Claim: Facebook users share a video claiming it shows Hamas’s recent strikes on Israel. Fact: The video is not real, it’s actually from a video game, Arma 3 and was posted by a Bangladeshi gamer on Facebook. On 7 October 2023 the Al Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, launched a “surprise attack” on […]
Claim: Video shows Israel’s airstrike on a water tank in the Gaza Strip. Fact: The claim is false because the video is not from Gaza. The video shows Sudan’s army targeting a fuel tank with a drone that belongs to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). On 7 October 2023, the Al Qassam Brigades, the military […]
Claim: News24 shared a post which said that Pakistan’s cricket team supports the Palestinian Islamist militant group Hamas by tweeting in favour of the group. Fact: The Pakistani cricket team did not tweet in favour of Hamas. The cricketers only shared a picture of the national flag of Palestine. The Indian media misreported and linked […]
Claim: A video on social media claims it shows the strike on Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza. Fact: The claim is false because the video is not related to the recent attack on Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza. The video is from the August 2022 escalation between Hamas and Israel. On 7 October 2023 the […]
Claim: Social media video claims it shows Israeli soldiers captured by Hamas during the recent Hamas-Israel war. Fact: The claim is misleading because the video is from 2016 in Turkey, when footage of arrested officers was broadcast on TV after a failed military coup. On 9 October 2023, a Facebook user posted a video (archived) […]
Claim: Social media video shows thousands of people gathered in Masjid Al-Aqsa and chanting slogans of “Labaik Ya Allah” after Hamas attacked Israel on 7 October 2023. Fact: The claim is misleading because the video is old, from April 2023. The crowd shows people praying during the last nights of Ramzan in Al-Aqsa Mosque. On […]
Claim: A video on social media shows Hamas firing hundreds of rockets towards Israel’s airport in Tel Aviv. Fact: The claim is false because the video is not related to the recent Palestine-Israel conflict. It was originally posted in 2020 during the Turkey and Syria conflict in Idlib. On 7 October 2023, the Al Qassam […]
Claim: Social media posts show a church in Boston which caught fire after lightning struck it during a same-sex marriage ceremony. All attendees died during the fire. Fact: The church caught fire due to a storm after lightning struck it in June 2023. There was no wedding taking place at the time of the incident […]
Claim: Multiple images shared in a Facebook post claim that it shows images of Tablighi Jamaat members after they were attacked in the Winder area of Balochistan. Fact: The claim is false; no attack took place in Winder. The same claim can be found online as early as 2019 and has been shared with different […]
Claim: A social media video claims that it shows police officers hitting Afghan women and arresting them. Fact: The claim is false as the video is old, from 2021 Swat, KP; it is not related to the recent arrests of Afghan refugees. On 17 September 2023, an X (formerly Twitter) account @ZawiaNews posted a video […]
Claim: Social media post claims that it shows missing journalist Imran Riaz Khan’s first video statement for the public after he returned home on 25 September 2023. Fact: The claim is false because the video is from July 2022, when Khan was arrested near Islamabad and was later released by the court. On 25 September […]
Claim: Social media posts claim that Kashmiri separatist leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq said that Imran Khan’s political party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), will govern Pakistan in the new government. Fact: The claim is false. The video clip is from 2018, when PTI was elected for the first time. Mirwaiz Umar Farooq did not predict that the […]