Was Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the first time 100,000 troops had invaded another country since World War II? No, that's not true: There are many examples of military forces totaling more than 100,000 inv
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FactCheck.org→ Trump’s False Claim About Defense ‘Deal’ with South Korea
Former President Donald Trump, who has regularly complained about the amount of money South Korea pays the U.S. to maintain American military bases there, falsely claimed this week that he “had a deal [with South Korea] for full payment to us, $
Logically→ The 1915 Çanakkale Bridge, built by a Chinese firm, withstood the February 6 earthquake in Turkey.
The 1915 Çanakkale bridge was constructed by two South Korean firms and is more than 1,200 km from the earthquake's epicenter.
FactCheck.org→ Gen. Milley Has Long Combat History, Contrary to Social Media Posts
Quick Take Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is the nation’s highest-ranking military officer. But posts on social media falsely claimed Milley “never served in combat.” Milley has an “extensive backgroun
The Dispatch→ Fact Check: Are ‘White Women’ the Greatest Threat to World Peace?
A digitally altered image based on a Fox News graphic. A screenshot of a Fox News graphic circulating online has been digitally altered. The image purports to show a poll conducted in Germany by data analytics firm YouGov that asked respondents for the
The Dispatch→ Will South Korea Go Nuclear?
President Biden and South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol. (Photo by Kim Min-Hee - Pool/Getty Images)As Pyongyang grows its nuclear arsenal, Seoul considers its atomic options.The post Will South Korea Go Nuclear? appeared first on The Dispatch.
Lead Stories→ Lead Stories Uncovers Network of Cambodian Websites Pushing Death Hoaxes On Facebook To Spread Malware
The celebrity death hoax has long been a clickbait staple, but recently one network has taken it to extremes, using scores of websites to host its content and an automated army of bots to push the links into Facebook groups. Many Facebook
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: "Deathbed Confession" Video Does NOT Prove Moon Landing A Hoax
Does a viral video describing a father's "deathbed confession" prove the U.S. government faked the 1969 moon landing? No, that's not true: There is a significant amount of evidence that NASA landed on the moon and experts Lead Stories spo
Snopes→ Nearly 300 Demand South Korea Probe Their Adoptions Abroad
Louise Kwang felt her entire sense of identity collapse in 2016 when her South Korean agency matter-of-factly acknowledged that her origin story was fiction aimed at ensuring her adoptability.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: This Video Does NOT Show North Korea Sending Troops To Ukraine
Is North Korea sending troops to Ukraine to help the Kremlin's war efforts? No, that's not true: At the time of writing, Moscow appeared to be considering the idea of North Korean workers, not soldiers, working on reconstruction in Ukrain
Full Fact→ BBC didn’t replace boos for Boris Johnson with ‘generic audio’
A post on Facebook, viewed more than 73,000 times, claims that the BBC edited footage of Boris and Carrie Johnson arriving at St Paul’s Cathedral for part of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations to replace the sound of booing crowds wi
AllSides→ North Korea: The mystery of its Covid outbreak
https://www.bbc.com/news/61651016 It's been three weeks since North Korea announced its first ever Covi
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show ‘Most Horrible Emergency Landing Ever’ — It’s Computer-Generated Video Game Footage
Does this video accurately show airplanes in situations that depict the "most horrible emergency landing ever"? No, that's not true: This footage is not real. It is a computer-generated video that is from a flight-simulator game, one of n
FactCheck.org→ FactChecking Claims About the Conflict in Ukraine
Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, following months of military buildup and, as we’ve written, repeated denials by Russian officials that their country planned to invade. As is often the case with major news events, we h
FactCheck.org→ Old, Mislabeled Video Circulating Amid Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
Quick Take A video from 2019 showing Russian President Vladimir Putin meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has been circulating recently with the false claim that it shows Putin meeting with the South Korean president. Full Story Russian Presi
Truth or Fiction?→ Putin ‘Stripped of Black Belt’
On March 2 2022, two Imgur posts claimed Russia’s president Vladimir Putin was “stripped of his black belt”; one of the two posts was an Instagram screenshot, the other depicting a February 28 2022 post on Reddit’s r/worldnews:
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Combat And Training Footage Does NOT Show Ukraine In 2022
Does this video show live or footage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February of 2022? No, that's not true: This footage was originally posted on YouTube at least as early as October 2021. The video was flipped to make it harder to
Health Feedback→ Majority of ten countries listed in viral chain message haven’t dropped all COVID-19 restriction measures and aren’t considering COVID-19 as a seasonal flu, despite claims
REVIEW On 2 February 2022, a screenshot was shared on Facebook of a Telegram message from Christiane Northrup who claimed that ten countries had “announced the cancellation of all quarantine procedures, Corona tests, and compulsory vaccination”
FactCheck.org→ Biden’s Numbers
Summary A year ago, Joseph R. Biden took office as the 46th president of the United States — inheriting an economy weakened by the COVID-19 pandemic, but with effective vaccines to finally deal with it. To mark Biden’s first year in office, we ta
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘One of the Reasons I Drive Right Past Home Depot and Straight to Lowe’s …’
In January 2022, a June 2020 Facebook post purportedly comparing Lowe’s and Home Depot’s chief executive officers continued spreading: One of the reasons I drive right past Home Depot and straight to Lowe’s is because while the co-founder
Truth or Fiction?→ Kenosha Homicide Trial Riddled With Disinformation, Weaponized Narratives
The trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenager who killed two people and wounded a third during a shooting spree in Kenosha, Wisconsin during protests against police brutality in August 2020, has made daily headlines nationally and internationally —
Truth or Fiction?→ Are Japan’s Olympic Medals Made From Recycled Electronics?
On August 6 2021, an Imgur account shared the following image, which purportedly showed Japan’s 2021 Olympic medals, fashioned from recycled laptops and phones: Titled “Congrats on winning, here is some e-waste,” text above an image
Snopes→ Kim’s Sister Warns South Korea-U.S. Drills Will Rekindle Tensions
“For some days I have been hearing an unpleasant story that joint military exercises between the South Korean army and the U.S. forces could go ahead as scheduled,” Kim Yo Jong said.
Truth or Fiction?→ Wi Spa Weaponized Disinformation Campaign
In late June and early July 2021, far-right activists attempted to launch a new disinformation campaign in the wake of a viral video of a woman harassing staff at a traditional public bathhouse in an historic Los Angeles neighborhood The video, which w
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: 2019 ‘Median U.S. Household Income’ Data In Chart Does NOT Show Official Numbers Of Household Income By Race, But The Data Is From The U.S. Census Bureau
Did this "Median U.S. Household Income" chart for 2019 show the estimated amounts earned by race and ethnic group, and was the data in this chart recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau? Yes, but it's lacking context. The chart is from the gov
Snopes→ Dot Watch Could Be the First Braille Smartwatch
A South Korean startup launched the smartwatch in 2017.
AFP Fact Check→ Posts mislead on South Korea’s failed campaign to make subway users ride escalators sideways
Several photos have circulated in Korean-language social media posts in May 2021 alongside a claim they show a new campaign from a local South Korea police force encouraging subway users to ride the escalators sideways. The posts claim the policy has r
AFP Fact Check→ Misleading claim circulates online about South Korea’s quarantine lunch boxes
A photo has circulated online in Korean-language posts alongside a claim it shows a lunch box with a South Korean presidential seal given to Chinese students in quarantine. The claim is misleading: the lunch box in the photo was given to a South Kor
AFP Fact Check→ Misleading claim circulates online about rules for visitors to South Korea’s national cemetery
Multiple Korean-language posts claim a new rule has banned visitors from singing the national anthem and hoisting the country's flag at South Korea’s cemetery for war veterans. The posts circulated online in May 2021 after anti-government proteste
AFP Fact Check→ Hoax posts sharing ‘tip’ for phone bill discount in South Korea resurface online
Korean-language Facebook posts circulating in May 2021 purport to share a tip about how people can obtain a discount on their mobile phone bills. The claim is false: the South Korean government and domestic telecommunications operators said the purpo
Truth or Fiction?→ Academy Awards ‘Savage’ Response to Trump’s Oscars Statement
On April 28 2021, an Imgur post (“The Academy is savage”) purportedly showed a statement in response to former United States President Donald Trump attributed to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences: Contents of the Screenshot
AFP Fact Check→ This photo has been doctored — it does not show Moon Jae-in on the cover of TIME magazine
A photo purporting to show South Korean President Moon Jae-in on the cover of TIME magazine has been shared in Facebook posts claiming the purported cover is a criticism of his government. However, the cover has been doctored and does not correspond t
Snopes→ Is There a ‘BTS Meal’ at McDonald’s?
The Korean pop boy band BTS bagged seven Guinness World Records in 2020.
AFP Fact Check→ This photo of Moon Jae-in has been doctored — he was not holding a pro-North Korea sign
A photo that purports to show South Korean President Moon Jae-in holding a card that displays a pro-North Korea message has been shared repeatedly on Facebook. The photo, however, has been digitally altered: the original shows an unrelated message th
AFP Fact Check→ Old photos of Trump recirculate online in false posts about ‘Pyongyang summit’
A video has been viewed tens of thousands of times in multiple posts on YouTube and Facebook that claim it shows former US President Donald Trump meeting North Korean leader Kim Jong-un for a summit in Pyongyang on March 14, 2021. The claim is false:
AFP Fact Check→ Facebook posts circulate fake Covid-19 government emergency alert for Seoul city
A screenshot of what appears to be a Covid-19 emergency text alert has been shared repeatedly on Facebook in March 2021 alongside a claim that it was sent out by the Seoul Metropolitan Government. The claim is false: according to South Korean governme
Health Feedback→ Both viruses and bacteria cause disease; pathogenic viruses aren’t naturally created in the body as a response to damage
REVIEW In March 2021, a series of Facebook posts (see examples here, here, and here) discussing what viruses are and if viruses and bacteria can cause diseases were posted by chiropractor Melissa Sell. The posts made a number of inaccurate and misle
AFP Fact Check→ None of these photos were taken in Vatican City
A collection of 25 photos has been shared repeatedly on Facebook and Korean online portal Naver alongside a claim they show an underground gallery in Vatican City. The claim is false: none of the photos were taken in Vatican City; they in fact show
AFP Fact Check→ This poster has been doctored from a health notice promoting the coronavirus jab
Multiple South Korean Facebook users have shared an image of a public health campaign poster, purportedly from a Swiss medical organisation, which advises people not to take a Covid-19 vaccine. The poster is a fake; it has been doctored from a real Sw
AFP Fact Check→ Unrelated photos published in false report about Moderna Covid-19 vaccine side effects
Two photos have been published in a purported news report that claims they show people suffering from side effects caused by Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine. The report has been shared in multiple posts on Facebook and Korean online forum Naver Blog. Th