An image has been shared in multiple posts on Facebook and Twitter alongside claims it shows an anti-coup protest in Yangon, Myanmar's largest city. The image, however, has been altered; although there have been huge crowds at protests against the
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Liste→ Photo of Buddhist monks protesting in Yangon in 2007 shared in misleading posts after 2021 military coup
A photo of Buddhist monks protesting in a street has been shared hundreds of times in multiple social media posts about demonstrations against the Myanmar military’s coup in February 2021. The photo, however, has been shared in a misleading context
Liste→ The image has been doctored to add a woman into a photo of a tank patrolling in Yangon
An image purportedly showing a woman with a sword confronting a tank in Myanmar has been shared on Facebook and Twitter as the junta intensifies a crackdown on anti-coup protesters. However, the image has been doctored from a photo of military vehic
Liste→ These photos of police on a building in Yangon were not taken during protests in 2021
As tens of thousands of people protested on the streets of Myanmar following a military coup, two photos circulated on Facebook and Twitter purporting to show police snipers aiming their weapons from a rooftop bar in the country's largest city,
Liste→ Social media users share 2007 video alongside misleading claim about Myanmar military coup in 2021
A video has been viewed tens of thousands of times in multiple Facebook posts alongside a claim it shows a violent military crackdown on protesting monks in Myanmar. The posts circulated online shortly after Myanmar's military seized power in a bloodle
Liste→ These photos have circulated in reports since 2019 about a Myanmar minister marking Prophet Mohammed’s birthday
Two photos have been shared hundreds of times in multiple Facebook and Twitter posts which claim it shows Myanmar’s Religious Affairs Minister attending a large gathering to mark the Prophet Mohammed’s birthday in Yangon, flouting social distancing
Liste→ Hoax circulates online that Aung San Suu Kyi plagiarised a historic Russian poem
Facebook posts claim that a hand-written poem by Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi, which fetched $180,000 USD at auction in Yangon early September, was plagiarised from a poem by Vladimir Mayakovsky. The claim is false: Russian literature exp