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False: The government is offering free smartphones to anyone who receives welfare payments. The claim that welfare recipients are eligible for free smartphones provided by the Australian government is false. The phones do not exist, the users making the posts are not associated with the government and the posts are marketing and phishing scams. (Source: Australian Associated Press - AAP)

False: Indian prime minister watching Bageshwar dham on TV Two videos of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi have been shared on social media posts alongside a false claim that they show him watching a Hindu nationalist Hindutva religious preacher Dhirendra Krishna Shastri on a TV screen. However, the videos are digitally altered. One of the original clips shows Modi watching a satellite liftoff, while the other shows him having a meeting with senior government officials. (Source: Agence France-Presse - AFP)