Claim: The United Kingdom has banned five Pakistani banks from being used for submitting bank statements in student visa applications. These banks include UBL Bank, MCB Bank, National Bank of Pakistan, Faysal Bank, and Allied Bank. Fact: The UK has not banned the aforementioned Pakistani banks from providing statements to support student visa applications. On […]
Claim: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan reminisced about Imran Khan while addressing the National Assembly during his February 2025 trip. He said he “wished” that he “could shake hands with” the former prime minister and hoped to “meet Imran Khan” in the future. Fact: Erdoğan did not make any such remarks; in fact, he never […]
Claim: Dubai will give individuals 50,000 dirhams if they give birth to babies. Fact: The posts making this claim are a scam. A Facebook user shared a reel (archive) of a Geo News’ bulletin where the anchor reports that Dubai’s government has offered to pay individuals who give birth to children. The text in the […]
Claim: A video shows Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dancing. Fact: The video is altered and does not show Zelenskyy. On 19 February, an X user posted a video (archive) apparently showing Zelenskyy dancing in a red dress. The caption reads: “Zelenskyy before he became a CIA plant for regime change in Ukraine.” The caption likely […]
Claim 1: German police took a Muslim child away from her family because the parents had taught her homosexuality is forbidden in Islam. Fact 1: German police did take a Muslim child away from its family, but not because the child was being taught that homosexuality is forbidden in Islam. The Bremerhaven police has […]
Claim: A collage of photos shows Sudan’s Defence Minister Aqeed Ibrahim, comparing how he appeared during his time in power to his current impoverished state. Fact: Sudan does not have any Defence Minister by the name of Aqeed Ibrahim. One of the photos going viral shows Lieutenant General Omar Zain al-Abdin, the head of […]
Claim: A rally was held in China in support of Imran Khan. Fact: The absence of credible news reports, along withl inconsistencies in the video, suggest that it is not from China and neither does it show a political rally. In fact, it likely shows a Christmas parade in Germany. A video (archive) shared on […]
Claim: A video shows Trump breaking down and crying over the January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires during a visit to the disaster site in California. Fact: The video is most likely AI-generated. Just a week after wildfires erupted in Los Angeles on 7 January 2025, multiple posts surfaced on social media carrying a video of […]
Claim: US President Donald Trump called Imran Khan a convict who was involved in fraudulent cases. Trump further said that the Pakistani diaspora in the US urged him to advocate for the release of the jailed former Prime Minister of Pakistan. Fact: Trump did not make any such statement about Imran Khan. The audio in […]
Claim: The image shows a Delta passenger jet lying upside down after it made a rough landing and crashed at Toronto Pearson Airport in Canada on 17 February. Fact: While it is true that a Delta airplane turned upside down and crashed at Toronto Pearson Airport in Canada, the image in the claim is AI-generated. […]
Claim: An video clip circulating on social media supposedly features US President Donald Trump making statements about Imran Khan and Pakistan’s incumbent government in an interview. He can be heard criticising former US President Joe Biden, Prime Minister of Pakistan Shehbaz Sharif and the Pakistani Army. Fact: Trump never made such statements. Audio analysis, AI […]
Claim: A combination of videos show the destruction caused by a storm, likely Éowyn, in the UK in January 2025. Fact: None of the visuals are from any of the storms that hit the UK in January 2025. Two of the videos are old and unrelated whereas a third one was created using digital manipulation […]