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War & conflict fact checks

Explore claims publishers have checked about war & conflict. Read their original ratings and follow the evidence.

5,837 published reviews in this topic

FACTLYWar & conflict

Video showing the visuals from a slave market run by ISIS in Syria.

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim concerns a video presented as footage of women being auctioned at an ISIS-run slave market in Syria. The review identifies what appears in the clip—an old man lifting the veils of chained women in a line—and concludes that the footage is a staged street performance, not a real slave auction. It distinguishes the video’s depiction of ISIS’s enslavement of women from evidence that the specific scene actually records an auction. (S1)

Belarusian Investigative CenterWar & conflict

Жители Варшавы вышли на протест против участия Польши в войне

Publisher’s rating: В этом сюжете много нестыковок. Например, утверждается, что демонстрация прошла в Варшаве, но на видео показано польское село Порайув на границе Польши с Чехией и Германией. Мы нашли оригинал этого видео. Оно озаглавлено так: «Сотни демонстрантов собрались в приграничном селе, чтобы призвать к миру в Украине»

El Detector / Univision NoticiasWar & conflict

Durante la presidencia de Donald Trump, el planeta vivió una época de “paz mundial” y no estalló “ni una sola guerra”.

Publisher’s rating: Falso

The claim concerns the period Donald Trump was president, from January 2017 to January 2021, and says there was “world peace” with not a single war. The review says it checked conflict-monitoring organizations and found that wars and conflicts continued during that period, including conflicts already underway and others that began during Trump’s presidency. It therefore presents the post’s absolute claim as inconsistent with the documented record. The review cites ACLED’s account of violence in 2018, which says conflicts in Syria, Ukraine, Afghanistan and Yemen generated high levels of political violence in 2019 and represented 61% of the violent events the organization recorded for the prior year. It also reports that the Afghanistan war remained the world’s deadliest for a second consecutive year, followed by Yemen and Syria. Other examples include lethal clashes in the Central African Republic, fighting in Ukraine’s Donbas, and Ethiopia’s civil war, which the review says began in late 2020. These examples span the period at issue and directly contradict the assertion that no war occurred.

dpaWar & conflict

Cette vidéo montre des manifestants prendrent les armes au Pakistan.

Publisher’s rating: Non. La vidéo en question a été filmée en janvier 2021 au Guatemala, dans une zone frontalière avec le Honduras. À l’époque, des milliers de Honduriens avaient tenté de traverser le Guatemala pour rejoindre les États-Unis, entraînant des échauffourées avec les autorités guatémaltèques.

The claim attached to the video is that it shows people in Pakistan looting a gun shop and taking weapons to defend themselves against security forces amid unrest after former prime minister Imran Khan’s arrest. The review distinguishes that caption from the footage’s actual setting: it reports that the video was filmed in January 2021 in Guatemala, near the Honduran border, during clashes involving Honduran migrants and Guatemalan authorities. The images therefore do not document the claimed events in Pakistan. To trace the footage, the review says investigators used InVID to search for further matches and found press coverage placing the scene in Guatemala. A frame from the circulating clip appears in a January 2021 article by Chilean news site El Desconcierto. The review describes a visual comparison: a person wearing a yellow top appears in the upper-right corner of the circulating video and in the same position in the article’s image. It also identifies a longer version posted by The Telegraph, which likewise attributes the footage to unrest in Guatemala near the Honduran border. The review separates the video’s origin from the genuine unrest in Pakistan. It reports that protests followed Khan’s arrest and that internet service was cut, but says it found no international media reports of a weapons depot being looted or martial law being imposed. It notes that Khan described Pakistan as operating under unofficial martial law in an NPR interview, while a Pakistani army representative said martial law was not being considered. The review also traces the Facebook video to a TikTok account whose other posts concerned Khan and protests in Pakistan, but says the Guatemala footage was no longer on that account.

dpaWar & conflict

Er stierven 26,6 miljoen Russen in WOII.

Publisher’s rating: Het getal van 26,6 miljoen doden is van toepassing op de gehele Sovjet-Unie, niet alleen op Rusland. Alle Sovjetrepublieken verloren manschappen in de Tweede Wereldoorlog. De foto van een Sovjetvlag boven het Rijksdaggebouw in Berlijn dateert van 2 mei 1945.