Today (March 24) marks one month since Russia started its invasion into Ukraine and misleading photo and video claims continue to get shared virally on social media streams across the world. A picture, for example, showing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy expressing “V sign” gesture over Russian President Vladimir Putin during a photo session with French […]
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A plane Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-800 carrying more than a hundred passengers crashed in Guangxi province in southern China on 21 March. Soon after the news of the crash went viral, a clip of a plane bursting into flames surfaced on social media claiming to be of the plane crash in China. Again in August […]
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Various types of misinformation are being shared on social media regarding Ukrainian President Zelensky these days. Meanwhile, a video claiming to be the Ukrainian President and his wife Olena singing a song, have been shared by many social media users. However, our investigation proves the claims are false and misleading. Social Media Posts A Facebook […]
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A video of a frail old man is going viral with an unusual claim. Users are sharing the video of a saffron-clad man claiming him to be a 200-year-old Himalayan monk. Readers of Fact Crescendo forwarded this video to our WhatsApp FactLine (9049053770) and requested to do a fact-check on it. We found that the […]
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A video which looks like the clipping of a television news report is going viral across social media as the captions claim, it shows a “dead person waking up to adjust the body bag” during the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine. The captions also suggest this is how Ukraine is faking the deaths of people […]
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Russia and Ukraine war entered its second week. Even after three rounds of talks, there was no concrete conclusion about a cease-fire. With Russia constantly attacking Ukraine, a number of posts and videos about the war situations are circulating on social media. In the backdrop of this, a screenshot of a tweet showing a fighter […]
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As Russia continues its invasion into Ukraine for the second week, capturing Ukraine’s second largest city, scenes of bombardments and devastation are being reported more frequently. Misinformation related to destruction sites from Ukraine are also on the rise and our investigation revealed that one such video revealed that those were actually footage attributed to Beirut […]
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As Russia continues its invasion into Ukraine, a 30-second video clip was widely circulated on social media with a claim that it was a heartbreaking scene of Ukrainian soldiers hugging their loved ones before departing to join in the forces in their fight against Russia’s invasion. The video clip has been virally watched by social media […]
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With the ongoing Russian invasion in Ukraine, we come across number of horrifying scenes in international media related to bomb blasts and missile attacks. However, some unrelated blasts which occurred a few years ago, at various locations around the world, have also been attributed to the current Ukraine situation by social media users. In this investigation […]
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An image of a female soldier with an assault rifle is doing rounds on social media with a claim that she is the wife of Ukraine’s Vice President on the battlefield resisting the Russian aggression. However, we found out that the image is old and is not of the wife of the vice-President of Ukraine. […]
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