Claim: A video shows Yemen’s army attacking Israel. Fact: Though military tensions have recently escalated between Israel and the Houthis, the video in the claim is unrelated. A close analysis of its visuals and past patterns of misinformation suggest that the video is most likely from the videogame Arma 3. On 16 March […]
Claim: Pakistani retail chain Imtiaz has said it would continue selling products from Israel, indicating its refusal to boycott products from or linked to the Middle Eastern nation. Fact: Imtiaz has denied making such an announcement, saying the viral claim is “false/fabricated”. It has also expressed “its strong support for the people of Gaza & […]
Claim: Cola Next is a product of Coca-Cola. Fact: The claim is false. Cola Next is a Pakistani brand owned by Mezan Group, and not Coca-Cola. Currently, it is not listed on the BDS boycott list. The claim likely surfaced due to a glitch in the No Thanks app and the similarity between the names […]
Claim: A picture of multiple shrouded dead bodies in an ambulance shows PTI protesters killed by Pakistani authorities during the November 2024 unrest. Fact: The photo has no connection to the PTI’s protest; it is, in fact, from Palestine and surfaced as early as 1 November 2024, over three weeks before the Islamabad demonstration. On […]
Claim: An image of a wounded girl has surfaced on social media, who was injured during the recent violence in Parachinar. Fact: Although the violence in Kurram, which began on 21 November 2024, has reportedly since claimed over 80 lives, including those of women and children, and left more than a 100 injured, the viral […]
Claim: Yahya Sinwar’s wife was seen carrying a $32,000 Birkin bag while walking in a tunnel. Fact: Samr Mohammed Abu Zamer, wife of the late Yahya Sinwar, was not carrying a Birkin bag. Soch Fact Check’s analysis revealed that the bag in the image circulating on social media does not match the Hermès Birkin bag. […]
Claim: A video shows Israeli soldiers running away after Iran’s attack on Israel. Fact: The video actually shows Israeli soldiers running and screaming during a rocket attack launched by the Palestinian resistance from Gaza during the Seif al-Quds battle in May 2021. Following Iran’s attack on Israel, X account @RTarabic shared a video of Israeli […]
Claim: Herzi Halevi, Chief of the General Staff of Israel Defence Forces (IDF), was killed in a drone attack by Hezbollah on 13 October. Fact: Herzi Halevi was not killed in a drone attack and has since appeared in a press conference. On 13 October, social media users began sharing posts claiming that the Israeli […]
Claim: An old image of a young man carrying a gun has been circulating online, with claims that it shows the Secretary General of Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, in various contexts. Fact: The person in the photograph was an Islamic Resistance fighter Ali Muhammad Salman (Abu Abbas), who was killed in 1989 in the Tuffah […]
Claim: Yemen dropped leaflets in Tel Aviv, asking citizens to evacuate before the drone strike on 19 July. Additionally, Yemen shared digital posters of the same, as a warning for the residents of Tel Aviv. Fact: The leaflets, likely made by Palestinians, mock the ones dropped by Israeli forces in Gaza. The leaflets were not […]
Claim: Google has removed Palestine from its Google Maps application amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. Fact: The claim is false as Palestine was never labelled on Google Maps. The application’s map only included the Gaza Strip and West Bank, with a dotted grey line indicating their borders. On 14 June 2024, Threads user @raja_official3248 posted […]
Claim: An image shows a Palestinian boy sleeping next to his parents’ graves amid Israel’s ongoing war in Gaza. Fact: The image is unrelated to Palestine; it was shot as a conceptual project by Abdul Aziz Alotaibi, a photographer from Saudi Arabia, who posted it on his social media on 3 January 2014. The boy […]