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Not Prophet’s ‘tied rocks,’ but a Cairo airport sculpture

A recent Facebook post featuring an image of a floating rock has claimed that the Prophet Muhammad (SM) tied two...

A recent Facebook post featuring an image of a floating rock has claimed that the Prophet Muhammad (SM) tied two...

Video of former Ulama Dal leader circulated with claim of Jamaat leader's detention along with woman
Video of former Ulama Dal leader circulated with claim of Jamaat leader's detention along with woman
India rescue video falsely shared as Nepal footage.
Old video from India shared to claim child rescued in Nepal flood
The video claiming to show a child rescued three days after the Nepal floods actually shows a four-year-old saved from...
Factcheck Female executive magistrate harassment
Beaten woman is not an executive magistrate
Video of beating a woman, spreading as harassment towards a female magistrate.

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Video of former Ulama Dal leader circulated with claim of Jamaat leader's detention along with woman
Video of former Ulama Dal leader circulated with claim of Jamaat leader's detention along with woman
India rescue video falsely shared as Nepal footage.
Old video from India shared to claim child rescued in Nepal flood

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Factcheck Female executive magistrate harassment
Beaten woman is not an executive magistrate
Daily Inqilab uses Zimbabwe photo in Nigeria boat disaster report
Video claiming cemetery fires in India is of different incidents
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Video of homeless man on LA overpass pillar is AI-generated
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Night of rumours: How misinformation spread before Bangladesh’s landmark election
Night of rumours: How misinformation spread before Bangladesh’s landmark election
Narrow defeats of Jamaat leaders fuel conspiracy claims. What do the numbers say?

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Jugantor presents old helicopter crash footage as recent
Three of the clips used in the report were from older incidents. Jugantor did not label the footage as archival.
fact check Video of Pope Francis’s East Timor visit travels the world with different claims
Video of Pope Francis’s East Timor visit travels the world with different claims
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