“The 2020 election “was stolen from Donald J. Trump.”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
PolitiFact says: There is no evidence of fraud or miscounts on any scale that would have had any impact on the outcome of the 2020 election.
Elections
2,118 claims on this topic checked by other fact-checking organisations. Topics are sorted by the words in each claim and cover English-language checks.
“Visuals of a polling agent manipulating women voters in the 2022 UP Elections”
FACTLY rated this: FALSE
FACTLY says: The video shared in the post shows an old ‘booth capture’ incident that took place during the 2019 General Elections in Faridabad, Haryana. In May 2019, during the 2019 General Elections, a polling agent was caught mani…
“Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee”
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: Experts say there is no clear evidence that the 2017 tax law, which has no provision specifically for China, led U.S. companies to move jobs to China.
“Republican leadership has not been clear about whether they support Rep. Ramthun’s illegal and undemocratic resolution” on the 2020 election.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“Screenshot of the ‘Zee News’ exit poll predicting the Samajwadi Party’s victory in the UP Elections”
FACTLY rated this: FALSE
FACTLY says: The photo shared in the post is a morphed one. All mainstream media channels including the ‘Zee News’ will telecast UP exit polls only after 6 pm on 07 March 2021, when the last phase of the UP Elections concludes. The …
“Comelec printed extra 11M ballot”
FactRakers rated this: FALSE
FactRakers says: Poll body printed just enough. This 2019 claim was revived
“The ‘Zee News’ and the ‘India TV’ opinion polls predicting the Shiromani Akali Dal’s (SAD) victory in the Punjab Elections”
FACTLY rated this: FALSE
FACTLY says: The opinion polls images shared in the post are edited ones. Both ‘Zee News’ and ‘India TV’ opinion polls have predicted that Shiromani Akhali Dal will secure 25-32 seats in the 2022 Punjab Assembly Elections. The ‘Indi…
“Bajrang Dal workers allege that the murder of Harsha was a BJP conspiracy to win elections in UP”
FACTLY rated this: MISLEADING
FACTLY says: The people who allege that the BJP government had sacrificed the Bajrang Dal worker in Karnataka are not Bajrang Dal activists. Sanjay Garg and Rabi Kant Bharti, who allege that BJP kills Hindus as a strategy for their …
“BJP has emerged as the third largest party in the Tamil Nadu local body elections 2022”
FACTLY rated this: FALSE
FACTLY says: As per the data released by the Tamil Nadu state election commission, BJP won 308 out of the total 12838 corporators/ward members/town panchayat members, making it the fourth largest individual party in terms of win per…
“MSNBC announced Trump won 2020 election.”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
“Video of BJP distributing money in the ongoing 2022 assembly elections”
FACTLY rated this: MISLEADING
FACTLY says: The video is old and not related to the ongoing assembly elections 2022. The video claiming that BJP distributed ten thousand rupees per voter is from Huzurabad by-poll in Telangana which was held in October 2021. Video…
“Report of Samajwadi Patry’s missing election symbol in the EVMs in Farrukhabad”
FACTLY rated this: MISLEADING
FACTLY says: The video reports about an allegation by Samajwadi Party that its election symbol was missing in EVMs at booth number 38 in Vidhan Sabha 194 of Farrukhabad district. The Fatehpur police confirmed that a voter complained…
“Video of Akhilesh Yadav appealing for votes and asking anti-social elements to vote for the Samajwadi party”
FACTLY rated this: FALSE
FACTLY says: Akhilesh Yadav’s speech in Auraiya, wherein his appeal to anti-social elements to refrain from voting to Samajwadi Party is digitally edited to show as if he appealed the anti-social elements to vote for SP. Akhilesh Ya…
“The latest with the Durham report is that the Clinton campaign … actually spied on the president of the United States.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: Durham's filing leaves open the possibility that Russian meddling, not Trump, was the focus of the data collection. And it doesn't say that the data was gathered when Trump was in office.
“Video of BJP leader Jyotiraditya Scindia mistakenly asking people to vote for Congress in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections (2022)”
FACTLY rated this: MISLEADING
FACTLY says: The video is neither related to the current Assembly Elections (2022) nor Uttar Pradesh. The video shows Jyotiraditya Scindia’s slip of the tongue at a poll rally in Madhya Pradesh (in 2020). Assembly bypolls happened i…
“Angel Locsin tweeted to tell people not to vote for someone with a trace of corruption, Toni Gonzaga agreed in a reply and said "No to Leni, we're with BBM!”
Vera Files rated this: Fake
“Campaign donations went to Robredo's personal account”
FactRakers rated this: MISLEADING
FactRakers says: Comelec allows campaign donations to be deposited to candidate's personal account
“Recent pictures of PM Modi and Yogi Adityanath offering prayers at a mosque ahead of the UP Elections results on 10 March 2022”
FACTLY rated this: MISLEADING
FACTLY says: he photos shared in the post were taken in 2018 when PM Narendra Modi and Yogi Adityanath visited the Sant Kabir Das mausoleum in Maghar, Uttar Pradesh. On 28 June 2018, marking the 500th death anniversary of the poet, …
“The West Philippine Sea dispute "only became an election issue" in the May 2022 polls.”
Vera Files rated this: False
Vera Files says: The WPS issue, including the harassment that Filipino fishermen suffer, was raised in past national elections. On the third and final leg of the 2016 presidential debates, fisherman Carlo Montehermozo asked then-preside…
“Video of burka-clad women who tried to cast fake votes in favour of Samajwadi Party in the ongoing 2022 UP Assembly elections”
FACTLY rated this: FALSE
FACTLY says: The video shared in the post shows old visuals related to the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Municipal Corporation elections. This video shows the visuals of Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP) candidate Shaila Khan seizing fake Aadhar c…