Uncheckable: “The biggest lie from this election is that nuclear energy will help to achieve the climate goals”.

Fact-check, UncheckableBy Utrecht University of Applied Sciences, NL April 2, 2021

In the first national election debate, broadcasted by RTL4, leaders of political parties in the Netherlands were asked to take a stance on several important issues. One of the statements, about climate change was: “In order to achieve the climate goals the Netherlands must build new nuclear power plants”. Conservative parties such as the VVD (liberal party), the PVV (nationalist party)…

UNCHECKABLE: “Russian workers are twice less productive than Italian ones”

Fact-check, UncheckableBy Lobachevsky University Russia March 17, 2021

On November 10, 2020, at 20:28 the Internet version of the Russian edition of “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” published an article with the headline: “To Catch up with Italy Russia has to Fire Half of its Workers”. Anastasia Bashkatova, Deputy Head of the Economics Department of “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” quoted First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov saying that…

Uncheckable: In Brussels, the trade fair for live goods began. Children are put up for sale

Fact-check, UncheckableBy South Ural State University, RU February 19, 2021

Wpolitce.pl – a popular Polish right-wing news portal and TVP Info, a state news channel, report on alleged human trafficking taking place at Men Having Babies conference in Brussels. Misconception caused by terminology used in an article Due to the conservative predilection of the reporter – Grzegorz Górny – an article gains a tabloid tint.…

Uncheckable: “Pancreatitis, not poison, caused Alexei Navalny to fall ill”

Fact-check, UncheckableBy Jade Hochschule, University of Applied Sciences, Wilhelmshaven, DE January 11, 2021

In the case of the collapse of Alexei Navalny, Russian officials claim that “pancreatitis, not poison, caused Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny to fall ill.” While the EU assumes poisoning, Russian officials are convinced that pancreatitis was the cause. Since no access to medical records is available, the claim is uncheckable”. First of all, a brief…

Uncheckable: “Russian news services advertise Covid-19 demonstrations in Germany”

Fact-check, UncheckableBy Jade Hochschule, University of Applied Sciences, Wilhelmshaven, DE November 16, 2020 2 Comments

Thomas Haldenwang, president of the German intelligence service “Verfassungsschutz”, claimed that “the Internet channel RT Deutsch and the news agency Sputnik advertised so-called Hygienedemos and exaggerated them afterwards“. Our research doesn’t prove Haldenwang right but it’s possible that the Verfassungsschutz uses different sources which is why we assess the claim as uncheckable. The Federal Office…

Uncheckable: “Every euro that we give towards the EU budget, 12 euros will be returned to the Dutch business community”

Fact-check, UncheckableBy Utrecht University of Applied Sciences, NL July 20, 2020

Dutch politicians are regularly seen in late night talk shows, especially during the corona crisis. In the Dutch talk show ‘Op1’ party leader Rob Jetten from the social-liberal party D66 took part in a discussion and tried to explain how important the proposed Merkel-Macron Corona virus relief agreement is for the EU and the Netherlands.…

Uncheckable: Religious and political leaders claim that same-sex marriage is the reason for corona

Fact-check, UncheckableBy Utrecht University of Applied Sciences, NL June 22, 2020

Worldwide many influential religious and political leaders are linking the coronavirus to the legislation of same-sex marriage. They claim that the outbreak of the pandemic is the punishment and reckoning of God. These statements are uncheckable by nature, but to show how widespread this kind of misinformation is, EUfactcheck gives an overview of the different…

Uncheckable: “We’re living through the biggest carbon crash ever recorded.”

Fact-check, UncheckableBy Utrecht University of Applied Sciences, NL June 12, 2020

On the 6th of May 2020, the BBC published a story with the headline “Climate change and coronavirus: Five charts about the biggest carbon crash”. The article goes on to state that “We’re living through the biggest carbon crash ever recorded.” This claim is uncheckable.

Uncheckable: “Trains are 10 times more environmentally friendly than airplanes”

Fact-check, UncheckableBy AP University College, BE June 3, 2020

The Belgian and Austrian railway companies NMBS and ÖBB claim that the new night train between Brussels and Vienna is 10 times more environmentally friendly than airplanes. This claim was published in many Belgian media as ‘Het Laatste Nieuws’, ‘Knack’ and ‘Dewereldmorgen’. The claim turns out to be uncheckable. Both NMBS and ÖBB were unable…

Uncheckable: Non-medical face masks are more infection-nurturing than virus-repellent if they are consistently put in handbags and reworn.

Fact-check, UncheckableBy University of Applied Sciences for Mgmt and Comm Vienna, AT May 29, 2020

During an interview with the Austrian daily newspaper Der Standard Austrian health expert Claudia Wild stated the following: “The climate between the authority- or virus-thralled people and the ones who actually looked into the subject of these ridiculous masks making any kind of difference regarding infection, is getting worse. They (non-medical face masks) are more…

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