Topic

Rain

True False
False

Claim: Pictures show overloaded clouds that fell to the ground in Mithi in Sindh’s Tharparkar. Fact: The claim is false as it is scientifically impossible for clouds to fall on the ground. Multiple experts have explained that the white blobs are likely some kind of industrial waste, wastewater with chemicals or just pollution, meaning that […]

Read More
True False

Claim: A viral Snapchat mashup shows several video clips of the recent rainstorm in the UAE. Fact: All ten of these clips are from last year, 2023.  On 16 April 2024, Soch Fact Check received a request to verify a mashup of video clips which was “Forwarded many times” on WhatsApp. The video shows multiple […]

Read More
True False

Claim: A video shows a Pakistan International Airlines plane moving through a flooded runway at Allama Iqbal International Airport in Lahore amid record-high rainfall. Fact: The video is old, dating back to August 2020. It also made rounds on social media in 2022 with a similar claim. Fact or Fiction? On 22 July 2023, Twitter […]

Read More
True False

  Claim:  A video from ABP News shows terrifying visuals of torrential rainfall and extreme winds in Karachi ahead of cyclone Biparjoy. Fact: The video contains misleading and inaccurate visuals that do not reflect the actual weather conditions in Karachi before or during the cyclone. The video shows calm sea and winds, old footage of […]

Read More
True False

Claim: Video clips uploaded on Twitter, Facebook, and TikTok show raining worms in China. Fact:  The videos actually show catkins and not worms. Catkins are a cylindrical flower from poplar trees which appears to be wriggling in the rain, giving the appearance of worms. From 11 March 2023, Twitter, Facebook and TikTok were flooded with […]

Read More
True False

Claim: A video doing the rounds on social media shows a glimpse of a BRT Peshawar Bus Rapid Transport (BRT) station flooded following a recent bout of heavy rain in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK), Pakistan.  Fact: The video in question is actually from September 2020 and shows a subway in New York flooded following Hurricane Ida.  […]

Read More
True False

Claim: A video shared on social media shows passengers escaping a mini bus as the vehicle is washed away by a flash flood following a recent bout of rain in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK). Fact: The incident did not occur as a result of the recent spell of heavy rains in KPK.  The video in question […]

Read More
True False

Claim: A video shared on social media shows a Pakistan International Airlines’ plane moving through a flooded runway at Jinnah International Airport in Karachi amid heavy monsoon rain.  Fact: The video in question is from 27 August 2020. The Civil Aviation Authority also confirmed the video is old and that there were no drainage issues […]

Read More
True False

Claim: A video shared on social media shows motorcycles slipping and toppling over on a flyover in Sanpada, Navi Mumbai due to the monsoon rain. Fact: The video was taken in Karachi, Pakistan, not Navi Mumbai, and shows motorcycles slipping and toppling over on Rashid Minhas road — near the Millenium Mall — following a […]

Read More
True False

Claim: Sindh Government used a bulldozer and a leaking dumper to dewater a flooded street during the Monsoon in Karachi. Fact: The video showing the ineffective dewatering activity is from Baghdad, Iraq. On August 30th, following the urban flooding in Karachi, a video of a bulldozer lifting water off a flooded street and pouring it […]

Read More
True False

Claim: Viral video shows Karachi residents catching a crocodile that escaped Manghopir Shrine due to urban flooding. Fact: This video is from August 2019, and was filmed in Vadodara, India A video clip that shows a crocodile being caught in flooded streets was posted to Facebook and shared on WhatsApp after heavy monsoon rainfall caused […]

Read More
True False

Claim: Pakistan people’s party Senator Saeed Ghani tweeted a video that claimed TV news headlines lied about the extent of monsoon flooding in Karachi by using old footage in order to defame the Sindh Government. Fact: The video shared by the senator is doctored. Old footage has been edited on top of a recent newsreel […]

Read More