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Checked by FACTLY13 Nov 2024IndiaElections
Social media posts

“Muslim Ulema have presented a five-point demand to the Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance in order to secure Muslim votes in the 2024 Maharashtra Assembly elections, which has been accepted by Sharad Pawar and Uddhav Thackeray in Maharashtra.”

FACTLY rated this: FALSE

FACTLY says: The viral video is edited. The scrolling in the video suggests it was published by Aaj Tak in February 2020, but it covered news about Kejriwal winning the Delhi elections. We couldn’t find any reports confirming that t…

Social media posts

“Weird how +20 million Democrats just disappeared in a single election from 2020 to 2024 ... Joe Biden got 81 million votes Kamala got 60? Very Sus.”

FactCheck.org rated this: Distorts the Facts

FactCheck.org says: Ballots were still being counted in the days following the 2024 election, but a claim that there was a suspicious gap of 20 million votes as compared with the 2020 election has been circulating on social media.

Checked by FACTLY11 Nov 2024IndiaElections
Social media posts

“Image shows Donald Trump’s tweet calling Rahul Gandhi a “Soros agent” in response to Gandhi’s congratulatory post on his win in the U.S. presidential elections.”

FACTLY rated this: FALSE

FACTLY says: This viral tweet was not posted by Donald Trump. The response came from the account “@thedonaldtrumph,” which is a parody account that uses a misspelled version of Trump’s name. We found that this account is a “Fan Acco…