“BJP MLA Sudhir Gadgil’s car was caught with Rs. 20,000 crore of new currency.”
FACTLY rated this: FALSE
Economy and jobs
1,152 claims on this topic checked by other fact-checking organisations. Topics are sorted by the words in each claim and cover English-language checks.
“South African prisoners get a monthly salary and bonus when done serving time”
Africa Check rated this: False
“World Bank setting up a ‘Central Bank of Biafra’”
Africa Check rated this: False
“Industry Super Australia chairman Greg Combet claims Australia’s superannuation pool is growing faster than GDP and the ASX.”
AAP FactCheck rated this: True - The checkable claims are all true.
“Unga Millers Increases maize floor prices by Sh19 in a week”
PesaCheck rated this: TRUE
“Treasurer Josh Frydenberg claims Australia’s economy is growing faster than any country in the G7, bar the US.”
AAP FactCheck rated this: True - The checkable claims are all true.
“Did PM Modi promise that Rs 15 Lakh will be credited in the bank accounts of all Indians?”
The Quint rated this: FALSE
“From 2007-2010, more than half of Biliran residents were raised from extreme poverty”
Tsek.ph rated this: False
“Prices of cardiac stents and knee implants reduced by 50 to 70%”
FACTLY rated this: TRUE
“Claim: Modis make up artist being paid Rs 15 Lakh as salary”
Fact Crescendo rated this: Fact Crescendo Rating: False
“India’s GDP in current prices increased by 31% between 2013 and 2017 while the global GDP increased by 4%”
FACTLY rated this: TRUE
“FEO act would also help the banks and other financial institutions to achieve higher recovery from fugitive economic offenders”
FACTLY rated this: UNVERIFIED
“Raghuram Rajan had warned Rahul Gandhi and P Chidambaram about Nirav Modi, but they forced him to remain silent and kept approving loan till May 2014”
FACTLY rated this: FALSE
“Fake 'Daily Nation' cover story linking Raila to fake currency scam”
PesaCheck rated this: False.
“Food inflation down: 9.19% (2014) to 5.44% (2015) to 6.29% (2016) 1.29% (2017) to 3% (2018).”
FACTLY rated this: TRUE
“GDP growth was 3.1 percent, "the first time in 14 years that we cracked 3," but "the press tried to make it 2.9”
The New York Times rated this: This is exaggerated.
“Ghana secures a loan to buy all grounded Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircrafts to start a natioanl carrier”
PesaCheck rated this: SATIRE
“A claim that Nigeria’s economic growth rate at 1.2%.”
DUBAWA rated this: This claim is false.
“Kenya’s Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) arresting defaulters”
Africa Check rated this: False
“It was only 10 years ago, under Labor, the unemployment rate was 5.7 per cent. Today, 3.9 per cent.”
RMIT ABC Fact Check rated this: Cherrypicking
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Perrottet's claim amounts to cherrypicking. His figures are accurate, but they do not fairly represent Labor's record on jobs. Experts told Fact Check that comparing unemployment rates for two individual months 10 ye…