Cristiano Ronaldo decided to transform all the hotels he owns into makeshift hospitals to receive patients infected with Covid-19, so that they can be treated there, completely free of charge. THE news started circulating through WhatsApp, but a few hours later it was already making headlines in the Spanish sports newspaper “Marca”.
Is the extraordinary gesture of generosity and altruism confirmed, or is this another rumor that, this time, even journalists managed to deceive?
A news reached many Portuguese this Saturday night through the social network WhatsApp, through an image that looks like a news clipping, extracted from a website.
After the title and a photograph of the Juventus Turin player, a short and objective text: “Cristiano Ronaldo's hotels will become hospitals from next week where the infected with Covid-19 in Portugal may be treated totally free. The Portuguese international will still support all costs with doctors and workers”.
Truth or falsehood?
A short time later, on TVI24, commentator Rui Pedro Braz denied the news, claiming to be in possession of sufficient information to claim that Cristiano Ronaldo's hotels will not be turned into hospitals.
Later, the newspaper “Observer” contacted a source close to the player who pointed in the same direction: Cristiano Ronaldo is not considering any measure of this kind.
Proof that the news was just a rumor is the fact that, however, Ronaldo's former brother-in-law has off the publication that praised Cristiano Ronaldo, the newspaper “Marca” having withdrawn the news from the website and the Arena Desportiva platform has requested excuse for publishing the information, claiming that its professionals were misled by sources that used to be credible.
Polygraph Evaluation:
FALSE
Editorial Note of Sul Informação: This fact-check was originally published in Poligrafo on March 15, at 14:46 e can be read here.
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