Claim: A viral Instagram video from a profile called “nova.space” claims to show meteors hitting the Earth in real-time. Fact: The video uses computer-generated graphics and it is evident that this could not be real because the video shows meteors firing up with a trail of smoke a long time before they even reach Earth’s […]
Claim: A Palestinian ‘crisis actor’ has pretended to be a freedom fighter, blood donor, foster father, a resilient patient, a revived corpse, a war correspondent, a contestant in American Idol, a radiology technician and a tour guide. Fact: The man in the images is Saleh Aljafarawi, a Palestinian social media influencer and blogger who lives […]
Claim: Zahir Jaffer, who beheaded Noor Mukaddam has been released and plans to go to the United States of America. Fact: Central Jail Rawalpindi confirmed that Zahir Jaffer has not been released, and is still imprisoned at the Adiala Jail. Advocate Shah Khawar, who is a legal counsel for Noor Mukadam’s family, also confirmed that […]
Claim: Cricket Australia dedicated its World Cup trophy to Imran Khan and invited him to Australia as a chief guest to present him with the Medal of the Order of Australia. Fact: Cricket Australia has confirmed to Soch Fact Check that no such letter or invitation has been sent to Imran Khan and that the […]
Claim: Pakistan has not supplied any arms to Ukraine, even through third parties. Pakistan’s caretaker prime minister also further said that any Pakistani arms in Ukraine must have reached there through the black market. Fact: Pakistan has supplied arms to Ukraine through private military contractors under a US military aid program. The fact stands confirmed […]
Claim: PML-N leader from Jhang, Mehar Afzal Bharwana was tortured and stripped naked by the public after he went to the neighbourhood to ask for votes as a part of his election campaign. Fact: Bharwana from Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) was beaten up and stripped naked by people he had a land dispute with, […]
Claim: A wanted terrorist from Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), Mufti Qaiser Farooq, has been gunned down by unknown men in Karachi. He was one of the founding members of LeT, and a close associate of the terrorist, Hafiz Saeed. Fact: Mufti Qaiser Farooq was a religious scholar, gunned down by unknown men in a targeted attack in […]
Claim: Pakistani celebrity Hadiqa Kiyani built 370 homes, two maternity centers and 200 mosques for survivors in the aftermath of the 2022 monsoon floods in Balochistan, Pakistan. Fact: Singer and actress Hadiqa Kiyani did not build 200, but two mosques for the flood survivors in Balochistan. On 16 October 2023, a Facebook page called […]
Claim: British-Pakistani men are disproportionately involved in grooming and sexually exploiting young girls across the United Kingdom. Fact: The claim is misleading, according to a report published by the Home Office and the Independent Press Standards Organisation. There is no reliable evidence to suggest that British-Pakistani men are more likely to commit such crimes than men […]
Claim: Pro-Palestine students at Stanford University wrote an antisemitic message saying, “Come chat about how Jewish babies should be burned alive” in chalk on the ground while staging a sit-in on campus. Fact: The chalking was not done by students staging the sit-in, but by a member of the Jewish community who was trying to […]
Claim: PML-N leader, Ataullah Tarar attempted to persuade people in his constituency to vote for him by saying, “We’ve made an agreement (with the army to come into power). If you vote for someone else, your vote will be wasted. You won’t have any say in our government.” after which he was pelted with stones […]
Claim: Canada, Australia, and Saudi Arabia announced at the 2023 OIC meeting that they wanted the people of Kashmir to attain freedom and condemned the Indian forces’ operations in Kashmir as oppressive. The Hindustan Times in India published articles expressing severe concerns regarding the alleged statement by Mohammad bin Salman’s government and countries like the […]