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Claim: Salman Akram Raja tweeted hate speech about the Ahmedi community, calling them infidels.  Fact: The tweet was posted by a fake account impersonating Salman Akram Raja. Raja has clarified that he did not share a hateful message against the Ahmedi community.  On 21 February 2024, an account claiming to be lawyer and PTI leader […]

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Claim: Cricket Victoria has contacted Babar Azam and offered him to play Sheffield Shield and Big Bash from Melbourne Renegades or Melbourne Stars. Fact: Cricket Victoria has not made any such offers. Their CEO Nick Cummins publicly denied the claim on his official X account.  On 10 January 2024, social media users on X and […]

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Claim: A Palestinian ‘crisis actor’ has pretended to be a freedom fighter, blood donor, foster father, a resilient patient, a revived corpse, a war correspondent, a contestant in American Idol, a radiology technician and a tour guide. Fact: The man in the images is Saleh Aljafarawi, a Palestinian social media influencer and blogger who lives […]

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Claim: An Israeli writer and government advisor claimed a hospitalised Palestinian man is acting and faking his injuries as he was exposed after he posted a video of himself  appearing perfectly healthy a few days later Fact: The claim links  two unrelated videos,  filmed at different times and places. Most importantly, the hospitalised man in […]

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Claim: The Pakistani government has asked all banks to stop accepting donations for Palestine. A leaked internal memo from Bank Alfalah is being used to claim that the bank does not accept donations for the account of the Palestinian government.  Fact: The Pakistani government has not asked banks to stop accepting donations for Palestine. Donations […]

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