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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Failed Chinese Airstrike — It’s Video Game Footage
Does this video show a failed Chinese airstrike near Taiwan, with planes crashing after they are fired upon? No, that's not true: This footage is from the video game Arma 3. The footage is not real. The claim appeared in a Facebook post (
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Footage of aircraft firing missiles is from a video game, not Chinese airstrike
A video clip shows a failed attempt by China to launch airstrikes near Taiwan.
Snopes→ Did Wikileaks Release Faked Moon Landing Footage?
It's been more than 50 years since we first landed on the moon.
PolitiFact→ Viral image – Old footage of Romanian protest mischaracterized as COVID-19 demonstration
A video shows people in Romania protesting COVID-19 vaccines.
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘Robin Test Footage’
On October 12 and 13 2021, a video titled “Robin Test Footage” spread across social media, often described as a scene from an in-the-works biopic: ROBIN Test Footage Scene from videos A top comment thread on the pos
Truth or Fiction?→ New Footage of Capitol Riots Released in September 2021
“New footage” of the events of January 6 2021 began circulating on September 22 2021, appearing alongside a predictable set of claims about the “meaning” of the video: Whatever this is, it is not anything close to a coup or in
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: This Video Is NOT Footage of Taliban With Anti-Aircraft Weapons — It’s A Video Game
Does footage released after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan show the insurgents using anti-aircraft weaponry? No, that's not true: The footage is from the video game Arma 3. The claim appeared in a Facebook post (archived here) publis
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Footage Of Helicopter Does NOT Show Suspended Corpse Of Hanged Person
Did the Taliban use a U.S. Blackhawk helicopter to hang a person and then fly over the city of Kandahar with their body suspended by a rope? No, that's not true: This blurry footage shows a helicopter flying with a living person suspended
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Twitter Video Does NOT Show Footage Of August 26, 2021 Bombing Outside Of Kabul Airport
Does a video posted on Twitter show footage of a suicide bombing outside the Kabul airport in Afghanistan that killed more than 170 people including 13 U.S. service members? No, that's not true: The footage is from an Israeli airstrike th
Logically→ Video footage showing England’s Chief Medical Advisor Professor Chris Whitty being harassed was staged.
There is no evidence to suggest that video footage of two members of the public manhandling Whitty is fake.
Logically→ U.S. politicians are refusing to release footage of the Capitol riots.
Several U.S. politicians have spoken to credible media outlets about the riots, and its footage was also released.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: This Video Is NOT Footage Of Israeli Defense System
Is a video showing helicopters being taken down by rapid missile fire actually footage of the Israeli defense system at work? No, that's not true: The video is taken from the video game ARMA 3, a tactical shooter video game developed by B
AFP Fact Check→ This is video game footage — it does not show rebels shooting down Myanmar military aircraft
A video has been viewed more than a hundred thousand times on Facebook alongside a claim it shows a prominent rebel group in eastern Myanmar shooting down military aircraft in March 2021. The claim is false: the clip, which has circulated online sinc
AFP Fact Check→ Footage of rain pouring through leaking hospital roof was filmed in Ghana, not Kenya
Facebook posts with a video viewed thousands of times claim to show a flooded hospital in Kenya. The 30-second clip features a profusely leaking roof inside a patient’s room. However, the claim is false: AFP Fact Check found the footage was filmed i
AFP Fact Check→ This footage shows a tourist killed by an elephant in Thailand
Footage of a man being grabbed and thrown to the ground by an elephant has been shared in multiple Facebook posts, which claim it shows a tourist being attacked in provincial Sri Lanka. The claim is false: the video actually shows an elephant attack
Snopes→ Did ‘Real Footage From 1895’ Appear in a TikTok Video?
Auguste and Louis Lumière were two French brothers who captured a number of films in the earliest days of motion pictures.
AFP Fact Check→ Footage of blaze shows training institute in Ghana, not legislature in Nigeria
Footage of a white building engulfed with flames has been circulated in social media posts claiming to show an inferno at the legislature in Nigeria’s southeastern city of Owerri in Imo state. However, this is false; the video clip predates the claim
AFP Fact Check→ Footage of sheep intestines in Turkish dish falsely presented as a soup of human penises in China
Nigerian separatists are sharing two videos on social media claiming that the footage shows Chinese restaurants serving human penises. The claims come a week after AFP Fact Check debunked a satirical story presented as fact on social media that thousa
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Security Footage Does NOT Show Nurse Saving A Woman From An Abusive Boyfriend– It’s Staged
Did a nurse save a woman from an abusive boyfriend when the woman secretly passed her a message asking for help? No, that's not true: This scene, designed to look as if it was captured by a security camera, is a staged production using ac
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Mini Tsunamis Did NOT Recently Hit The Resort Region Of Spain- This Is Old Footage Of Storm Gloria
Did mini tsunamis recently hit the resort regions of Spain? No, that's not true on several points. The foreboding clickbait captioning on this video implies that this footage is from an event that just happened -- but it's over a year old
AFP Fact Check→ Footage of destroyed military plane includes old clip of Syrian helicopter exploding over Damascus
Terrorist group Boko Haram has released a video that includes footage of a mid-air explosion, claiming it shows a Nigerian Air Force jet shot down by insurgents in Borno state. This is false; the exploding aircraft seen in the beginning of the video wa
Poynter→ Did ’60 Minutes’ selectively edit footage of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis?
Did “60 Minutes” selectively edit video footage of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to portray the state’s coronavirus vaccine in a negative light? That’s what DeSantis and some of his supporters are saying. The report by “60 Minutes
AFP Fact Check→ Footage from Israeli coronavirus vaccination clinic circulates alongside false claim about a vaccine-related death
A video has been shared in multiple Facebook posts alongside a claim that it shows a person who died “within 15 minutes” of receiving a Covid-19 vaccine. The claim, however, is false: the footage in fact shows a man who collapsed from an unrelated
AFP Fact Check→ Footage shows cemetery swept away by floods in Tajikistan
A video of a muddy graveyard has been shared thousands of times on Facebook alongside the claim that it shows exposed and empty burial plots in a Thailand cemetery. This, according to the claim, is evidence of what Christians refer to as the rapture, a
AFP Fact Check→ This footage circulated before the Covid-19 pandemic in reports about students fleeing tear gas at a school in Nigeria
Footage of students fleeing a building has been shared in multiple Facebook posts alongside a claim that it shows children running from a school where “live virus” Covid-19 vaccines were being forcibly administered to black kids. The claim, however
AFP Fact Check→ Old footage of Trump arriving in Switzerland shared in false posts about his first visit to New York since leaving office
A video has been viewed hundreds of thousands times in multiple Facebook, Twitter and YouTube posts in March 2021 that claim it shows former US President Donald Trump landing in New York for the first time since leaving the White House. The posts also
AFP Fact Check→ The footage is from a Bastille Day parade in France in 2017
A Facebook live stream broadcast on March 10, 2021 purports to show former US president Donald Trump arriving at a parade. The claim is misleading; the footage in fact shows a 2017 Bastille Day parade in Paris, France, where Trump had been invited as a
AFP Fact Check→ Old footage of Trump arriving in Davos shared in false posts about ‘surprise visit’ in 2021
A video has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times in multiple posts on Facebook, YouTube and TikTok alongside a claim it shows a "surprise visit" by former US President Donald Trump to Switzerland in March 2021. The claim is false: the footage
AFP Fact Check→ Social media posts falsely claim footage shows Trump delivering supplies to Texas after storm
After a major winter storm hit the US state of Texas in February 2021, a video was shared repeatedly in Facebook and Twitter posts alongside a claim it shows former US President Donald Trump delivering supplies to desperate Texans. The claim is false:
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: 360-Degree Panorama of Mars ‘With Sound’ Is NOT 2021 Footage From Perseverance Rover
Is this a video "with sound" of the Martian landscape beamed, back to Earth from the Perseverance rover? No, that assumption would be wrong. This video does show the landscape of Mars, and the scenery was captured by a rover, but the scen
AFP Fact Check→ Posts falsely purport to show ‘precious footage’ of Chairman Mao Zedong
A video has been shared thousands of times in posts on Twitter and Chinese video-sharing platform Bilibili purporting to show “precious historical footage” of former Chinese leader Mao Zedong exercising outdoors. The claim is false: the video in fa
AFP Fact Check→ Indian anti-citizenship law protest footage recirculates online in false posts about farmers’ protests
A video of a crowd chanting has been viewed thousands of times in multiple posts on Facebook in 2021 alongside a claim it shows people urging Delhi police to beat Indian farmers protesting against new agricultural laws. The claim is false: the foota
AFP Fact Check→ Footage of Trump speaking to US troops in 2017 circulated in false posts days before President Biden’s inauguration
Footage of former US President Donald Trump has been viewed tens of thousands of times across social media platforms alongside a claim it shows him giving a defiant televised speech on January 18, 2021, two days before President Joe Biden's inauguratio
AFP Fact Check→ Footage of movie props and flu shot clips used to falsely claim world leaders’ Covid-19 vaccines were ‘staged’
A video has been viewed thousands of times in Facebook, Twitter and YouTube posts that claim it shows a man explaining how retractable syringes are used to stage the Covid-19 vaccinations of world leaders. The claim is false: the footage of a retra
AFP Fact Check→ This footage shows a tsunami that hit Japan in 2011, not a flood in Pakistan in 2020
A video that shows cars being washed away by floodwaters has been shared repeatedly in multiple Facebook posts which claim it shows adverse weather in Pakistan on December 2, 2020. The claim is false; the footage shows a tsunami that hit Japan in 201
AFP Fact Check→ Old footage of atheist invocation does not show the new American government praying to Satan
Footage of a man delivering an atheist invocation to various gods has been shared thousands of times on Facebook claiming to show the new American government praying to Satan. This is misleading; AFP Fact Check traced the video to 2014, long before US
AFP Fact Check→ Old footage of atheist invocation does not show the new American government praying to Satan
Footage of a man delivering an atheist invocation to various gods has been shared thousands of times on Facebook claiming to show the new American government praying to Satan. This is misleading; AFP Fact Check traced the video to 2014, long before US
AFP Fact Check→ The footage actually shows the wedding of a Taiwanese YouTube star and his boyfriend
A video has been viewed thousands of times in multiple posts on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube which claim it shows the grandson of Singapore’s revered founding Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew getting married to his boyfriend in South Africa. The claim is
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Footage IS Recorded At All Ballot Drop Locations In Georgia And Recordings CAN Be Requested
Is video recorded of all ballot drop-off locations in Georgia, and is the video available to the public upon request? Yes, that's true: Continuous or motion-sensor footage is recorded of all ballot drop-off locations in Georgia. Any membe