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“CHICAGO IS THE MURDER CAPITAL OF THE WORLD!”

Publisher’s rating: False

ماجرای عجیب بابک زنجانی؛ ابهام‌ها و تناقض‌ها

Publisher’s rating: بانک مرکزی می‌گوید زنجانی بدهی‌هایش را تسویه نکرده، اما زنجانی مدعی است بیش از مبلغ بدهی پرداخت کرده است. قوه قضائیه هم هر دو طرف را تهدید کرده که «از اظهارات تحریک‌آمیز خودداری کنند.»

Viral video shows a genuine one lakh rupee coin issued by the Indian government.

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

FACTLY reports that the government has not issued a one-lakh-rupee coin. It says the official commemorative coin honoring Raja Ram Mohan Roy is worth ₹250, not ₹1,00,000.

立憲民主党が韓国から帰化した人の政治参加を進める?

Publisher’s rating: 誤り

The review says the viral post falsely presented a claim about political participation for people naturalized from South Korea as a party announcement. The party policy cited in the post discusses considering how foreigners may participate in politics, but does not mention South Korea or naturalization; people who naturalize acquire Japanese citizenship and are no longer foreigners.

27 ఆగస్టు 2025న బీహార్‌లో జరిగిన వోటర్ అధికార్ యాత్ర సమావేశంలో ప్రధానమంత్రి నరేంద్ర మోదీని దుర్భాషలాడిన వ్యక్తిని చూపిస్తున్న ఫోటోలు

Publisher’s rating: MISLEADING

Multiple posts in August 2025 claimed that Vin Diesel had passed away.

Publisher’s rating: False

Fact Crescendo says multiple posts in August 2025 falsely claimed Vin Diesel had died, including posts with fabricated headlines and altered images. It reports that his verified Instagram account posted an update on September 4, 2025, and says no major news outlets had reported his death as of September 2025.

ఉత్తరప్రదేశ్‌లో ఒక రైలుపై రాళ్లు రువ్విన ముస్లింలను జౌన్‌పూర్ పోలీసులు అరెస్టు చేసి, ఊరేగింపు చేస్తున్న దృశ్యాలు.

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

Samosa War : How a Snack Turned Into a Big Fight

Publisher’s rating: This Article Published By Team Digital Desk

At the end of August, a user shared a video of a cloudburst, linking it to the current floods in Pakistan. The text at the top video in Urdu reads "cloudburst scenes." One user comments below the video, suspecting that it was created with AI. The video also already appeared a few weeks earlier on TikTok.

Publisher’s rating: DW Fact check: False. The video suggests that the cloudburst took place in Pakistan, while acutally, it shows a scene in Australia from 2020. A reverse image search of a screenshot from the video leads to another YouTube upload of 2020. The text on that video says "Kane Artie Photography". Kane Artie is a photographer based in Perth who shared a still from a timelapse video of a microburst in February 2020. It shows the same scene as in the video that is being shared currently in the context with Pakistan. The video has already been used several times in misleading contexts, for instance in connection with a flood disaster in Spain or in Bangalore, India. But it is definitely unrelated to the recent floods in Pakistan and India.

A user on facebook claims that a video is showing flooding in Lahore, Pakistan, implying that it is recent. The description on the video says: "A huge tragedy: the entire school bus, including the children, is swept away by the floodwaters." It shows a green van being swept away by water until it eventually sinks. Scenes from this video are also shared by other users in the current flood context.

Publisher’s rating: DW Fact check: False. Through a reverse image search, DW Fact check found a YouTube videoshowing the incident from another angle. The video was taken originally in 2022 during floods in Iran and the text below the YouTube video says in Farsi: "On July 30, passengers of a van traveling on the road from Miami to Chenark in Iran's Razavi Khorasan province were caught in a flash flood." Farsi-language sources from 2022 confirm that this incident did take place and that a van was swept away by the floods. At least seven passengers lost their lives in the incident. In late July 2022, Iran was hit by several floods and mudslides. Back then, DW reported about videos being posted on social media that showed cars caught in the rising waters and carried away.

இந்தியாவின் எதிர்க்கட்சித் தலைவர் மாண்புமிகு ராகுல் காந்தி அவர்கள் வாக்காளர் உரிமை யாத்திரை என்ற தலைப்பில் தேர்தல் ஆணையத்துடன் இணைந்து பாஜக எப்படி வாக்காளர்கள் ஓட்டை திருடுகிறது என்பதை பற்றிய பிரச்சாரம் பீகாரில் நடத்திக் கொண்டிருக்கிறார் இந்தப் பிரச்சார மேடையில் ராகுல் காந்தி வருவதற்கு முன்னால் மேடை ஏறிய ஒரு சிலர் இந்திய பிரதமர் மோடியை பற்றியும் அவருடைய தாயைப் பற்றியும் தரை குறைவான வார்த்தைகளில் கோஷம் எழுப்பினார்கள். இது கடும் எதிர்ப்பலைகளை பாஜக தரப்பில் ஏற்படுத்தியது. சமூக வலைதளங்களில் பரவிய இந்த காணொளியை வைத்து கோஷம் எழுப்பிய நபர்களை கைது செய்தனர். தீர விசாரித்த போது தான் அவர்கள் அனைவருமே பாஜகவை சேர்ந்தவர்கள் என்பது தெரிய வந்தது.. பீகார் மக்களின் வெறுப்பை காங்கிரசுக்கு எதிராக திருப்புவதற்காக காங்கிரஸ் தொண்டர்கள் போல் வேடமனிந்து பாஜக சங்கிகள் செய்த கேவலமான திட்டம் வெளியே வந்தது…

Publisher’s rating: misleading

Supplementary data from a Danish study on aluminum-containing vaccines and chronic health conditions, including autism, “shows calamitous evidence of harm.”

Publisher’s rating: Distorts the facts

ویدئویی عجیب از تخریب یک ساختمان در زمین‌لرزه‌ افغانستان.

Publisher’s rating: نادرست

Video shows flooding at Jammu Airport caused by heavy rains in August 2025.

Publisher’s rating: MISLEADING

The review says the video shows flooding at Chennai Airport during Cyclone Michaung in December 2023, not flooding at Jammu Airport. It reports that Jammu Airport was closed from the afternoon of 26 August 2025 until the afternoon of 27 August 2025, but says there were no reports it flooded that month.

Due to continuous rain in Punjab, seven districts of Punjab are flooded...... An entire family died by drowning in water due to a lack of timely help #PunjabFloods2025

Publisher’s rating: old video

GST Cut on SUVs and Luxury Cars : Prices to Drop from 22 September 2025

Publisher’s rating: This article is published by Team Digital Desk

Research from related reporting says GST 2.0 reforms were followed by price cuts of up to Rs 30.4 lakh across JLR’s Range Rover and Range Rover Sport line-ups in September 2025. The cited report does not confirm that all SUVs and luxury cars became cheaper from 22 September.

Joel Villanueva has resigned from the Philippine Senate

Publisher’s rating: False

ఈ వీడియోలో కనిపిస్తున్న 11 ఏళ్ళ చిన్న పాప, మరో పాపకు జన్మనిచ్చింది, ఇది ఇస్లాం స్వీకరించిన ఇండోనేషియా దేశంలో జరిగింది.

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

Claim: A user on Instagram posted a video of a train stuck in the floods suggesting it showed the current flooding in Patna, India.

Publisher’s rating: DW Fact check: Fake. Through a reverse image search with a screenshot of the video showing the stuck train, DW Fact check tracked it back to the initial account where the clip was first posted. The account's description says it's an "AI Video creator" and the channel points out that that the video in question "is completely Al generated (...) Please don't take it as real footage." Even without that information, it's easy to spot the typical errors made by Artificial Intelligence. The hands of the AI-generated figures partially melt into each other in an unnatural way. The persons' hair also does not look real. Another indicator of AI-generated content can be the writing seen on the train. While the words at the top of the video are indeed in Hindi, two DW journalists who knows Indian languages and scripts could not identify the writing on the train. The characters seem to be inspired by Punjabi or Hindi, but are not attributed to any Indian script, even though the train does resemble those in South Asia. Additionally, there have been no news reports mentioning any such incident in Patna.

The video shows a woman giving birth to 14 children in a hospital.

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

FACTLY reports that the video is AI-generated, citing visual distortions and its upload by an account identified as a digital AI creator. The review also says Hive flagged the video as 99.8% likely to be AI-generated. [S1]