FACT CHECK: Did The U.K. Suspend Aid To Ukraine? | Check Your Fact
Verdict: False
The U.K. has not suspended their funding to Ukraine. U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has repeatedly affirmed his support for Ukraine.
Category Misconceptions
Film production footage sparks both Russian and Ukrainian disinformation – Truth or Fake
Images circulating on social media from a Ukrainian film production do not prove that Ukraine is staging the war, but neither do they prove "Russian illiteracy". We tell you more in this edition of Truth or Fake.
FACT CHECK: Did Time Magazine Publish This Image Of The British Home Secretary Wearing A Swastika? | Check Your Fact
Verdict: False
This image is digitally fabricated. A spokesperson for Time Magazine confirmed in an email to Check Your Fact that the image is not an authentic cover.
Has China Initiated Zero Conflicts Since Founding of PRC?
False. As attested by a number of experts and published authors on modern Chinese history, the claim in Kim Dotcom's tweet that modern China has initiated zero conflicts is false.
The People's Republic of China has started a number of conflicts, trained revolutionaries, and contributed to other conflicts in Asia. It appears that the "no conflicts" claim was made by Xi Jinping in 2021.
No, the Ukrainian president did not write a book called ‘Mein Kampf’
Is Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky the author of a new book entitled "Mein Kampf", or "My Struggle", using the same graphic design as Adolf Hitler's manifesto? This is what many people online have been claiming to be the case since October 19, 2022. But the photos they use as proof are actually just photoshopped using old images. While the Ukrainian president is indeed preparing to release a book, it has a totally different title and cover design.
No, Volodymyr Zelensky isn’t publishing his own ‘Mein Kampf’ – Truth or Fake
We debunk false claims circulating online that Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky has written and will be releasing a book with the same title as Adolf Hitler's infamous manifesto. Vedika Bahl has all the details in this edition of Truth or Fake.
Deadly floods submerge Nigeria, and misinformation accuses Ukraine of “staging” war – The Observers
A weekly news show produced with photos, videos and personal accounts from France 24 Observers around the world - all checked by our staff here in Paris.
Ad comparing spending on Ukraine, US children is ridiculously wrong
On a largely bipartisan basis, Congress has approved about $66 billion in assistance to Ukraine since it was invaded by Russia in February 2022.
• Proposals supported by President Joe Biden that won the support of only Democrats in Congress allocated $482 billion on behalf of U.S. children in 2021.
• One of the efforts from Democrats ' an expansion of the child tax credit that was included in Biden's American Rescue Plan of 2021 ' paid out $92 billion to U.S. families with children, or 1.5 times the amount that the U.S. has spent so far on Ukraine.
Our ruling
A Citizens for Sanity ad said that Biden and Democrats "send a fortune to Ukraine but nothing for our children."
On a largely bipartisan basis, Congress has approved roughly $66 billion in assistance to Ukraine.
By comparison, proposals supported by Biden and that won support of only Democrats in Congress spent $482 billion on behalf of U.S. children in 2021. The child tax credit expansion alone paid out $92 billion to U.S. families with children, or 1.5 times the amount the U.S. has spent so far on the war in Ukraine.
We rate the statement Pants on Fire!
Story about TikTok dances to help Ukraine is satire
We found the March 1 story on Cinch News. Other headlines on the site were suspicious ' "It's time to abolish gendered days," for example. A "Why" section confirmed Cinch is "a satirical publication."
We rate claims that this is a real news story False.
Did Jamie Raskin Call to Destroy ‘Christian’ Russia by Jihad?
False. Jamie Raskin did not say that the U.S. should try to destroy Russia nor that America should engage in jihad against the country's "Christian...traditional values."
Posts on Russian social media and Twitter have incorrectly taken Carlson's words as a verbatim quote from Raskin.