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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...

Factcheck Female executive magistrate harassment
Beaten woman is not an executive magistrate
Video of beating a woman, spreading as harassment towards a female magistrate.
Daily Inqilab uses Zimbabwe photo in Nigeria boat disaster report
One of the two photographs used in the report was not from Nigeria, but from a separate ferry-capsizing accident on...
Video claiming cemetery fires in India is of different incidents
One scene in the video is from an incident of a fire at the Al-Saleheen Cemetery in Aleppo, Syria, while...

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Video claiming cemetery fires in India is of different incidents
Factcheck Video of homeless man on LA overpass pillar is AI-generated
Video of homeless man on LA overpass pillar is AI-generated
Factcheck Kharaj Mukherjee death rumor spreads amid Nepal floods
Kharaj Mukherjee death rumor spreads amid Nepal floods
Video of elephant rescuing man not from Nepal floods
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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.
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Video of Pope Francis’s East Timor visit travels the world with different claims
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Meta monetized Bangladeshi lawmakers despite policy barring political figures
Meta bars elected officials from earning, but 13 Bangladeshi MPs can monetize
The findings raise questions about how Meta vets accounts for monetization, whether it enforces its own political eligibility rules consistently,...
Reciprocal attacks on Hindu Muslim minorities in India Bangladesh
How a deleted Facebook video resurfaced to stoke cross-border religious hate on social media
Following the West Bengal election in India, false claims that Muslims were being persecuted by the BJP in India began...