Your weekly fact-checks
#Ukraine
False: Image of Polish weather map engulfing parts of Ukraine is fake
A still image from what initially appears to be a Polish weather broadcast has been shared widely online because the map used for Poland appears to engulf part of Ukraine. The image carries the logo for TVP1, the Polish public television channel. (Source: reuters)
Altered: Video of Biden’s Ukraine speech was digitally altered
An edited video of U.S. President Joe Biden making a speech alongside Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenskyy is being shared online. Moments where Biden stuttered during the speech were edited together, however. An example with more than 181,000 likes at the time of publishing. (Source: reuters)
#Inflation
False: Hellmann’s mayonnaise is discontinuing the product globally due to high inflationary import costs.
Social media users on Tuesday lamented what they thought was the latest loss to soaring egg costs and inflation: their favorite brand of mayonnaise. (Source: apnews)
#US politics
Misleading: 10.8 million ‘unaccounted for’ ballots in 2022 midterm in California not an indication of fraud
The state of California automatically sends ballots to all registered voters, who are then permitted either to vote by mail or in person. During the 2022 midterm elections in California 21.9 million ballots were sent out and 11.1 million people voted, leaving around 10.8 million sent to voters who did not cast them. (Source: reuters)
False: The last Republican U.S. president who also won the popular vote was George W. Bush in 2004
The last Republican to have won a U.S. presidential election as well as the popular vote was George W. Bush in 2004. Bush left office 14 years ago, in 2009, but social media users are claiming that the last Republican president who also won the popular vote left office nearly 30 years ago. (Source: reuters)
#Climate change
Unknown: It’s Too Soon to Attribute the California Storms to Climate Change, Experts Say
The relentless storms that hit California from Dec. 27 to Jan. 16 caused extreme flooding and extensive damage in most of the state, killing at least 22 people. A series of storms hit back to back, soaking the state in the midst of California’s driest three-year period on record. (Source: factcheck_org)
Misleading: Scotland’s ‘20-minute neighbourhoods’ policy addresses climate change and infrastructure; there are no plans to imprison people or limit freedom of movement
Social media users claim a Scottish climate policy will imprison people in their homes and prevent them from leaving their respective ‘districts’. However, no details in the public documents about the proposal suggest this will happen. (Source: reuters)
#Nordics
Oslo har ikke landets beste sykehjemsdekning.: [Oslo] er vel den som har den beste sykehjemsdekningen i Norge.
Ikke minst har landets politikere måttet tåle kritiske spørsmål om behandlingen eldre blir til del.
Og selv om byrådslederen erkjente at det fortsatt finnes utfordringer i sektoren, slo han fast at Oslo har landets beste sykehjemsdekning.
Omsorgsboliger og hjemmetjeneste er andre viktige variabler i spørsmål om eldreomsorg, men i denne faktasjekken er det sykehjemsdekning som er tema.
Lager man en tilsvarende oversikt for landets tolv største byer, er Oslo på femteplass.
Så hvorfor sa da Raymond Johansen at Oslo har landets beste sykehjemsdekning? (Source: faktisk)
Misvisende: Opfordring til at bruge flere kontanter deles i tusindvis, men kortet er altså billigere
Hæv et kontant beløb hver måned til at bruge i den daglige handel. Sådan lyder opfordringen i adskillige facebookopslag , der gør opmærksom på fordelene ved at betale med kontanter frem for betalingskort. For mens en 100-kroneseddel altid vil være 100 kroner værd, vil gebyrer få den digitale pengeseddel til at miste sin værdi, hver gang du svinger dankortet. (Source: tjekdet)
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