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Fake Amar Desh photocard circulating about Mirza Fakhrul factcheck
A fake Amar Desh photocard circulating on Facebook reads, “Mirza Fakhrul removed his cap after the election ended.”
Fact-check: Viral X posts falsely claim Bangladesh banned India as an election observer, but official reports confirm Dhaka invited New Delhi to observe the February 12 elections.
X posts claim Bangladesh banned India from observing the February 12 elections; reports confirm Dhaka invited New Delhi to send...
Fact-check of viral Facebook election videos in Bangladesh showing children spreading hate speech and campaigning for BNP, Jamaat-e-Islami and NCP ahead of the February 12 parliamentary polls.
Ahead of the parliamentary election, children have been used in multiple campaign videos circulating across social media. What does Bangladesh’s...
Fact-check debunking false claims that Bangladesh’s February 12 national election was suspended, based on misleading Facebook posts misattributing CPD comments.
Claims that Bangladesh’s February 12 election has been suspended are false; a fact-check finds the posts misrepresent CPD comments and...
Decontextualization of Politicians Speech Video Bangladesh
Dismislab analyzed five such videos where the speeches of political party leaders were fragmented and presented misleadingly through a religious...
Dismislab Factcheck Hindu student Ovi Das murder Bangladesh
An India-based X account falsely claim that a student named Ovi Das was tied up and thrown alive into a...
Fact-check report showing Indian media outlets falsely using an unrelated video to claim Bangladeshi police handed Dipu Chandra Das to a mob before his killing in Mymensingh.
Several Indian media claimed a viral video showed Bangladeshi police handing Dipu Chandra Das to a mob before his killing....
Fact-check of a fake Channel 24 photocard falsely quoting the DMP Commissioner as claiming BNP leader Mirza Abbas’s involvement in the Hadi murder, verified as fabricated by Dismislab.
A photocard circulated on social media claims that the Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner stated BNP leader Mirza Abbas was involved...
Dismislab Feature - Bangladesh shuts down Indian TV Channels factcheck
The Bangladesh government has only ordered the suspension of IPL match broadcasts, not all Indian TV channels.
Fact-check: Old video of a banned Chhatra League leader’s arrest falsely shared as the arrest of an attacker of Osman Sharif Hadi in Dhaka.
A video falsely claims to show the arrest of an attacker of Osman Sharif Hadi; fact-check confirms the footage is...
AI-generated image fact-check showing a false claim of a joint protest march by Bangladesh Police, Army, BGB, and Ansar demanding justice for a police killing
An image claiming to show a joint protest march by Bangladesh Police, Army, BGB, and Ansar demanding justice for a...
Fake Amar Desh photocard claims Jamaat threatened voters of consequences if they didn’t vote for the party
Fake Amar Desh photocard claims Jamaat threatened voters if people did not vote for Daripalla, Jamaat’s electoral symbol.
UN OHCHR press conference video of Volker Türk on July movement human rights violations falsely shared as ICC action and politically motivated verdict against Sheikh Hasina
A video claiming ICC verdicts in favour of Sheikh Hasina. Fact-check shows it is actually from a UN OHCHR press...
Fact-check: A Facebook video claims lawyers supported the November 17 shutdown, but it actually shows pro-BNP lawyers demanding Sheikh Hasina’s execution at the High Court.
A video claiming lawyers backed the November 17 shutdown is misleading; fact-check shows pro-BNP lawyers demanding ousted PM Sheikh Hasina’s...
Pro Awami League network discredits media with review bombing
Dismislab analyzed 62,529 review posts across 1,118 pages to trace how this network operates, who it targets, and how the...
Dr. Yunus has formed an illegal government says Putin AI video fact-check
AI generated video claiming Vladimir Putin called Dr. Yunus’s government illegal a; fact-check confirms the video was fake.
The video claiming to show Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) commissioner confirming the arrest of a BNP activist while setting a...
Footage of Rajbari mob beating falsely linked to Gaibandha political attack Factcheck
A video mislabels Rajbari mob beating as a Gaibandha political attack; fact-check confirms it shows locals assaulting an alleged extortionist.
National Citizen Party (NCP) and student coordinators attacked an Ansar camp ahead of the national election video factcheck
A video falsely claims NCP and student coordinators attacked an Ansar camp; it actually shows a November 3 training drill...
Dhaka University Teacher Shehreen Amin Bhuiyan Monami's AI and edited photo factcheck
Photos claiming to be of Dhaka University teacher Shehreen Amin Bhuiyan Monami are actually altered and AI generated.
In the first six months of 2025, less than half of all false claims were political. As the February election...
Muntasir Mahmud relieved from NCP factcheck
Muntasir Mahmud was temporarily removed from the NCP for violating party discipline, not for homosexuality allegations.
Fact check: A video of an Awami League leader’s son is false; it shows a schoolboy’s body recovery in Sherpur.
A Dismislab investigation uncovered a multi-platform stock market scam luring investors from Facebook ads into WhatsApp groups posing as top...
Dismislab’s fact-checked video with false claims ran as a Meta ad for three days, violating Meta’s policy.
Nepal fire did not destroy Charyapada
The original manuscript of Charyapada was not preserved in Singha Durbar, but in Nepal's National Archives.
Meta Political Ads
Dismislab examined the area of ensuring transparency in election ads on Meta's platforms (Facebook and Instagram).
How Google Re-victimized a woman Through Algorithms
Archita Phukan, a victim of a deepfake attack, is being re-victimized by tech-giant Google’s search engine algorithm.
Claim of former US ambassador Peter Haas using Dhaka airport lounge proven false - Factcheck report by Dismislab
The list claiming former U.S. Ambassador Peter Haas used the airport lounge on August 5 is fake.
Several posts have been circulating on social media platform Facebook claiming that the hindu woman, who was allegedly raped in...
A popular slogan supporting Bangladesh’s interim leader Dr. Muhammad Yunus unexpectedly crossed into commercial territory, as dozens of non-political Facebook...
A video has gone viral on Facebook and X, showing a group of people throwing chairs in front of a...
In a month-long investigation, Dismislab found 10 articles on US-based International Policy Digest (IPD) website critical of Bangladesh’s post-uprising government...
Investigation by Dismislab uncovered at least 37 Facebook pages brazenly selling illicit drugs, with 30 of them running ads on...
2024 was an eventful year for Bangladesh; but it was also one marked by a surge in misinformation and disinformation.
Recent reports from various Asian countries highlight the spread of a virus known as Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV). Several Bangladeshi media...
A powerful earthquake recently struck Tibet, leading to widespread destruction and significant loss of life. In the aftermath, misleading images...
Religious misinformation in Bangladesh has evolved alongside the country’s shifting political landscape, becoming increasingly localized and divisive.