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4-yr-old killed in Gaza: Israel govt falsely claims video shows a doll, not a child

Shinjinee Majumder & Mohammed Zubair16th October 202317th October 2023

Trigger Warning: Dead Body, Child Death [Editor’s note: It is unfortunate that we find ourselves in a position where we must fact-check a claim that portrays a deceased child as…

Justin Bieber uses Gaza photo in ‘pray for Israel’ story on Instagram, deletes it

Abhishek Kumar16th October 2023

Gaza has said that 2,329 Palestinians have been killed in the ongoing war with Israel making it the deadliest of the five Gaza wars for Palestinians. The current war erupted…

2021 video of protesters climbing Lebanon-Israel border fence falsely viral

Shinjinee Majumder14th October 2023

In the midst of the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, a video of several people climbing over a tall fence is viral with the claim that they are Lebanese terrorists, trying to…

No, Pak flag was not bigger or placed higher than Indian flag in Kerala mall

Abira Das14th October 202314th October 2023

A picture depicting the Pakistani flag apparently bigger in size and apparently placed higher than the Indian flag has gone viral on social media. Social media users have added a…

RSS mouthpiece Organiser shares 2022 Sweden video falsely linking it to Israel-Hamas war

Shreyatama Datta14th October 2023

A 15-second video, in which two smaller clips are added one after the other, has gone viral on social media. It shows a police van being attacked. In the first…

Two-yr-old video of antisemitic rally in London viral amid ongoing war

Oishani Bhattacharya14th October 202317th October 2023

Amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas, a video of a fleet of cars with Palestinian flags is viral on social media with the claim that the visuals are…

US aid to Israel: Viral video of aircraft is made up of unrelated, old clips

Shinjinee Majumder12th October 2023

A video apparently showing the “US military sending huge planes full of heavy-duty equipment to Israel” in the war against Hamas is viral on social media. X user @MattWallace888 tweeted…

Ad film shooting clip viral as visuals of violence from Israel-Palestine conflict

Oishani Bhattacharya12th October 2023

Against the backdrop of the Israel-Palestine conflict that has now escalated into a war, a 20-second clip has surfaced on social media that features a man with a bloodied face…

Disinformation, falsehoods flood social media as Israel-Hamas conflict escalates into full-blown war

Shinjinee Majumder11th October 202312th October 2023

Entering its fifth day on October 11, the Israel-Palestine conflict all but escalated into a full-blown war with the Israeli military confirming that dozens of its fighter jets had struck…

Israel-Palestine war: Unrelated, old clips shared as visuals of ongoing conflict

Abhishek Kumar11th October 202312th October 2023