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نشرت حسابات وصفحات على منصات التواصل صورة ادعت أنها تظهر إندلاع حريق ضخم في محطة الكهرباء وتكرير النفط بعسقلان لكن الادعاء ليس صحيحا
Publisher’s rating: غير صحيح جزئيا
The review says a reverse-image search found that the image had already been published on May 11, 2021, depicting smoke from an oil facility in Ashkelon after Hamas launched rockets toward Israel. It says the claim circulated after a Houthi military spokesman announced operations in Jaffa and Ashkelon on December 25.
Accident video misidentified as jaipur actually its accident in italy
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
Visuals show plane crash in Brazil's Gramado.
Publisher’s rating: False
The visuals show the Jaipur gas tanker explosion on 20 December 2024.
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
The review finds that none of the visuals show the Jaipur gas tanker explosion on 20 December 2024. It identifies them as footage of separate incidents in Nigeria, Beirut, Italy and Grozny.
पटना के होटल में आग लगने से 24 घायल
Publisher’s rating: भ्रामक
The review says the viral video showed the Pal Hotel fire in April 2024, not a recent incident. It reports eight deaths in that fire and says no recent report of a fire at the hotel was found.
ദുരന്തബാധിത മേഖലയിൽ വൈദ്യുതി നൽകിയതിന് മുഖ്യമന്ത്രിയുടെ ദുരിതാശ്വാസനിധിയിൽ നിന്ന് കെഎസ്ഇബി ഒൻപത് കോടി വാങ്ങിയെന്ന് പ്രചാരണം
Publisher’s rating: Misleading
भारतीय नौसेना की पोत नागरिकों से भरी नाव से टकराई
Publisher’s rating: भ्रामक
केंद्र ने केरल से भूस्खलन आपदा के दौरान बचाव कार्यों के लिए पैसे मांगे
Publisher’s rating: भ्रामक
കേരളത്തിലെ രക്ഷാദൗത്യത്തിന് ചെലവാക്കിയ പണം ആവശ്യപ്പെട്ട് കേന്ദ്രം
Publisher’s rating: False
(Video) “Incendios forestales en Los Ángeles, Estados Unidos”: #Engañoso
Publisher’s rating: Engañoso
Asking for money for rescue operations during the Wayanad landslide disaster. They literally hate Kerala!
Publisher’s rating: misleading
Six hundred body bags were “filled the first day” of Hurricane Helene recovery in North Carolina.
Publisher’s rating: False
Visuals of an aircraft crash event is of a plane carrying Bashar al-Assad, the ousted Syrian president.
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
Facebook post purporting to show two Ethiopian Airlines pilots asleep while flying a plane at 37,000 feet
Publisher’s rating: Partly False
post claiming to show a bus crash in Saudi Arabia in which 20 Ethiopians were killed in November 2024
Publisher’s rating: False
Video shows Marcos reassuring supertyphoon Pepito victims
Publisher’s rating: ALTERED