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After Iran launched a barrage of missiles at Israel on October 1, 2024, footage of fireworks exploding in Algeria was viewed thousands of times in posts claiming it showed the attack on…
Following an outbreak of ethnic violence in eastern Bangladesh in September, a video has been viewed millions of times in social media posts that falsely claimed it shows minority women…
Screenshot of the false Facebook post, taken October 15, 2024 The post was shared after Philippine officials said Saudi Arabia executed a Filipino worker despite Manila's appeals (archived…
4 min read Last Updated : Oct 10 2024 | 3:05 PM IST Bangladesh cricket great Shakib Al Hasan has tendered an unconditional apology for his "silence" during the recent civil unrest against…
Screenshot of the false Facebook post, taken October 7, 2024 It circulated online after a devastating fire on a Thai school bus killed at least 23 people, police said (archived link). The…
Screenshot of the false post taken on September 29, 2024 The clip was shared with similar claims elsewhere on X and Facebook. Five years after the government of Prime Minister Narendra…
A photo of a boat flying the flags of Iran and its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has been altered and shared on Burmese social media with a false claim it shows a boat used by the…
2 min read Last Updated : Oct 04 2024 | 4:37 PM IST Meta Platforms must restrict the use of personal data harvested from Facebook for targeted advertising, Europe's top court ruled on…
Footage of two unrelated events in Algeria and Indonesia has been viewed thousands of times alongside a false claim it shows the aftermath of a Hezbollah attack on Israel. The clips --…
[Source] A Turkish man proved that love knows no bounds after traveling thousands of miles to meet his girlfriend in Indonesia. Mehmed Ozcan, who goes by Ahmed, flew from Turkey and…
Screenshot of the image posted in the "Lightroom Editing" Facebook group, taken on September 24, 2024 Senevirathne, who regularly uploads AI-generated content and describes himself as a…
Screenshot of the false post, taken on September 19, 2024 “Register immediately to receive the gift. It is offered for the low-income section of society and the elderly,” the caption…
Screenshot of the false post, captured on September 19 The same altered image was shared alongside a similar claim on Facebook here, here and here. Comments indicated some users appeared…
As devastating floods hit Thailand in August 2024, old photos made the rounds in Facebook posts that misleadingly linked them to the disaster. While one of the pictures genuinely showed…
Screenshot of the false Facebook post, captured on September 16, 2024 It surfaced as thousands of Khan's supporters gathered in the Sangjani area of Islamabad in support of the former…
Thousands of supporters of Pakistan's former leader Imran Khan defied roadblocks to gather in a suburb of the capital Islamabad in September 2024, however, a video circulating on social…
Screenshot taken on September 3, 2024 of the false post The junta's brutal crackdown on anti-coup protesters has forced thousands of youth into newly formed "People's Defence Forces" in…
Screenshot of the misleading claim shared on Facebook, captured September 2 The image made the rounds in pro-Han Facebook groups here, here and here as Han and Lee met for the first time…
Screenshot of the false Facebook post, taken August 27, 2024 Similar Facebook posts linked the photos to the floods in northern Thailand here, here and here. However, the house in the…
Malaysia is not restarting an e-wallet subsidy scheme that concluded in February 2024, the country's finance ministry told AFP. It said graphics circulating on social media -- which…
Screenshot of the false Facebook post, taken August 21, 2024 The post racked up more than 680 shares. Other Facebook pages such as here, here and here also shared the photos with the same…
Screenshot of the post with the altered clip, taken on July 30, 2024 The post contains a 10-second video with the logo of News18, an Indian subsidiary of the international news channel…
Screenshot of the false Facebook post, captured on July 19, 2024 The clip's Hindi-language caption read: "Modi Ji took blessings from one of the two Shankaracharyas at Ambani's wedding by…
Dangerous wildfires forced a town and a major national park in Canada’s Alberta province to evacuate overnight Monday. Evacuation orders were issued around 10 p.m. for “everyone” in Jasper…
