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Fact Crescendo Sri LankaElections & voting

සජිත් ප්‍රේමදාසගේ නාමයෝජනා භාර ගැනීම සිදුවුයේ කෙසේ ද?(Video)

Publisher’s rating: Insight

The review says Premadasa handed his documents to officials from behind the seated election commission members, but later returned to the front and completed the formal nomination process there after Ranil Wickremesinghe’s process ended. The livestream showed Premadasa’s nomination accepted at 09:50.

日本ファクトチェックセンター

撃たれた後に笑顔を見せる安倍元首相

Publisher’s rating: 誤り

The review found that the circulating image was altered from a photograph of Abe after he was shot in Nara, and that he was not smiling in the original. It identified the original photograph as one taken by Satoshi Kubo of The Mainichi.

dpa-factcheckingPolitics & government

Foto zeigt muslimischen/pro-palästinensischen Demonstranten in England im Zusammenhang mit den rechten Ausschreitungen.

Publisher’s rating: Das Foto stammt nicht aus England, sondern wurde 2023 in Kanada aufgenommen. Ein falsches deutschsprachiges Posting geht auf einen Journalisten zurück, der den Fehler noch am selben Tag eingeräumt hat.

The photo was taken in Calgary, Canada, in 2023, not in England during the 2024 unrest. The review says journalist Jan Fleischhauer shared the image with a misleading connection to the unrest and acknowledged his error the same day.

FACTLYEducation

Video depicting a Muslim teacher in Gujarat hitting children

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The video shows a real assault on children, but the incident occurred at an orphanage in Egypt, not in Gujarat. The review identifies the man as the orphanage’s head and says he was sentenced to prison for assaulting children in his care.

日本ファクトチェックセンターDisasters & emergencies

災害時に男性は女性を助けてはいけない

Publisher’s rating: 誤り

A viral post argued that men should not help women during disasters, citing claims that most theft offenders are women and that men risk false accusations. The review reports that women made up 31.9% of people arrested for theft in 2022, and says no evidence was found to substantiate claims that men commonly face false accusations in these situations.

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