Tag: Fake News

2025 Misinformation Recap: The Year’s Most Viral False Claims

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Throughout 2025, misinformation spread rapidly across digital platforms, affecting health, consumer products, and technology. This recap documents the year’s most significant viral falsehoods, from fabricated celebrity news and AI-generated videos to misleading health claims and false product warnings. As content becomes more sophisticated, understanding and identifying misinformation has become essential for navigating our digital information […]

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Video Claims to Show Sri Lanka’s Cyclone Ditwah Flood Damage is Misleading

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A viral video circulating on Facebook claims to show heartbreaking scenes from Sri Lanka, with captions stating: “Heartbreaking news from Sri Lanka… 47 lives lost as Cyclone Ditwah strikes.” The clip has been widely shared during ongoing extreme weather updates in the region. However, our investigation found that the compilation does not show Sri Lanka. […]

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CNN Did NOT Report on a “Leaked Chinese Strategy Document” Predicting Western Collapse

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A viral claim circulating on multiple platforms alleges that CNN reported on a leaked Chinese geopolitical strategy document. According to these posts, the document predicts the collapse of the United States and Western Europe by 2050 due to cultural and demographic conflict. It also supposedly states that Chinese leaders regard multiculturalism as “cultural suicide.” However, […]

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Don’t Fall for This AI-Generated Image, Falsely Showing European Leaders Lining Up to Meet Donald Trump

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Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel Recently, a special meeting was held at the White House between US President Donald Trump and a group of European leaders, including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, related to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. Soon after the meeting, an image went viral, allegedly showing European leaders queuing to meet US President Donald […]

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Unrelated Footage Viral as Assassination Attempt of the Palestinian President!

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The recent unrest in Israel and Palestine has been ongoing for over a month. As the situation continues to escalate, there have been reports of alleged assassination attempts on the President of Palestine in the past week. Social Media Post On November 7th, an extremely graphic video was circulated along with a statement claiming to […]

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Series of Satirically Altered Tweets targeting US ambassador to SL, Julie Chung!

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US Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Julie Chung is active in Twitter and has regularly expressed views of the US government, on crucial social and political issues related to Sri Lanka. However, recently we noticed a wave of sarcastically edited screenshots, linked to Julie Chung, getting shared widely among Sri Lanka social media users.  Let’s look […]

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FACT CHECK: Video of a lookalike goes viral as Cristiano Ronaldo reading the Quran

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Ever since the video of football star Cristiano Ronaldo choosing a bottle of water over a bottle of Coca Cola went viral, netizens have flooded the internet with their response, memes and even claims such as the Coca Cola company has gone through a loss after the footballer chose to drink water over their product. […]

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Former Indian cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni has NOT converted Buddhism.

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An image of former Indian cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni wearing monk robes is circulating on social media claiming that Mahendra Singh Dhoni has converted to Buddhism and thus we can see him in the robe attire. The image is going viral on Facebook and Twitter. The caption of the post mentions that “World cup […]

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