CLAIM: Facebook page, ZSN News, claimed Prime Minister Imran Khan announced March 1 onwards, Friday and Saturday would be full holidays, and Sunday would be a working day. FACT: Although the image was made to look like a TV News screenshot, it was created by the Facebook page admin. No such change has been planned, […]
Claim: A video circulating on Twitter shows the US air strike that killed Iranian general, Qassem Soleimani. Fact: The clip in question is a distorted preview of the video game, AC-130 Gunship Simulator – Convoy Engagement. Verdict: False. Iran’s powerful general, Qassem Soleimani, was assassinated in an American air strike in Baghdad on January 3. […]
CLAIM: Deceased Pashtun poet and academic Arman Loni was an Afghan immigrant. FACT: Although Pashtuns can be referred to as ethnically ‘Afghan’, Arman Loni was born in Pakistan and is therefore not an immigrant. VERDICT: False The Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) was once again trending on Twitter on Sunday, January 12, after the Pashtun Long March […]
Claim: Twitter user Tarek Fatah tweeted a video and claimed it depicted a woman yelling at a polio worker and refusing to give her children polio drops. Fact: The video is actually a clip from the movie Load Wedding. On 15 January 2020, Canadian Pakistani journalist Tarek Fatah, shared a video showing a woman standing […]
Claim: 183 arsonists were charged for starting bushfires in Australia, bushfires are primarily caused by people. Fact: Only 24 people were charged for deliberately starting bushfires, which is fewer than in previous years. Bushfires in Australia are becoming more common due to climate change. Verdict: False New South Wales (NSW – an Eastern state of […]
Claim: A video is being circulated on Twitter and Facebook, allegedly depicting two Muslim men beating an elderly Hindu woman and forcefully taking a young girl away.Fact: The video was actually taken in Kalu Khan Ki Dhani village in Rajasthan, India on 11 September 2017. Verdict: False A video showing two men beating an elderly […]
Photos and videos from Libya are being erroneously shared as videos from on-the-ground in Iraq Claim: A video allegedly depicting the 7th January Iranian airstrike on a US Airbase in Iraq was circulated on WhatsApp to make the attack appear deadlier than it actually was.Fact: The image and video were older than the Iranian airstrike. […]