Claim: A video shows vehicles bumping over a pothole-ridden road in Karachi. Fact: The video is not from Karachi or even Pakistan. The Mandarin text visible on the vehicles in the footage suggests that it was likely filmed in China. X user @AmirHQureshi shared a video (archive) showing cars, buses, and trucks speeding over potholes, […]
Claim: A video shows an elderly woman being dragged and attacked by stray dogs on a street in Karachi. Fact: The video is from Jalandhar, India. A Threads user shared a video (archive) writing, “محترم جناب مرتضی وہاب صاحب تک یہ ویڈیو پہنچائی ہے کراچی کے حالات۔” [Translation: The video has been forwarded to Mr […]
Claim: A video on X shows the District Municipal Corporation (DMC) administrator and his team falling into Karachi’s Gujjar Nullah while cleaning the area. Fact: The claim is false as the video is not from Karachi but from India and shows the then Mayor of Panaji Surendra Furtado, along with others, as their boat capsized […]
Claim: COVID-19 can only be transmitted through people who are showing symptoms. Fact: Those who contract the virus can also infect others while showing no symptoms themselves. On March 1st, the US Secretary of Health and Human Services, Alex Azer said on ABC News that asymptomatic spread is not a major driver of the novel […]