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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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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George Floyd, died in Minneapolis, Minnesota on 25th May, after a police officer Derek Chauvin had knelt on his neck for almost nine minutes. Ever since these horrifying scenes of the police officer kneeling on the face of hapless George Floyd started circulating, riots erupted across the USA in the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak With […]
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With United Stated President Donald Trump at the center of attraction with record number of patients being detected, a video of President Trump getting startled on a podium when a man shouts ‘Coronavirus!!’ was circulating in social media streams. Our Factchecking team decided to factcheck it. Facebook Link | Archived Link A Facebook user called […]
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As the epicentreof the COVID-19 outbreak moved from China to Europe in the past few weeks and the number of patients testing positive for the virus increased around the world. This prompted the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare the situation a pandemic, urging the public not to fall prey for false statements in a […]
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