. FACTLY checked the scheme’s status against government responses to questions in the Lok Sabha, including a response from March 2018; the review does not describe independent site inspections or other verification methods. The government response described the plan as replacing all level crossings on national highways with ROBs/RUBs. The March 2018 response said that 208 such structures, at an estimated cost of Rs. 20,800 crore, had originally been included. It also qualified that figure: because of site requirements and constraints, changes in highway responsibility, and a corridor-based construction approach, 174 ROBs/RUBs remained under the scheme at that time. Progress figures showed that implementation was incomplete: 90 ROBs had been sanctioned for Rs. 7,101.24 crore, 40 had been awarded, and 24 had been taken up for execution. Those figures support the stated original project total but show that the work was still underway, rather than establishing completion by the 2019 target. The review therefore distinguishes the initially included project scope and estimated cost from the status of construction.

YouturnPolitics & government

கழகத் தலைவர் ஸ்டாலின் நாட்டிலேயே மிக உயரமாக அண்ணா அறிவாலயத்தில் புதிதாக அமைக்கப்பட்ட 114 அடி உயர கொடி கம்பத்தில் கழக இரு வண்ணக் கொடியை ஏற்றினார் – திமுக ட்விட்டர் பக்கம்.

Publisher’s rating: Fake