Politics and government
4,522 claims on this topic checked by other fact-checking organisations. Topics are sorted by the words in each claim and cover English-language checks.
“It’s paid for," referring to the bipartisan Senate infrastructure bill.”
FactCheck.org says: A budget watchdog group says the bill only pays for about half of the $548 billion in new spending, mainly because it counts savings that have already occurred.
“ABS-CBN is cheating the government by the billions of pesos in taxes.”
Vera Files says: Officials from the Bureau of Internal Revenue have cleared the media network of tax deficiencies during congressional hearings on the ABS-CBN franchise bill in early 2020.
“President Rodrigo Duterte said ABS-CBN still owes the government billions in taxes”
“The order on freedom of information opens up the records, transactions, decisions and issuances of all government agencies.”
Vera Files says: Despite President Duterte’s issuance of Executive Order No. 2 on July 23, 2016, a range of documents and information pertaining to controversial topics remain inaccessible to the public. These include Duterte’s state of…
“Bongbong Marcos said "The martial law is the sovereign power provided in the constitution to protect the interest of the nation.”
“President Rodrigo Duterte is changing the name of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA)”
“US President Joe Biden recently issued orders to send unvaccinated Americans to quarantine camps”
FACTLY says: The article shared in the post was published by a financial satire website ‘The Stone Market’. On 29 July 2021, Joe Biden announced strict vaccination rules for federal employees working in the United States. The Joe Bi…
“A Facebook post claiming to show energy Cabinet Secretary Charles Keter launching grandmothers”
“EACC press release about the embezzlement of funds at Meru County government”
“Claim: Altered picture shared on ex minister MR Vijayabaskar”
“Claim: Annamalai not commented on Modi government”
“Photo shows President Joe Biden's motorcade being met by swarm of Trump supporters during Biden's July 28, 2021, trip to Pennsylvania.”
“Says CNN reported that Joe Biden authorized “a U.S. intervention in Haiti after the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse.”
“Says Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was going to “expose Clinton Foundation fraud” before he was assassinated.”
“This screenshot of Governor Barchok is from NTV Kenya”
“Claim: Kamaraj not debated in parliament regarding cow protection in 1966”
“Congress leader and Godman Acharya Pramod Krishnam’s original name is Gul Shamad Khan”
FACTLY says: Election affidavit of 2019 Lok Sabha general elections states his name as Acharya Pramod Krishnam and his father’s name as Late Jaswanth Singh. Wikidata information about Congress leader Acharya Pramod Krishnam stating …
“Thanks to the insane tax-and-spending spree of President Joe Biden and Democrats in Washington, we are seeing six straight months of raging inflation.”
PolitiFact says: Most of the government spending came before Biden took office. And not only have there not been tax hikes, if there had been, that would tend to reduce inflation pressures.