Claim: Recently, a video has been circulating on social media platforms in Pakistan, alleging that the Islamabad Police forcefully removed female students from their hostels in the middle of the night. This incident reportedly occurred amidst clashes between student federations at Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad. Debunked Source: https://twitter.com/amnakegossips/status/1630696115069648896 https://twitter.com/JafarAbbasi8/status/1630725087547596801 https://twitter.com/omerchemma/status/1630701768630779904 Fact Check: Inorder to check the […]
Claim: Recently, a photo of a former prime minister Imran Khan has been making rounds on Twitter, where it has been widely shared with a misleading context that portrays Imran Khan as a child abuser. Debunked Source: https://twitter.com/haniya600/status/1628384575964565504 Fact Check: Inorder to check the claim we performed a reverse image anlysis of the shared image […]
Claim: Recently, a video has been circulating on social media platforms in Pakistan, alleging that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s Member of National Assembly Faheem Khan was beaten by public on a routine flight. Debunked Source: https://twitter.com/SarfrazzPMLN/status/1609858705025110016 https://twitter.com/Hooria_jani/status/1609951869966721026 Fact Check: Inorder to check the claim we analyzed keyframes and performed a reverse image search and found the video […]
Claim: Recently, a video has been circulating on social media platforms in Pakistan, alleging that Pakistan has declared war in Balochistan and is deploying heavy military weaponry to Bolan and neighboring areas. The video shows visuals of jet helicopters and gunships purportedly being used in the deployment. Debunked Source: https://twitter.com/JSFM_INTL_SPKMN/status/1587052734771257344 Fact Check: Inorder to check […]
Introduction On November 22, 2022 a web-based fact checking website “Fact Focus” claimed their website has been reportedly blocked after publishing wealth statements of COAS Qamar Javaid Bajwa and his family. Fact Focus further tweeted that Urdu version of their report can be accessed at “Haqaia.com” Many netzines also reported outage and suspected it as […]
A claim went viral on social media that “Aphelion Phenomenon” will cause severe cold environment starting from 10th July 2022 till August 2022 with serious health concerns like fever, cough, shortness of breath etc. as the distance between sun and earth will increase by 66% (90,000,000 km to 152,000,000 km). (Widespread of claim on Facebook) […]
The Tata memorial hospital is situated in Parel, Mumbai, in India. It is a specialist cancer treatment and research center, closely associated with the Advanced Center for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer. A post went viral on social media in Sri Lanka claiming that cancer can be cured by hot coconut water, research by […]
Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on 15th July 2022 sent his resignation letter by email from Singapore, the Parliamentary Speaker’s office said, deferring an official announcement to Friday in order to verify the “authenticity and legality” of the document. A resignation letter claiming to be President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s official resignation letter was widely shared on […]
Parts of Pakistan continue to be affected by monsoon rain, which has caused floods and land sliding. According to the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), on 16th August 2022, 635 people died across four provinces and two administered units, most of them in Balochistan (196 fatalities). More than 1,010 individuals have been injured, over 70,000 […]
A 25 second long video went viral on social media showing Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif polishing a shoe with pictures of Pakistan Chief of Army staff (COAS) and President of United States in the background. The video was widely shared by multiple accounts on social media and gained a large amount of viewership. (Screenshot from […]