As Kenya continued to grapple with youth-led anti-government protests, a clip emerged online claiming to show Russian President Vladimir Putin backing the protests. But the video is old and has been shared out of context, while its audio track also deliberately mistranslates what the president said. The footage is actually from last year’s annual Victory Day […]
InfoWars founder Alex Jones is claiming a new video shows Joe Biden saying he might resign from the US presidency out of concern for his health following a shaky debate performance. But the clip is years old, and it shows Biden alluding to a hypothetical he discussed during his tenure as vice president under Barack […]
Footage depicting large plumes of smoke from a residential area in Scotland was falsely shared on social media as part of a video compilation about a deadly fire that razed a battery plant in South Korea. While AFP found one of the clips in the compilation did show the massive blaze, the other video was filmed […]
As the death toll from this year’s hajj topped 1,300 amid extreme heat in Saudi Arabia, multiple social media posts misrepresented a photo of an Iranian protest in support of Gaza war victims falsely claiming it shows children killed during the pilgrimage. The image has circulated in media reports since November 2023, months before the […]
After Russia deployed military vessels to waters around Cuba for exercises in 2024, social media users claimed a video showed one of its submarines firing missiles off the coast of Florida. This is false; the clip is from a 2018 White Sea test in the Arctic Ocean. “Russia appears to be conducting marine exercises with […]
A video circulating on social media purports to show a ship ablaze near Haifa in Israel after being targeted by Yemen’s Huthi rebels and the Islamic Resistance of Iraq. This is false; the clip is from 2019 and depicts gas tankers that caught fire during a fuel transfer. “Yemen and Iraq successfully targeted two Isr*aeli […]
In western Kenya, residents living around Lake Victoria use a network of water buses to shuttle from the shore to the lake’s islands. Recently, two images surfaced online alongside a claim that they showed these water buses. However, this claim is false: the photos, which date back to 2009, show an amphibious vehicle built in […]
Consistently heavy rainfall in Kenya since March has caused landslides in various regions, leading to the loss of lives and the displacement of local residents. In early May, a mudslide in Kenya’s Rift Valley region, west of Nairobi, killed two people. An image purporting to show the disaster has circulated online, but the context is […]
A video of young Muslims visiting a church in Indonesia was altered to add text that falsely claimed it showed them converting to Catholicism. The footage was viewed millions of times on Facebook in the Catholic-majority Philippines but a priest from the diocese in Indonesia where it was filmed told AFP the event aimed to […]
Social media posts claim the US state of Michigan is awarding “illegal immigrants” thousands of dollars in housing subsidies. This is false; only non-citizens with a legal resident status can benefit from the program. “So the State of Michigan will give you $6,000 completely free if you meet one condition: You just have to be […]
A video spreading across TikTok and other platforms claims to show tsunami waves barreling through Taiwan after a 7.4-magnitude earthquake rocked the island on April 3, 2024. This is false; the clip depicts a tsunami that hit Japan in 2011. “Tsunami in Taiwan on the morning of April 3, 2024,” says text over the video, […]
Social media posts purport to show footage of the Rubymar, a British-registered cargo vessel, sinking off the Arabian Peninsula after an air strike in 2024 from Huthi rebels in Yemen. This is false; the videos depict the destruction of different ships in 2013 and 2020 in other locations. “British ship RubyMar sunk by Yemen!” says […]