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a video claiming to show an attack in Tel Aviv in October 2024
Publisher’s rating: Partly Fase
post on X (formerly Twitter) with an image purportedly of a military helicopter downed by Fano militants in 2024
Publisher’s rating: False
هل قصف الجيش المصري سيارة عائلة ليبية في صحراء الكُفرة؟
Publisher’s rating: مضلل
The review says Mansour Abu Amira was traveling with his mother and sister when they lost contact, and their burned car was later found. It reports that the Kufra municipality spokesperson said the car overturned on a sand dune inside Libya, and that fuel barrels and a gas cylinder helped the fire spread; the review also says no Egyptian Defense Ministry statement about the incident was found.
post on TikTok with a video supposedly of American troops moving closer to Iran in 2024
Publisher’s rating: False
दक्षिणी लेबनान के अल-खियाम क्षेत्र में एक इस्रायली हेलीकॉप्टर को मार गिराया गया
Publisher’s rating: भ्रामक
an image supposedly of military vehicles en route to Gonder on the evening of 12 November 2024
Publisher’s rating: False
an attack on US Aircraft Carrier Abraham Lincoln by Yemeni Houthi militants in the Red Sea and Arabian Sea in November 2024
Publisher’s rating: Partly False
a video claiming to show a US aircraft carrier escaping from Houthi rebels’ attacks in 2024
Publisher’s rating: False
صورة لزعيم هيئة تحرير الشام (جبهة النصرة سابقاً) "أبو محمد الجولاني" من داخل غرفة عمليات "ردّ العدوان"
Publisher’s rating: مضلل
The image shows an Israeli helicopter shot down in the Al-Khiyam area of southern Lebanon
Publisher’s rating: False
نشرت حسابات على منصة أكس صورة، لمدرعة تحترق مدعية أنها من المواجهات بين حزب الله والقوات الإسرائيلية في الحي الشمالي لبلدة الخيام مؤخرا،
Publisher’s rating: مضلل
The review says the image is from the 2006 July War, when Hezbollah fighters captured two Israeli soldiers and killed eight others who were aboard a Humvee between Zarait and Shatula. It separately reports that Hezbollah-affiliated media described recent clashes in Khiyam, but does not identify the image as showing those clashes.
இந்திய ரானுவம் பாக்கிஸ்தான் காரனுகளுக்கு தீவிரவாதிகளாம்.
Publisher’s rating: misleading
"بنغازي هذه الليلة وكأنها في أوروبا"
Publisher’s rating: مضلل
The review says reverse-image search traced the image to a tourism page about Tangier, Morocco, and that comparisons with Google Maps landmarks and terrain on Avenue Mohammed VI also placed it in Tangier. It concludes that the image is not of Benghazi. [S1]
نشرت حسابات على منصة إكس صوة ادعت أنها لانفجار في القاعدة الامريكية في حقل كونيكو ريف دير الزور في سوريا، مؤخرا.
Publisher’s rating: غير صحيح جزئياً
Yoopyup found that the image was not of an explosion at a U.S. base in Syria. It said the image had appeared in June 2021 as showing an explosion at an oil field outside Tehran, Iran.