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Portland, Oregon is "war ravaged" with "fires all over the place."
Publisher’s rating: False
Road collapse near Bandra Kurla Complex in Mumbai.
Publisher’s rating: false
The video shows a massive road collapse and a sinkhole in Mumbai’s Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC).
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
The video does not show a collapse in Mumbai; the review identifies it as footage of a sinkhole near Vajira Hospital in Bangkok, Thailand. The review says the sinkhole formed on 24 September 2025 and that the video was geolocated to Bangkok.
ادعای اینکه دلیل زلزله بم، یک آزمایش هستهای زیرزمینی در سال ۱۳۸۲ بوده است.
Publisher’s rating: نادرست
A building suddenly collapsed in Agra.
Publisher’s rating: fake
The video shows an amusement park ride collapse in which 536 people died.
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
FACTLY says the video is AI-generated rather than footage of a real ride collapse. It reports that the clip was first shared by an Instagram page on 30 June 2025 and that Hive and Google’s SynthID identified it as AI-generated.
“Portland is burning to the ground.”
Publisher’s rating: False.
غرق منازل وأراضٍ في المنوفية بسبب ارتفاع منسوب النيل
Publisher’s rating: نصف حقيقي
The viral video shows a ropeway accident during the inauguration of a new government ropeway in Varanasi.
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
The review says the video shows a ropeway accident at Maa Bamleshwari Temple in Dongargarh, Chhattisgarh, not Varanasi. It also says the Varanasi ropeway was still under construction and not operational. [S1]
During a recent interview, Defence Minister Khawaja Asif advised people suffering due to the torrential rains and floods in the 2025 monsoon season to collect and store water in their bathtubs. Floodwater should be considered a blessing, he said, adding that they should collect water in their homes as it may take 10 years to build big dams.
Publisher’s rating: Misleading
The viral video shows a road collapse and large sinkhole in Delhi, allegedly caused by metro construction.
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
The review identifies the viral video as showing a sinkhole on Samsen Road in front of Vajira Hospital in Bangkok on 24 September 2025, not a collapse in Delhi. It says the video is unrelated to Delhi’s separate metro-construction collapses.
Vijay's Karur rally: Sudden power cut led to stampede, alleges TVK functionary
Publisher’s rating: false
‘రాగస’ తుఫాన్ ఆంధ్రప్రదేశ్, తెలంగాణ రాష్ట్రాలలోకి ప్రవేశించడం కారణంగా 2025 సెప్టెంబర్ 25, 26, 27 తేదీల్లో గంటకు 450 కి.మీ గాలులతో అత్యంత భారీ వర్షాలు కురుస్తాయి.
Publisher’s rating: MISLEADING
The video shows a massive cloudburst in Kolkata during heavy rains on 23 September 2025.
Publisher’s rating: MISLEADING
The video does not show a cloudburst in Kolkata; it shows a water pipe bursting in Chandmari, Guwahati, on 20 September 2025. Kolkata had heavy rain on 23 September, but the review says the IMD did not classify it as a cloudburst.
సెప్టెంబర్ 2025లో హైదరాబాద్లోని ఒక ఫ్లైఓవర్పై కారు మంటల్లో చిక్కుకున్న దృశ్యాలు
Publisher’s rating: MISLEADING
ఆగస్టు 2025లో పంజాబ్ వరదల వల్ల నష్టపోయిన రైతుల కుటుంబాలకు భారత మాజీ క్రికెటర్ యువరాజ్ సింగ్ ₹42 కోట్ల విలువైన 600 ట్రాక్టర్లను విరాళంగా ఇచ్చాడు.
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
A viral captioned post reads “BREAKING NEWS Just hours ago, a tremendous fire broke out in… See more”, accompanied by images of the fire incident.
Publisher’s rating: Misleading
The footage does not show a recent fire: the review identifies it as footage of the Bangabazar clothing-market fire in Dhaka, Bangladesh, from April 2023. It says the blaze destroyed thousands of shops and that the current posts reuse the old footage with misleading captions; links in comments redirect to advertising pages rather than legitimate news sources.
Escalators collapsed and many dead at the BM Habitat Mall, Mysore
Publisher’s rating: fake
The video shows escalators collapsing at BM Habitat Mall in Mysuru, causing multiple deaths.
Publisher’s rating: MISLEADING
FACTLY reports that the viral video is AI-generated and does not show escalators collapsing at BM Habitat Mall. A separate incident at the mall on 08 September 2025 involved a false ceiling collapse that killed two people.
The compilation of videos shows people fleeing through streets, bridges being washed away, and submerged vehicles, and they show the September 2025 floods in Delhi.
Publisher’s rating: MISLEADING
The compilation does not show the September 2025 Delhi floods: the first video is from protests in Juja, Kenya, and the remaining clips were online before the Delhi floods. The review concludes that the videos are unrelated to the Delhi floods.