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#Elections2024
This week's election: Algerian Presidential Election
Arab News
Election Date: 07/09/2024
On 21 March 2024 the office of incumbent President Abdelmadjid Tebboune announced that the election would be held on 7 September. This was a surprise as the elections were anticipated to be held in December as they were in 2019. Tebboune later explained that the date was the optimal time to hold the election "because it coincides with the end of the summer vacations and the start of the new school year", hereby ensuring high turnout. However, some have questioned the logic of the timing, pointing out that a September election would mean that campaigning would be held amid scorching summer temperatures.
#Politics
Full Fact
False: CNN's fact check of Kamala Harris's speech at the Democratic National Convention showed she lied 113 times.
A claim that CNN's fact check of US Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris's speech at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) showed "she lied 113 times" has been circulating on social media. CNN’s analysis of the speech looked at five claims. Fact checks conducted by other outlets focused on a similar number of claims—nowhere near the 113 suggested in posts on social media.
PolitiFact
False: The order of candidate names on North Carolina’s ballot shows a “clear attempt at voter manipulation.”
Vice President Kamala Harris’ and other presidential candidates’ names appear above Donald Trump’s on North Carolina’s ballot. The order of names is chosen at random before every election. Trump’s name appeared first on the ballot in both the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections.
PolitiFact
False: Rep. Elissa Slotkin “voted recently to let illegals vote in U.S. elections.”
Michigan Rep. Elissa Slotkin voted against a Republican-backed bill that would have required documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote. It’s already illegal for noncitizens to vote in federal elections. Slotkin’s vote did nothing to change that. In 2023 and 2024, Slotkin voted to support Republican-led measures to prohibit noncitizen voting in local Washington, D.C., races. Noncitizen voting is exceedingly rare, and states have several systems to prevent it.
Newschecker
False: X post by Prime Minister Narendra Modi assuring citizens that popular messaging app, Telegram, will not be banned in India.
This X post is a fabricated image. No post was made on Modi's X account that supports the claims in that were in the image.
#Economy
PolitiFact
Half-True: Former President Donald Trump "intends to enact what, in effect, is a national sales tax ... that would raise prices on middle-class families by almost $4,000 a year."
During his 2024 presidential campaign, former President Donald Trump has repeatedly proposed wide-ranging tariffs on imported goods. The specific projected dollar impact on consumers varies. Two estimates we found broadly support Harris’ $4,000 figure; two others show a smaller — though still significant — impact.
Africa Check
True: The Japanese government gives their loans at about 1%, 1.7%, 1.5%...".
The minister is correct that Kenya pays nearly three times more interest on its domestic debt than on foreign debt, yet there’s a near-halfway split between foreign and domestic debt. He also nailed the low interest rates on Japanese bilateral loans. Available data supports his claim that Kenya has been running a sugar deficit, forcing the country to import the key commodity. However, he understated the amount of value-added tax collected as a proportion of gross domestic product (GDP).
#Healthcare
Africa Check
False: Mpox Has Been Declared No Longer A Global Health Emergency.
The World Health Organization has not reversed its classification of mpox as a global public health emergency. In August 2024, the WHO declared an outbreak of mpox a public health emergency of international concern. Another outbreak, driven by a different strain of the virus, was declared a public health emergency in 2022 and downgraded again in 2023 as the outbreak eased. An old video is being shared out of context in August 2024 to incorrectly claim that the 2024 emergency was repealed within days.
Full Fact
False: The World Health Organisation has ordered governments to prepare for mega lockdowns due to a deadly monkeypox strain.
This isn’t the case. The WHO has declared monkeypox, also known as mpox, a public health emergency of international concern but has not ordered any preparation for lockdown. Additionally the WHO does not have the power to impose lockdown mandates.
#Conflicts
Reuters
False: Israeli opinion poll mistranslated as saying soldiers ‘should rape prisoners’.
A screenshot of a survey by an Israeli think tank has been mistranslated on social media to falsely claim that a majority of Jewish Israelis believe the country’s soldiers should be able to “rape Palestinian prisoners. According to a translation a poll was publishing asking how the givernment should deal with 5 suspected prisoners. The actual poll shows 65% of Jewish Israelis answered: “They should be dealt with disciplinarily at the command level only.” An estimated 21% answered: “They should be brought to criminal trial," while 14% answered: “I don’t know.”
#Nordics
AFP
Väärin: IPCC yritti salata sen tosiasian, että maapallon lämpeneminen johtuu lisääntyneestä säteilyn absorptiosta pilvistä, ei ihmisen toiminnasta.
Pilvet ovat tärkeä tutkimuskohde, ja vielä on monia avoimia kysymyksiä siitä, miten ne vaikuttavat ilmastonmuutokseen. Pilvissä tapahtuvia muutoksia pidetään kuitenkin yleisesti lämpenemisen takaisinkytkentävaikutuksena eikä sen alkuperäisenä syynä. IPCC:n kuvaajassa tiedot on esitetty paneelin raportointikäytäntöjen mukaisesti.
Snopes
True: A Disney short film features Donald Duck dreaming he worked in a munitions factory in Nazi Germany.
The scene in question is part of a nightmare sequence in the 1943 propaganda cartoon "Der Fuehrer’s Face," released during World War II. The short film in question is titled "Der Fuehrer's Face," produced by Walt Disney Productions and released in 1943 during World War II. The film, which runs for about eight minutes, is indeed centered around Donald Duck experiencing a nightmare in which he works in a factory in Nazi Germany. In 1943, the short film won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, at the time known as short subject (cartoon). The Walt Disney Family Museum's website explained the film's goal of deriding and condemning the evils of Nazism "is far from subtle in its approach"
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