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False claims on social media about the death toll in Uttara plane crash - factcheck report by Dismislab
False claims on social media about the death toll in Uttara plane crash
Misleading Facebook posts claim 247 dead, 522 injured in Uttara jet crash. Milestone School confirms the numbers are false.
On July 12, several old videos were circulated on social media throughout the day, falsely claiming that activists from the National Citizen Party (NCP) and Jamaat-Shibir had attacked and set fire to Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) offices in Dhaka, Comilla, Jessore and Jhenaidah. Dismislab verified five of the videos allegedly showing attacks on BNP offices and found they were not recent. The misleading footage was shared amid protests following the death of scrap trader Sohag in front of Mitford Hospital in Dhaka.
Old videos shared as recent attacks on BNP offices
Old videos falsely claiming NCP and Jamaat-Shibir attacked BNP offices in Dhaka, Cumilla, Jessore, and Jhenaidah went viral.
AI-generated videos burst into political campaign amid surge in election misinformation
The use of AI-generated content to spread misinformation has been steadily growing in Bangladesh, but the second quarter of 2025...