Claim: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defines the term ceasefire as an incident when someone “sees a fire”, which “could be a big fire or a small fire, a bonfire or even a candle flame”. Fact: The video is not authentic. A snippet from AOC’s real October 2023 livestream on Instagram has been doctored using altered audio. On […]
Claim: Donald Trump shared a picture of himself shaking hands with Imran Khan on X and said, “We, Imran Khan and I, can bring peace to the world [so] come support us.” Fact: There’s no evidence for this claim. The X post in question was published by @Trump47thPOTUS, an account that has now been suspended. […]
Claim US President Joe Biden admitted to taking the Pakistan Army chief on board in a conspiracy to remove former Prime Minister Imran Khan from office in April 2022, according to an audio recording. Fact Soch Fact Check conducted rigorous deepfake tests and spoke with multiple experts in the relevant fields to ascertain that the […]
Claim: Former United States President Donald Trump during a campaign speech said that Afghan women have been wearing veils for years and if he was a woman, he would do it too. Fact: The video is from Trump’s 2015 election campaign speech in New Hampshire. While he discussed women from the Middle East, he made […]
Claim: A picture shows Kamala Harris and Jeffrey Epstein posing together. Fact: The image is doctored. It actually shows Harris with her husband, Douglas Emhoff. On 22 July 2024, Facebook user ‘April Lynn’ posted (archive) a visual containing a photo allegedly showing US Vice President Kamala Harris and the late Jeffrey Epstein, a billionaire financier […]
Claim: Pictures of Donald Trump at a public event show him with an undamaged ear, days after an assassination attempt on the Republican leader. Fact: The images predate the assassination attempt in which he was injured in the ear; therefore, the claim is false. On 16 July 2024, X (formerly Twitter) user @pollyollydoodle posted (archive) […]