Photos showing breathtaking landscapes and sceneries often go viral on social media. These images are widely admired by social media users and is one of the reason why these images get so much traction. However, many a times the context of the image turns out to be wrong or the image turns out to be […]
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The untimely death of the famous American rapper – DMX, was mourned by thousands of his fans all over the world few weeks ago. Days after the death of the superstar, a video started circulating claiming to be the scenes of DMX’s body leaving the White Plains Hospital. However, our Factcrescendo team’s investigation revealed that […]
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American rapper, songwriter and actor Rapper Earl Simmons, popularly known by his stage name DMX, died two weeks ago at the age of 50 following a heart attack. Social media was flooded with tribute messages for the legendary rapper. Also there were a number of posts claiming that DMX received Covid-19 vaccine days before heart […]
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Nearly a year after the brutal killing of Gorge Floyd, an image of US President Joe Biden kneeling in front of a boy claimed to be late Floyd’s son is being shared widely on social media in Sri Lanka. The posts also mentioned about US government awarding Floyd’s family USD 27 million for his untimely […]
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Sometimes photo editing experts try to enhance original photographs in an artistic manner to highlight an idea. People share these digitally enhanced photos without giving a lot details. This causes people to assume that these images are real. Here is one such fact check on an artistically enhanced image of the surface of the sun […]
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Unusual sightings and rare planetary formations have always drawn the attention of social media users. Recently, a picture showing three white dots in an orange sky, claimed to be an image taken from the planet Mars went viral among many social media users. The heavenly bodies in the sky claimed to be the planets Earth, […]
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Photos of natural phenomenon are shared and received with great amazement on social media. These unbelievable photos often attract lot of engagements on social media. Sometimes images misattributed to global agencies/celebrities are shared widely as social media users deem them true. At Fact Crescendo, we have debunked such campaigns before and you can read one […]
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Photos of newborn kids of celebrities and prominent families attract a lot of attention on social media. Sometimes unrelated photos get viral as photos of newborn children get viral as kids of celebrities. Recently we did a couple of fact checks in Sinhala on photos wrongly claimed to be of newborns of Rajapaksa family. You […]
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Many online hoaxes and scams spreading through social media platforms, especially through WhatsApp are always at Fact Crescendo’s watch. We have debunked several spam messages circulating on WhatsApp. Few days back, we came across a WhatsApp message, which claimed that World Health Organization (WHO) has decided to provide 500-dollar benefit. However, our investigations revealed that […]
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During the initial months of COVID-19 pandemic, a number of false claims were circulated alleging how people from different parts of the world reacted to the deadly virus. Now as some countries are trying out the new vaccines, similar claims on how people are reacting to the vaccines have emerged. A photo is being shared […]
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