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Politics & government fact checks

Explore claims publishers have checked about politics & government. Read their original ratings and follow the evidence.

12,733 published reviews in this topic

Fact Crescendo Sri LankaPolitics & government

ඉන්දීය විදේශ කටයුතු අමාත්‍ය ජායිශංකර් හමුවේදී ලංකාවේ ජනාධිපතිවරයාට අගෞරවයක් සිදුවුණාද ?

Publisher’s rating: Misleading

The review concludes that the meeting did not show disrespect toward Sri Lanka’s president. It says an international-relations expert described displaying both countries’ flags during a foreign minister’s meeting with a visiting head of state as a common practice, and the Indian High Commission likewise said the arrangement was normal and not an insult.

PA MediaPolitics & government

During this week’s Prime Minister’s Questions debate, Kemi Badenoch stated that the Conservative Party “protected the triple lock during all our time in Government”. Shortly afterwards, Labour MP Mark Ferguson wrote on X, formerly Twitter: “Wrong. In 2021 the Tories didn’t uprate pensions in line with earnings. That cost pensioners.”

Publisher’s rating: In 2021, the Conservative government announced that the triple lock pension guarantee was being suspended for one year due to the after-effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. Although the state pension still rose, the increase was lower than the rise that would otherwise have been implemented. This temporary change passed the House of Commons with little opposition, and was not objected to by the older people’s charity Age UK.

PesaCheckPolitics & government

Ce post TikTok prétendant annoncer la démission du Président Emmanuel Macron de son poste de Président de la République française

Publisher’s rating: False

Related reporting describes a TikTok post captioned “Macron démissionne” that claimed Macron would become an adviser to Alassane Ouattara if he resigned. The report says the video was manipulated and identifies its source footage as Macron after a meeting of Ukraine’s allies in Paris in September 2025.

FACTLYPolitics & government

An audio clip discussing Indian democracy is the original voice of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar at the Second Round Table Conference in Britain in 1931.

Publisher’s rating: MISLEADING

The review says the viral audio is from the film *Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar*, with Mammootty portraying Ambedkar, rather than an original recording of Ambedkar. It also reports that the speech text is associated with a speech delivered at the First Round Table Conference on 20 November 1930, not the claimed 1931 conference.