Claim: On 7 October 2023, Hamas “raped & kidnapped” the daughter of Ireland’s minister of defence and foreign affairs, Micheál Martin, “kidnapped” the daughter of Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris, and “raped & kidnapped” the wife of Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre. Fact: The posts carrying the aforementioned claims have no basis in reality […]
Claim: An Indian man will send an artificial limb for a camel whose right leg was chopped off in Sindh’s Sanghar district on 14 June. Fact: The camel will not receive any prosthetic limb from India. Instead, a Pakistani company, Bioniks, is supporting the injured animal by working on a prosthesis. On 16 June 2024, news […]
Claim: American professor, linguist and activist Noam Chomsky has died. Fact: Chomsky is alive. His wife refuted reports of his death, clarifying that he was hospitalised in Sao Paulo, Brazil but has now been discharged. On 19 June 2024, X (formerly Twitter) user @NiohBerg claimed that American professor, linguist and intellectual Noam Chomsky had died. […]
Claim: The Israeli consulate in Istanbul was attacked and set on fire by protesters after the May 2024 airstrike on Rafah. Fact: There are no reliable reports about the Israeli consulate in Istanbul being attacked or set on fire during a protest on 27 May 2024. Three Turkish journalists and fact-checkers also asserted that the […]
Claim: A viral video clip shows US President Biden falling asleep on stage during a Memorial Day observance event. Fact: A video clip with poor resolution was shared without context to make it look like President Joe Biden fell asleep during the event. On 27 May 2024 X (formerly Twitter) user @TPostMillennial shared a video […]
Claim: A viral video suggests that a significant number of Argentines are converting to Islam, as evidenced by footage of a woman visiting a mosque, converting to Islam, and reciting the Shahada, in accordance with Islamic traditions. Fact: The video in question is misleading; it was actually filmed at the Islamic Centre South West Ontario […]
Claim: A screenshot of a New York Post article suggests that the United States Congress will vote on a bill that criminalises questioning the events surrounding the 11 September 2001 attacks. Fact: The screenshot of the New York Post article is altered. The publication did not report on any such story, and there is no […]
Claim: A group of pictures show the crash site of a helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian. Fact: Four of the five images are actually from May 2019 and unrelated to the Raisi helicopter crash. On 20 May 2024, X (formerly Twitter) user @ShaykhSulaiman shared (archive) four pictures, in a […]
Claim: Live CCTV footage purportedly shows the Iran President’s helicopter crash. Fact: The original video is from 2022 when a helicopter crashed in a jungle in Panama. It is unrelated to Ebrahim Raisi’s helicopter crash. On 24 May 2024, a user on X (formerly Twitter) posted a video with the caption, “Helicopter crash: Accident or […]
Claim: A stone tablet depicting a man in front of a computer proves technology existed in “ancient times”. Fact: The stone tablet is not authentic but an artwork created by Mexico-based illustrator, Raul Cruz. On 14 May 2024, Threads user @ishowcybersecurity posted (archive) an image of what appears to be a stone tablet depicting a […]
Claim: An image shows people taking shelter at the Kharkiv metro station, allegedly during the Russian bombing on 26 May 2024. Fact: The image is not recent. It does show people taking shelter at the Kharkiv metro station but the picture is from two years ago when Russia began its invasion of Ukraine in February […]
Claim: The Afghan Taliban government has made a deal with the US government for the release of Dr Aafia Siddiqui, in exchange for seven American prisoners from Afghanistan. Aafia Siddiqui has reached Kabul. Fact: Siddqui has not been released and no agreement regarding her release has been made between the US government and the Afghan […]