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FACTLY rated this: MISLEADING
FACTLY says: According to the RBI report, Ruchi soya’s debt of ₹2,212 crores were technically written off, which means, the lending banks clean up the bad loans from their balance sheet. However, the loan account still stays to cont…
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Fact Crescendo Sri Lanka rated this: Misleading !!
Put Michigan First, Democratic PAC
FactCheck.org rated this: Misleading
FactCheck.org says: Dixon’s campaign website says she believes in “fully funding law enforcement” and she vows to “never reduce funding for law enforcement agencies or public safety initiatives.”
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FACTLY rated this: MISLEADING
FACTLY says: Before the introduction of GST, the taxes were not uniform across all the states. State VAT used to vary from state to state. Thus, comparing the current GST rates with that of a purported uniform pre-GST tax rates is n…
Tim Michels, Wisconsin Gov. candidate
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
Drew Ferguson, U.S. Representative, R-Ga.
PolitiFact rated this: Misunderstands global oil market
PolitiFact says: Reserve oil is sold to the highest bidder, by law. The oil market operates on a global level; lower prices are the results of changes to supply and demand on a global basis, not just in the U.S.
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FACTLY rated this: MISLEADING
FACTLY says: RBI through a notification has asked the authorised banks to setup an additional mechanism to settle international trade in rupees. However, the existing mechanism of settling trade in dollar/other currency is still in …
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FACTLY rated this: FALSE
FACTLY says: There is no evidence of Sambit Patra making this statement. The post has an edited image and it uses a famous breaking news template available on the internet
Joe Biden, president
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: The 8% figure is a lowball estimate that uses a hypothetical calculation. And Biden’s statement ignores that most of the middle-income households he’s referring to pay tax rates of between zero and 15%.
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Fact Crescendo rated this: FALSE
Jimmy Dore, -
FactCheck.org rated this: Misleading
FactCheck.org says: “Liberal world order” is a decades-old term referring to a system of global cooperation.
Cavalier Johnson, Milwaukee mayor
PolitiFact rated this: Half True
Nikki Haley, former South Carolina governor
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: Haley’s staffers quickly deleted the tweet once they realized that a series of six percentage increases can’t be simply added together to yield a total percentage increase.
Jaime Herrera Beutler, U.S. Representative
FactCheck.org rated this: False
FactCheck.org says: Experts told us the COVID-19 pandemic caused a global supply-demand imbalance that increased the price of crude oil and gasoline, prices that climbed higher after Russia invaded Ukraine in late February.
OneIndia Tamil, News Tamil 24 * 7
Youturn rated this: Fake
Ron Johnson, U.S. Senator
FactCheck.org rated this: Misleading
FactCheck.org says: That's an estimate for how much more a U.S. household, on average, would have to spend for the same basket of goods in 2022, compared with last year, due to inflation. There's no breakdown by various inflation causes.
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FACTLY rated this: FALSE
FACTLY says: The video is from ‘Sri Kanyaka Parameswari Temple’ in Nellore, Andhra Pradesh; not Tirupati Balaji temple which too is in Andhra Pradesh. In October 2021, as part of Dasara celebrations, the temple committee had decorat…
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Youturn rated this: Fake
Larry Summers, Harvard economist
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
PolitiFact says: The data Summers based this on did find the likelihood of a recession at 100% under these conditions. However, these conditions almost never occur. They’ve been seen in just a handful of quarters since 1955.
Joe Biden, president
PolitiFact rated this: Half True
PolitiFact says: On the one hand, every other major industrialized nation has seen inflation spike well above pre-inflation levels. However, the United States has seen its inflation rate spike higher than its most direct competitors.