A clip of a fatal shooting has been viewed hundreds of times on Facebook and Twitter alongside a claim that it happened in the US city of San Gabriel. The claim is false; this video has circulated in media reports about a fatal shooting in Brazil in
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Liste→ This image has circulated in reports since 2018 about Sri Lanka’s former prime minister opening a restored Buddhist temple
A photo showing former Sri Lankan prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe pouring water into a pond has been shared multiple times in Facebook posts that claim it shows him performing a ritual for re-election in 2020. The posts circulated online after
Liste→ This video has circulated in reports about Indonesian residents rejecting an Islamist group in 2017
A video has been viewed millions of times in multiple posts on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and TikTok, alongside a claim that it shows an Islamist group, the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), being expelled from the Indonesian city of Semarang. The video w
Liste→ This photo actually shows the Afghan capital of Kabul during winter
A photo of a snow-covered street has been shared hundreds of times in multiple posts on Facebook and Twitter in November 2020 that claim it was taken in the Pakistani city of Karachi. The claim is false; the photo was actually taken by an Afghan photog
Liste→ This graphic from a Philippine broadcaster has been doctored to include a false quote about President Duterte
A graphic has been shared hundreds of times in multiple Facebook posts purporting to show a genuine quote from a Philippine television personality published by a Philippine broadcaster. The alleged quote and the posts suggest the television personalit
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf Did NOT Issue This Document of Thanksgiving Rules
Did Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf finalize and issue on October 27, 2020, a list of 13 rules for Thanksgiving household visits? No, that's not true: The document offered in support of the claim is not an official state document. It is design
Top Fact Checks→ U.S. postal worker and vote ‘whistleblower’ recants his statement on ballot tampering.
Hopkins said that he did not recant his story but provided no evidence to support his claim. An investigation into the matter is currently ongoing.
Snopes→ How Do Pandemics End? History Suggests Diseases Fade But Are Almost Never Truly Gone
Experts tell us that even with a successful vaccine and effective treatment, COVID-19 may never go away.
Liste→ This photo has circulated in a news report about a raid on an Indian sweet shop that uncovered a rotten dessert
A photo has been shared in multiple Facebook and Twitter posts alongside a claim that it shows political party workers in the east Indian state of Bihar dumping Indian sweets after losing an election. The claim, however, is false; the photo has circul
Liste→ This video is a 2017 comedy sketch of an actor vandalising an Oval Office set
A video has been viewed thousands of times on YouTube and in other online posts alongside a claim it shows incumbent US President Donald Trump smashing the Oval Office after losing the US election in November 2020. The claim is false; the video shows a
Liste→ This video shows a simulation exercise by the Indonesian navy, not a real attempt to hijack a ferry
A video has been viewed thousands of times in multiple posts on Facebook and YouTube alongside a claim it shows Indonesian special forces detaining pirates who attempted to hijack a ferry off the Indonesian coast. The claim is false; the video actual
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Ex-CIA Agent Did NOT Confess On His Deathbed He Infected Bob Marley With Cancer
Did a former CIA agent confess on his deathbed that he infected reggae legend Bob Marley with cancer? No, that's not true: There is no record of a now-deceased CIA agent named Bill Oxley, beyond a story published in 2017 and later deleted
TruthOrFiction→ ‘More People Have Died of Suicide This Year Than Corona’
On November 24 2020, a post on Reddit-clone TheDonald.win asserted that in 2020, “more people died of suicide this year than corona,” embedding the following tweet: Part one. pic.twitter.com/q5sNVq21GE — Dr. Ben Tapper (@DrBenTapp
Liste→ This image of the Burj Khalifa has been doctored – the original does not show a projection of Indian cricketer Rohit Sharma
An image that appears to show a photo of Indian cricketer Rohit Sharma being projected on the Burj Khalifa skyscraper in Dubai has been shared hundreds of times in multiple Facebook and Instagram posts. The image, however, has been digitally manipulat
Snopes→ Why Trump’s Election Fraud Claims Aren’t Showing Up in His Lawsuits
There seems to be a real disconnect between the claims of widespread fraud, a stolen election and illegal voting made by President Donald Trump and his allies and the actual claims formally made by his lawyers in court.
Full Fact - All content→ This picture of a vaccine vial from March 2020 is real
We’ve been asked about and seen posts that question whether a news report showing a vial apparently for a vaccine dated 15 March 2020 is genuine. The report came from Sky, the footage showing the vial came to them on 23 April 2020. It shows a vac
Snopes→ Is Trump Selling Tickets to His 2021 Inauguration?
The Trump campaign has been raising money to fight the results of the 2020 election.
Snopes→ No, Photos of Evelyn Nesbit Do Not Represent ‘Wild West’ History
Across two centuries, photographs of former actress and model Evelyn Nesbit have been used by the advertising industry to bring in revenue.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: This Photo Does NOT A Show A Truly Gigantic Spider On A House
Is this a photo of a real gigantic spider? No, that's not true: While this is a photo of a real wolf spider, the house in the background was added and this changed the appearance of the spider's relative size, transforming it from a garde
Liste→ This video has circulated in reports about supermarket workers disposing of spoiled dairy products in Saudi Arabia
A video has been viewed and shared tens of thousands of times on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube alongside a claim that it shows Kuwaitis throwing away French products after boycott calls triggered a standoff between France and some Muslim countries over
Liste→ This video shows people shouting support for a local politician in the Indian state of Assam
A video of a crowd outside an airport in the Indian state of Assam has been viewed thousands of times in multiple Facebook posts alongside a claim it shows people shouting pro-Pakistan slogans at a local politician. The claim was widely amplified by
Liste→ This video shows a rescue operation in Guatemala, not the Philippines
A video of a flood rescue operation has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times in multiple Twitter and Facebook posts alongside a claim that it was filmed in the Philippines shortly after Typhoon Vamco hit the country. The claim is false; the video
Liste→ This video has circulated in reports since 2018 about a crowded railway station in West Bengal
A video that shows a huge crowd on a railway station platform has been viewed thousands of times in multiple posts on Facebook and Twitter that claim the scene was filmed in the Indian city of Kolkata in November 2020. The posts claim train passenge
Snopes→ Was This $300K Bathroom Voted Best in America?
With a price tag this high, Bancroft Park flushed away its competition.
Snopes→ Bodies of Man and His Slave Unearthed from Ashes at Pompeii
Skeletal remains of what are believed to have been a rich man and his male slave attempting to escape death from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago have been discovered in Pompeii.
Snopes→ Can You Blow Bubbles From This Tree’s Sap?
Bubblers beware: This tree sap can contain toxins harmful to the skin.
TFCN Feature – Poynter→ TFCN Fact-check: Was this wall installed at the White House on Election Day?
This week, MediaWise’s Teen Fact-Checking Network took on a claim about a suspicious barrier allegedly put up around the president’s house. The post TFCN Fact-check: Was this wall installed at the White House on Election Day? appeared first on Po
TFCN Feature – Poynter→ TFCN Fact-check: Was this wall installed at the White House on Election Day?
This week, MediaWise’s Teen Fact-Checking Network took on a claim about a suspicious barrier allegedly put up around the president’s house. The post TFCN Fact-check: Was this wall installed at the White House on Election Day? appeared first on Po
Full Fact - All content→ The number of deaths from flu and pneumonia is about what you would expect this year
A widely shared post on Facebook compares the number of deaths from diseases categorised as “flu & pneumonia” (which in practice means deaths from flu or pneumonia) in the first eight months of five different years. It shows that far fe
Full Fact - All content→ This post does not show photo of a giant eagle in Scotland
A Facebook post claims to show a giant eagle landing on grass in Scotland. The post has been shared thousands of times. However, this photo was not taken in Scotland. A local US news article from the beginning of 2020 claims that the photos of the siza
Liste→ This altered photo does not show the arrest of Ethiopia’s former head of intelligence
A photograph has been shared over a hundred times on Facebook with claims that it shows the arrest of Getachew Assefa, Ethiopia’s fugitive ex-intelligence chief and a leading member of the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF). This is false; t
Snopes→ Does This Alaska Town Go 60 Days Without Seeing the Sun?
The Alaska town Utqiagvik, formerly known as Barrow, has an interesting relationship to the sun.
Snopes→ Did George Clooney Give Each of His 14 Best Friends Suitcases Filled with $1 Million?
It pays to be close to the Hollywood actor.
Liste→ This footage of a bustling intersection comes from Vietnam, not Kenya
A video showing motorbikes and vehicles zipping across a busy intersection has been viewed thousands of times on Facebook with the claim that it depicts Kisii, a town in Kenya. The claim is false; the footage, which has been sped up, was actually filme
Liste→ This video shows a simulation of a robbery staged by Malaysian police for a public awareness campaign
A video has been shared hundreds of thousands of times on Facebook and YouTube alongside a claim that it shows a robbery outside a mall in Malaysia. The claim is false; the clip shows a simulation of a robbery that was staged by Malaysian police for a
Liste→ This video shows US officers recovering discarded Amazon packages, not trashed votes
A video claiming to show ballots from the US elections found dumped in bushes has been shared hundreds of times in Facebook posts. However, the video has nothing to do with the elections. The bags seen in the video were filled not with ballots but with
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: The Statistics On This Protest Sign Are NOT From ‘Last Year’ — They’re From Four Decades Ago
Are the numbers cited on this protest sign representative of gun deaths from last year? No, that's not true: This list of statistics is 40 years old. Although the numbers are old, the photo shows a protest in Los Angeles that likely took
TruthOrFiction→ ‘This Is a Line For a Food Bank in Dallas, Congress Has Decided to Leave Millions of Americans to Suffer and Die’
On November 18 2020, the Gravel Institute (@GravelInstitute) tweeted a photograph purportedly showing cars waiting to get to a food bank in Dallas, Texas: This is a line for a food bank in Dallas. Congress has decided to leave millions of Americans t
Snopes→ Does This 1860 Painting Depict a Time Traveler Holding an iPhone?
Even our team at Snopes can’t prove if people have gone back in time.
Liste→ This video shows fliers sent out to Republicans in Pennsylvania with applications for mail-in ballots
A video has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times in multiple posts on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube which claim it shows shredded Trump ballots in the US state of Pennsylvania. The claim is false; the clip actually shows fliers sent out by Republ