Claim A viral video depicts a BBC reporter using profanity to describe an argument between U.S. President Donald Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office. The reporter allegedly utters the profanity as the BBC anchor transitions from the Trump-Vance issue to the next news item concerning UK Prime […]
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Truth has been unearthed, here. Claim Viral clips suggest that Ukraine soldiers are staging fake combat scenes to create an appearance of being in a war situation to extract financial aid from the United States. Link Fact Check To authenticate the clip, DFRAC conducted a reverse image search using keyframes from the third video clip […]
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A fast-moving fire broke out in the Hollywood Hills on Wednesday night, threatening one of Los Angeles’ most iconic spots as firefighters battled to get under control three other major blazes that killed five people, put 130,000 people under evacuation orders and ravaged communities from the Pacific Coast to inland Pasadena. Amid this, a video […]
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On social media, video of forces laying down on the ground has gone viral. While sharing the video users claim that “Israel has caught Hezbollah terrorists and their back will be demolished”. Link Fact Check During the investigation, DFRAC found that the video was from Russia. We found a similar video on Telegram channel of […]
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Malawi’s Vice President and nine other passengers on board on a military aircraft were killed after the plane crashed as the country’s President Lazarus Chakwera announced Tuesday. The Plane went missing after it failed to land at the Mzuzu International Airport while the wreckage of the plane has been found in hillside in the Chikangawa forest, a […]
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An image has been going viral on X (formerly Twitter) with the caption that Zelenskyy, president of Ukraine, has been arrested. He is further mentioned to have been transferred to Black Dolphin Prison in Russia with high security. Click here to view. Fact Check Upon checking further, however, via reverse image search, the DFRAC team […]
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An X (formerly known as Twitter) user, @OlgaBazova posted the platform by sharing a video of soldiers marching and claimed that those were the Estonian army moving towards the Ukrainian border. The post was reposted 314 times (at the time of writing the article) View here View here Other users too began sharing the video […]
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A video is making rounds on X(Twitter) showing some people protesting in a city. Users on X are sharing this video fiercely and claiming that Protesters in Kyiv demanded the resignation of Ukrainian President Zelenskyy and chanted for Zelenskyy to get out. Sharing this video on X, a user named Benny Johnson wrote: “Protesters in […]
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Sections of Few Indian media have decided to side with the NATO or West while reporting on the Ukraine war. Keeping journalistic objectivity aside, these sections have continuously cited Western sources of information like Associated Press, Reuters, Agence France Presse, Bloomberg and Nato’s official figures. This write-up details how commentators have erringly quoted western sources while writing […]
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Amid the ongoing Russia Ukraine crisis, another piece of news that Russia is preparing for a victory parade is getting circulated all over the internet. Social media users are sharing some pictures with the claims that fascist Russia is preparing a parade. Further, sharing some images Michael MacKay wrote, “Red armbands, white circle, black symbol […]
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