Politics and government
4,511 claims on this topic checked by other fact-checking organisations. Topics are sorted by the words in each claim and cover English-language checks.
“The Department of Justice indictment of former President Trump is "one of the most outrageous and vicious legal theories ever put forward in an American court of law.”
FactCheck.org says: Numerous other individuals who weren’t alleged to be spies have been convicted of violating the same section of that federal law concerning the willful retention of national defense information.
“President Joe Biden "literally just admitted ON CAMERA that he sold state secrets.”
FactCheck.org says: President Joe Biden joked about investigations into him and his family. “I sold a lot of state secrets and a lot of very important things,” he joked, and added, “Now, all kidding aside.”
“In Hulinahalli, Karnataka, a woman’s arm was cut off while she was climbing the bus from the window. The price of free bus travel is your arm #Karnataka #FreeBusRide #Congress”
“Prime Minister Narendra Modi was photographed next to Rihanna”
“Neophyte Sen. Robinhood Padilla said on June 16 that “the ‘new’ Senate is not taking its job lightly” and “not in the business of comedy” amid the serious problems facing the country, refuting former senator Franklin Drilon’s statement about the lack of proper decorum which could inadvertently erode the chambers’ credibility and prestige.”
Vera Files says: Video recordings of committee hearings in the Senate show Padilla and other senators engaging in unparliamentary behavior such as bantering and berating resource persons with expletives and other obscene words and threa…
“This is called a real royal invitation for a respected Diplomat…. After Winston Churchill, Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India is the only Second World leader who is given this honour for second time..”
“Photos show recent protests against Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the U.S.”
“Russian President Vladimir Putin introduced a new legislation that imposes the death penalty on individuals convicted of burning the Quran”
FACTLY says: The Russian government did not introduce any such new legislation announcing the death sentence as a punishment for the individuals convicted of burning the Quran. A moratorium on the death penalty as a form of punishme…
“The Wall Street Journal reported that President Joe Biden knew June 18 that the Titan submersible had imploded, but he withheld the news until June 22.”
PolitiFact says: A June 22 Wall Street Journal article about the U.S. Navy hearing on June 18 what it believed was the implosion of the Titan submersible did not mention President Joe Biden.
“Video of people hitting Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s effigy was filmed in the U.S.”
“Jalore-Sirohi BJP MP ‘Devji Patel ji…”
“Recent haze in New York City was caused by “Bill Gates’ sun-dimming technology.”
“The Guantanamo Bay detention camp remaining open is proof that Joe Biden is not the president.”
“The U.S. Department of Agriculture requires anyone with a garden to “register that with the government.”
“A Congress MLA calls Pakistan Zindabad in Rahul Gandhi’s Yatra related event in Talhi, Madhya Pradesh. Cops stop it. see the rude behaviour of the congress MLA and the crowd with police…”
“A Congress MLA misbehaved with the police when he was stopped by the police while chanting ‘Pakistan Zindabad’ slogans as part of a Rahul Gandhi’s program in Madhya Pradesh”
FACTLY says: This incident took place in Shaheen Bhag, Delhi, in November 2022 and not in Madhya Pradesh during a program of Rahul Gandhi. The police arrested former Congress MLA Asif Mohammad Khan for misbehaving with police office…