“Video shows IPS officer Ashish Tiwari of the UP Police assaulting a woman”
FACTLY rated this: FALSE
FACTLY says: The video actually shows a suspended Punjab police AIG, Ashish Kapoor, slapping a woman in Zirakpur police station, Punjab.
Crime and security
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“The International Criminal Court is the investigative body of the United Nations.”
Vera Files rated this: False
Vera Files says: The ICC is independent from the UN and does not serve as its investigative body. The Court was established by the Rome Statute in 1998 to look into and try individuals charged with war crimes, genocide, crimes against h…
“What would you call this scam? BJP won 30 seats with a margin of less than 500. Won more than 100 seats by a margin of less than 1000”
Youturn rated this: false
“The Supreme Court has ordered the imprisonment of disbarred lawyer Larry Gadon.”
Vera Files rated this: Misleading
Vera Files says: While the SC recently found Gadon guilty of gross misconduct, he was not sentenced to imprisonment.
“New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan's "daughter was paid $4M by Adam Schiff" and "his wife works with Letitia James.”
FactCheck.org rated this: Spins the Facts
FactCheck.org says: Contrary to a viral meme, the wife of the judge who handled former President Donald Trump’s N.Y. criminal case works for a Republican D.A., not the Democratic A.G., and his daughter wasn’t personally paid by Adam Schiff.
“I'm supposed to go to jail for 187 years," for the 34-count felony conviction in New York state.”
FactCheck.org rated this: False
FactCheck.org says: Under New York law, 20 years is the maximum prison time that Trump could get. Some experts say any prison time is unlikely.
“Under the Manhattan hush money case, I'm "supposed to go to jail for 187 years”
PolitiFact rated this: Grossly exaggerated
PolitiFact says: If Trump gets any prison time at all, he would likely be sentenced to serve the sentences for each count concurrently. That would be four years, at the very most.
“[E]very single legal scholar and expert said this is no case,” referring to the "hush money" case against former President Donald Trump in New York criminal court.”
FactCheck.org rated this: Distorts the Facts
FactCheck.org says: There were some law experts who said the hush money case against Trump was “strong.”
“The Indian police are experts in dealing with Muslims because they know that mosques are the source of terrorism.”
Youturn rated this: false
“Judge Juan Merchan told New York jurors the verdict in Donald Trump’s trial does not need to be unanimous.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: The judge told jurors that to find Trump guilty, they must agree unanimously on two things: that Trump falsified business records and that he did so intending to commit a separate crime.
“The Supreme Court issued an arrest warrant against President Ferdinand Marcos.”
Vera Files rated this: False
Vera Files says: The President is immune from suit, according to a 2019 Supreme Court En Banc decision.
“Those who do business in the name of religion, and under the pretext of giving darshan to the Hindu lioness. This is a hypocrite baba who rapes Hindu girls. Police should apply oil and calculate the mustard oil for years. This is what should happen to them, they rape children of 5-5 years of age on the pretext of giving darshan”
Youturn rated this: false
“Violent crime is near a record 50-year low.”
PolitiFact rated this: True
PolitiFact says: The FBI’s violent crime rate for 2022, the last year officially available, was 370 violent crimes per 100,000 population. Since 1972, only two years have had a lower violent crime rate: 2014 and 2019.
“A person seen in this video got arrested for injecting water melons with chemicals”
Logically Facts rated this: False
“The judiciary asked Vedant Agarwal to write an essay after the Pune Porsche accident. This is the rap he wrote. Police are confirming whether it is his video. But the arrogance is just sick! Whoever made this.”
Youturn rated this: false
“Recently, a petition regarding the pensions of politicians has been filed in the Supreme Court.”
FACTLY rated this: FALSE
FACTLY says: The Supreme Court had previously dismissed a PIL on the same issue, affirming the legality of salaries, pensions, and other perks of MPs. In 2022, the Madhya Pradesh High Court also dismissed a PIL filed on the same iss…
“Manila has highest crime index in Southeast Asia”
FactRakers rated this: Needs context
FactRakers says: Numbeo, a crowdsourced online database, ranked Manila as having the "highest" crime index in Southeast Asia based solely on subjective survey responses about how safe their users feel
“Video shows Dubai’s flying police cars.”
Vera Files rated this: Fake
Vera Files says: This is a video advertisement for a Peru-based insurance company that used computer-generated imagery.
“This video shows police attacking pro-Palestine student protestors at American Universities”
Fact Crescendo rated this: False
“The Department of Justice is preparing a briefer on the legal options that President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. could take in the event the International Criminal Court issues warrants of arrest for those identified in its probe of the drug-related killings during the Duterte administration.”
Vera Files rated this: Needs context
Vera Files says: The DOJ briefer is intended to provide the president legal measures he could take and does not signify a change in the administration’s policy of not cooperating with the ICC.