Claim: A bird that can breathe fire or shoot fire from its eyes caused the Los Angeles wildfires, according to a video. Fact: No such fire-breathing bird exists. The accompanying video is actually the work of a VFX artist who created the clip back in 2020 using CGI and compositing technique. On 23 January 2025, […]
Claim: A video shows the first stage of the January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires, in which “fire [started] falling from the sky” when a celestial object was struck by unidentified objects and erupted into flames. Fact: The video is not only unrelated to the Los Angeles wildfires but was digitally created and originally posted back […]
Claim: An image shows men praying while standing in water up to their chests as Bangladesh experienced floods in August 2024. Fact: The image is from 2021 and, therefore, unrelated to the 2024 floods in Bangladesh. Taken by photographer Sharwar Hussain Apo, it was aimed at highlighting the impact of climate change. On 24 August […]
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 […]
Claim: A video on social media apparently shows a storm due to Cyclone Biparjoy striking India and Pakistan. Fact: The claim is false as the video is from Egypt and actually shows a sandstorm at the Suez Canal. Cyclone Biparjoy was churning across the northeastern Arabian Sea and hit western India on 15 June 2023. […]
Claim: A video of waves of water crashing onto a bridge apparently shows Cyclone Biparjoy damaging in Gujrat, India. Fact: The video is actually from 2017, not from 2023 when Cyclone Biparjoy is nearing India and Pakistan. Cyclone Biparjoy has been churning across the northeastern Arabian Sea, heading toward southern Pakistan and western India since […]
Claim: A video claims to show Cyclone Biparjoy making landfall in Gujarat, India. Fact: The video is old. In fact, it shows huge waves crashing on the coast of San Sebastian in Spain. Fact or Fiction? On 12 June 2023, PakWeather.com (@Pak_Weather) tweeted a video claiming that it shows Cyclone Biparjoy passing by the coast […]
Claim: A picture shows a child walking in neck-high water while carrying a dog in a steel bowl during the floods in Pakistan. Fact: The image is, in fact, from the Phung Hiep market in Vị Thanh in the Hậu Giang province of Vietnam. It was taken by Nguyen Thanh Ly on 28 November 2009. […]
Claim: A screenshot appears to show that Dawn published a news story on its website titled, “Flood in Pakistan is not due to Climate Change, but because people are not reading Quran.” Fact: The screenshot in question is doctored. Dawn did not publish any such news story. On 28 August 2022, Twitter user @Sidha_memer tweeted […]
Claim: A viral video on social media shows a small child being rescued in the aftermath of recent floods in Pakistan. Fact: The claim is misleading as the video is from 2020, not from recent floods. On 25 August 2022, journalist Hamid Mir posted a video with an Urdu caption that, when translated to English, […]
Claim: A cloudburst time lapse is being shared on social media with the claim that it is from Jamshoro during the torrential monsoon of 2022. Fact: The video is from Perth, Australia and was shot in February 2020. Fact or Fiction? On 19 August, 2022 Senator and Federal Minister on Climate Change, Sherry Rahman shared […]
Claim: A Facebook post claims that a video shows the River Chenab in Punjab, Pakistan after India released flood water. Fact: The claim is false. The video is not from Pakistan but is actually from Iran when flash floods in January 2020 caused massive damage. On 1 August 2022, a Facebook page shared a video […]