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Missing Context: The 60+ Oyster card counts as voter ID, but the 18+ Student Oyster card doesn't, and this amounts to "voter suppression" or "election rigging". The 2023 local elections are the first in England to require all voters to show a form of photo ID in order to vote. The introduction of voter ID has been the subject of significant controversy since it was passed into law last April. The government says that voter ID is "a reaso (Source: Full Fact)

Missing Context: French TV report from 2015 about UK pedophile inquiry shared as new A video of French news coverage in 2015 of a historic UK child sex abuse inquiry is being shared online as though it shows events in 2023. One Facebook user uploaded the 83-second clip in late April alongside text reading: “BREAKING NEWS On french TV. Scandal in UK. Huge pedo rin (Source: Reuters)

Misleading: The picture shows President Murmu in her kitchen living a simple life. HYDERABAD: India welcomed its first tribal President Droupadi Murmu on July 25. Soon after, a picture of a woman seated in a kitchen in front of a gas stove began circulating on social media claiming to show Murmu's humble start and lifestyle.Shortly, many other users began shari (Source: Newsmeter)

False: Suresh Chavhanke's wife has eloped with a Muslim man The claim that Sudarshan News Editor-in-Chief Suresh Chavhanke's wife eloped with a Muslim youth is false. The breaking news template of the Hindi news channel 'Aaj Tak' has also been prepared with editing tools.New Delhi (Vishvas News): A post targeting the wife of Sudarshan New (Source: Vishvasnews)