The barcode does not signify product’s country of origin
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The post we are fact-checking falsely suggests that if the barcode of the product starts with the digits 729, that means that the product was manufactured in Israel, which according to the barcode assigning company is not true. The digit...
Harvard students walked out of Israeli consul’s lecture but in 2019
hoto: Screenshot from the video
This event really happened, but not recently – November 2023, and not as an expression of solidarity with more than 4 thousand brutally killed children, as the Facebook post claims, but in 2019. The video clip was published by the...
Scholz did not feign there was a rocket attack before he left Tel Aviv Airport
Photo: Screenshot of the video
One cannot claim that all media were servicing some kind of Netanyahu propaganda as suggested by the post. The videos show that the sirens clearly alarmed for an air raid and rockets could be seen (according to the texts, the...
Germany records most unauthorized migrant arrivals since 2015
The number of migrants entering Germany without permission will be significantly higher this year than in previous years - but the upward trend was halted in October, according to data released by Germany's Federal Police on Monday, writes German Press Agency DPA.
The Federal Police...
University strike action and protests to hit over 50 German cities
University employees and students in Germany were set to protest on Monday to demand better pay, according to the Verdi trade union, writes German news agency DPA.
The motto of the university action day is "Put an end to precarious science," according to the union.
Organizers...
Macedonian journalists send a message on the protest: NO to censorship
Dozens of Macedonian journalists from several media outlets yesterday came out for a peaceful protest in front of the Civil Court in Skopje, expressing their revolt against the court verdict against the Investigative Reporting Laboratory (IRL), which is seen as a threat of censorship,...
Germans now eat far fewer fresh potatoes, but more crisps and chips
The German appetite for potatoes has continued to drop, even as per capita consumption of processed potato products like crisps and chips hit record levels, according to newly released government figures, writes German news agency DPA.
Total potato consumption in Germany slumped to a low...
Deepfake video manipulates that General Zaluzhny is preparing a military coup
Photo: Video screenshot
The video in which the Supreme Commander of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, General Valerii Zaluzhnyi, allegedly, calls for a military coup and speaks against Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a high-quality fake video, or so-called “deepfake”, created with the help of artificial...
It is not true that Russia has defeated Ukraine, nor is it at war with the EU and NATO
The post is spreading disinformation that the Russian military actions on the territory of Ukraine, which took place on 24 February completely unprovoked, are over and that, allegedly, Russia was the winner. The military invasion and the Ukrainian defense, however, are still ongoing and...
Siemens and Schaeffler test AI to alleviate shortage of workers
German manufacturing giants Siemens and Schaeffler are testing the use of artificial intelligence for machine control as a solution to the shortage of skilled workers, writes German news agency DPA.
As a co-pilot, AI should help to programme machines faster and more easily than human...
The mass media never declared “Ukraine is done with!”, nor should they be blamed for the war victims
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Neither mass media have recognized that “Ukraine is Done With”, nor should journalists be blamed for the thousands of lives lost in Ukraine, as the post claims. The journalists did not encourage the military invasion of Ukraine, Russia did, while Ukraine...
German railway draws up strike timetable with ‘XXL’ trains
Germany's national railway company, Deutsche Bahn, has drawn up an emergency timetable due to the threats of strikes by the GDL train drivers' union, writes German news agency DPA.
"As with previous GDL strikes, DB has drawn up an emergency timetable with a greatly reduced...
Bundeswehr deploys Eurofighter jets to Romania for air protection
The German Air Force will be involved in protecting the south-eastern flank of NATO with Eurofighter aircraft starting at the end of the month, writes German news agency DPA.
A preliminary deployment was due to take off for Romania on Thursday, security sources told dpa...
A manipulation lessens the Ukrainian death toll in the Russian aggression
The post is manipulative and presents false information with the intent to belittle the Russian aggression in Ukraine and the Ukrainian death toll. Moreover, somewhat of a comparison is made with the children killed, as an attempt to belittle the number of child victims...
German president calls on Arab-Germans to denounce Hamas
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier demanded that people with Palestinian and Arab roots living in Germany to distance themselves from the Islamist militant group Hamas during a roundtable discussion on Wednesday, writes German news agency DPA.
"Do not allow yourselves to be instrumentalized by Hamas' accomplices,"...
Tepid praise, criticism for German political deal on migration
A tentative agreement on migration and asylum policy struck by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and other leading politicians overnight met mixed reviews on Tuesday, writes German news agency DPA.
Members of Scholz's centre-left coalition government hailed the deal as a major turning point, while conservatives...
Survey: Most German students have used ChatGPT for homework
Around a year after the hype surrounding ChatGPT began, tools like this have arrived in the everyday educational lives of many young people in Germany, according to a new survey, writes the news agency DPA.
The survey found that 68% of school pupils, trainees and...
Cristina Tardáguila: Journalism is the best profession in the world and fact-checkers are more than needed
Cristina Tardáguila, an inspirational and energetic journalist from Brazil is the founder of Agência Lupa, the first fact-checking initiative in her country. She is the former International Fact-Checking Network’s Associate Director. As a reporter and/or an editor, Tardáguila has worked in some of the...
Contrary to the disinformation that they are childless, most of the European leaders have children
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A Facebook post falsely claims that the leaders of EU member states have no offspring. A Truthmeter fact-check, however, proved that most of the prime ministers and presidents of EU Member-States have children, including the President of the European Commission, Ursula...
Zelensky is not implementing “extremist regime of ethnic cleansing and genocide”
Ukraine is a republic with a presidential-parliamentary system of government, which is defined within the Constitution from 1996. Just before Russia attacked Ukraine in February 2022, Moscow falsely accused Ukraine of genocide against Russian-speaking citizens in the Donbas region. Putin used this narrative to...
