Fact Check
Friday 22 March 2024
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“The pope congratulates Vladimir Putin on his election as president of the Russian Federation. Pope Francis sees the Vatican as an international platform that could replace some of the U.N. functions."
Source: RIA NovostiThe Vatican told Polygraph.info that Pope Francis did not congratulate Putin on his reelection. RIA Novosti later retracted the report. -
“BREAKING: We ordered the border forces of 3 provinces to attack Pakistan. Currently our operation is going on. We have captured 9 Pakistani posts & torched them. Significant damage to Pak Army brigade hq in our retaliation, says Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid.”
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid made no such statement, and Afghanistan did not invade Pakistan. -
“I am among the first speakers to be banned from traveling to the Western countries because I do not believe in homosexuality,” she said.
Source: Uganda Parliament , March 12, 2024The U.S. and U.K. imposed travel ban on Ugandan officials involved in violating human rights and undermining democracy. Ugandan rights activists also accuse Among of gross corruption. -
"People are dying in U.S. prisons too, aren’t they?"
Source: TASS, March 17, 2024The issue is not that people die while incarcerated, but why Navalny and so many other Kremlin critics end up in prison or dead. -
“I am sure that the sailors of the Black Sea Fleet will laugh together today at the fact that their command is wanted by the International Criminal Court ... this is just a nothingburger designed to stir up an information wave, nothing more.”
While Russia is a safe haven for suspected criminals, they will be arrested and brought to ICC if they travel to any of the 124 world nations that recognize the world court’s jurisdiction. Regime change in Russia can also end the impunity. -
‘’It seems having a passport and proper documentation at the airport makes people appear [more] suspicious than those crossing in millions on the borders without passports or any sought (sic) of documentation.’’
The video shows a foreign national with fake ID and invalid travel documents being questioned by U.S. Customs and Border Protection personnel. -
“…the U.S. has never found any evidence of TikTok posing a threat to the U.S.’ national security…”
ByteDance may be using the app to collect data on Americans and pass it on to the Chinese government. The app’s algorithms also are capable of influencing public opinion in the United States, where the platform has about 150 million users. -
“It is clear that, first of all, the woman who is exposed has committed the forbidden act of uncovering the hijab. Of course, she commits another mistake by shouting and attacking the young cleric.”
The woman rightfully asked a man wearing Muslim clerical clothing to delete from his mobile phone footage of her and her child he videoed without her consent. -
“Free supplies of Russian grain to Burkina Faso, Zimbabwe, Mali, Somalia, Eritrea, and the Central African Republic have made a significant contribution to the fight against hunger in Africa.”
The claim that Russia's 200,000 tons of grain would significantly contribute to fighting hunger in Africa is misleading because of the scope of the hunger problem and because Moscow has worsened the problem by backing out of the Black Sea grain deal. -
"They [the U.S.] have recently made unfounded allegations, in particular, against Russia, regarding plans to deploy nuclear weapons in space. … At the same time, they have blocked our proposal … the agreement on preventing the deployment of weapons in outer space, which we drafted back in 2008.”
Russia’s planned deployment of nuclear-armed anti-satellite weapons into space would violate the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, which Moscow signed. -
“Saudi Prince Salman: From now on, only Saudi Arabian women can decide what clothing Saudi Arabian women will wear.”
Global Eye News misquoted Prince Salman, whose public reference to women’s attire confirmed his commitment to Sharia requirements. -
''In the case of Binance, In the last year, 26 billion dollars has passed through Binance Nigeria from sources and users who we cannot adequately identify.''
Nigeria’s Central Bank is capable of tracking illicit financial transaction but isn’t doing so because of corruption.