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يوب يوبWar & conflict

تداولت حسابات وصفحات على منصة إكس، خلال يومي 22 و23 أبريل الجاري، مقطع فيديو ادعت أنه يوثق ما وصفته بـ"استعادة صنعاء لمنظومة الدفاع الجوي.

Publisher’s rating: مضلل

The review says the video circulated on April 22 and 23, 2025, after the Houthis announced they had downed a U.S. MQ-9 over Sana’a. It reports that the video was old: a version appeared on an Iranian site on April 28, 2018, and Houthi military media reposted it in early October 2018 as footage of air defenses.

日本ファクトチェックセンター

日本は車の安全試験でボンネットにボウリング球を落とす

Publisher’s rating: 誤り

The Japan Fact-Check Center reports that Japan’s vehicle safety standards do not include dropping a bowling ball onto a car bonnet. It says the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism confirmed that no such test is part of the safety-standard review.

Fact CrescendoPolitics & government

“எடப்பாடி பழனிசாமி அளித்த விருந்தில் எம்.எல்.ஏ-க்கள் நடனம்” என்று பரவும் வீடியோ உண்மையா?

Publisher’s rating: ஃபேக்ட் கிரஸண்டோ ரேட்டிங்: FALSE

The review says the video was not filmed at Palaniswami’s 23 April 2025 dinner; it had circulated years earlier and was identified as footage of BJP functionary Jayaseelan Rajarathinam, not an MLA. It cites Malayalam media reports from 13 February 2017 that had published the video.

DW

"Papst Franziskus hat sich hinter die Kampagne des Weltwirtschaftsforums gestellt, Menschen mit Autismus, Alkoholismus und anderen leichten Krankheiten und Behinderungen zu euthanasieren, um der Menschheit im Kampf gegen den so genannten 'Klimawandel' zu helfen", schreibt ein X-User.

Publisher’s rating: DW-Faktencheck: Falsch. Die katholische Kirche und Papst Franziskus haben sich mehrfach klar gegen Euthanasie geäußert und betont, dass Menschen mit Behinderungen ein Recht auf Leben und Teilhabe haben.

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