“Subramanian Swamy revealed that Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh illegally sold 2 tonnes of Thorium to China during their regime.”
What FACTLY found
A news report on illegal mining and export of monazite, a sand mineral containing a rich quantity of Thorium, by a private company in the southern state of Tamil Nadu was first reported by the ‘Daily Pioneer’ website during the UPA regime. In 2012, the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) issued a press release stating that these allegations as baseless and completely untrue. The then Janata Party President Subramanian Swamy countered a few statements made by DAE in the press release about remov...
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 3 March 2023. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 3 March 2023. Its rating was “MISLEADING”.
Where the claim appeared
- Facebook posthttps://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=2451203525045110&set=gm.1533872390436035&idorvanity=…
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This check was done by FACTLY, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.