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False: Salvini: “My government will repatriate 100,000 migrants per year”

Fact-check, FalseBy Catholic University of Milan, IT March 13, 2019 Leave a comment

On 26th November 2017, now-Italian Minister of the Interior said: “If elected, the centre-right government must guarantee 100.000 expulsions per year, in order to get half a million irregular migrants back to their countries in five years”. His promise has turned out to be false.

False: “Almost 50.000 elephants are being poached a year”

Fact-check, FalseBy Utrecht University of Applied Sciences, NL January 16, 2019 Leave a comment

When the Netherlands announced a national ban on ivory trade on December 17th 2018, Dutch D66 European Parliament member Gerben Jan Gerbrandy shared an article from the D66’s website. In this article, Gerbrandy is quoted saying: Almost 50.000 elephants are being poached a year.” But reliable data shows this number is way too high.