Fact Check
Friday 19 April 2024
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Lord Bebo
X influencer
“Russian delegation in the UN Security Council left the meeting before Israel's speech.”
Read more...Russia’s top diplomats walked out of the U.N. Security Council meeting when Israel’s representative took the stage. -
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Sprinter Factory
X content creator
“After Iran attacked Israel, the focus shifted away from Gaza and Gaza children were able to play on the beaches.”
Read more...There is no connection between Iranian strikes on Israel and the Palestinians’ ability to go to the beach in central Gaza. -
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Evghenia Guțul
Gagauzian Governor
"…I and many residents, and even the majority of residents of Gagauzia, and even of Moldova, are against Moldova joining the European Union.”
Read more...Public opinion polls in Moldova demonstrate consistent majority support for the nation's accession to the European Union. -
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Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR)
“…American private military companies, under the guidance of the Drug Enforcement Administration and the FBI, have begun to recruit Mexican and Colombian drug cartels' members, who are serving their sentence in American prisons, to take part in the Ukrainian conflict on the side of Kyiv’s degrading regime.”
Read more...Contrary to Russia’s well-documented state-backed campaign to enlist criminals and foreigners to fight in Ukraine, Russian foreign intelligence provided no evidence to support its allegations against the United States. -
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Paul Kagame
,Rwandan president
“…. Why are we being accused of supporting M23. ... For those accusing us, actually, I should accuse them of not supporting M23 because it is as if they agree with the injustice that is being done to this community.’’
Read more...Kagame is condoning and supporting a group that stands accused of serious human rights violations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The U.S. and the U.N., both of which have sanctioned the M23 militants, have accused Kagame’s government of supporting the group. -
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Sergey Lavrov
Russian Foreign Minister
"Recently, Kyiv Mayor Vitaly Klitschko adopted a resolution prohibiting any cultural or educational events in Russian from being held in Kyiv. Even in everyday life, if anyone speaks Russian at school during breaks or addresses a shop assistant in Russian, they can face administrative charges.”
Read more...In July 2023, the Kyiv City Council introduced a moratorium on the use of “Russian-language cultural products” such as books, songs and films in the city. While people are permitted to speak Russian in Kyiv and elsewhere in Ukraine, as of 2023, most Ukrainians spoke only Ukrainian in daily life. -
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Olexander Scherba
Ukrainian diplomat, former ambassador to Austria
“In #russia, a bridge near Smolensk falls on a strategically important railway. Sad. “#StandWithUkraine #RussiaIsCollapsing”
Read more...While a train did collapse in western Russia on April 8, footage being widely shared on X is from a 2018 incident. -
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Bayo Onanuga
special adviser to the Nigerian president
“Nigeria is safe… It’s one of the safest countries in the world… [r]elatively safer [compared to South Africa and the United States], because I am in Abuja now, I’m safe. I go to my town, I’m safe. I go to Lagos, I’m safe.”
Read more...The Global Terrorism Index ranks Nigeria eighth among the ten countries most impacted by terrorism, while, according to the Global Organized Crime Index, Nigeria has the world’s sixth “highest criminality rate,” far worse than the U.S., which is ranked 67th. -
![Najeeb Barwar, Afghan emigre poet]()
Najeeb Barwar, Afghan emigre poet
“I come from the distant regions of Iran, from the mountains of the Hindukush and Panjshir."
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![Vyacheslav Volodin]()
Vyacheslav Volodin
Chairman of Russian State Duma
“Women received political rights in 1918, but they received real power only now, under President Putin and United Russia’s majority ... previously, all this was more for decoration.”
Read more...The United Nations recommends that women hold at least 30% of political leadership positions so that women can influence decision-making. Russia is far below the UN threshold. -
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Sergey Naryshkin
Director, Russian Foreign Intelligence Service
"The FSB had received certain information from US intelligence services that, unfortunately, such [an attack] was possible. But, as our Russian counterparts have said, that information was very vague and it did not allow us to identify those behind the deadly crime."
Read more...The U.S. warned Russia that Crocus City Hall was a potential target of a terror attack weeks in advance, officials say. -
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Rajendra Singh, RS, X influencer
“Pakistani Punjab police mercilessly beating an Afghan man, accusing him of theft.”
Read more...There is no evidence the video shows Punjabi police officers. Reliable news outlets reported the police officers in the video were from Peshawar. The reports do not mention the nationality of the alleged criminal.
