FACT CHECK: Video From Russian Attack Being Falsely Shared As Phosphorus Bomb In Gaza | Check Your Fact
Verdict: False
The post is miscaptioned. The video depicts a Russian attack on Ukraine from March.
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FACT CHECK: Viral X Post Falsely Claims Hamas Thanked Ukraine For UK Naval Drones | Check Your Fact
Verdict: False
There is no evidence supporting the claim. A photo included in the post originally stems from a November 2022 EurAsian Times article.
FACT CHECK: Did Vladimir Putin Warn The U.S. Not To Interfere In The Israel-Palestine War? | Check Your Fact
Putin does not mention Israel or Palestine, but rather, discusses the threat of nuclear war in relation to the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine
BBC did not report that Ukraine is sending arms to Hamas, a video was fabricated
CLAIM: A video shows a BBC News report confirming Ukraine provided weapons to Hamas.
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The widely shared video clip is fabricated. Officials with the BBC and Bellingcat, an investigative news website that is cited in the video as the source, confirm that neither outlet has reported such a claim. Experts say there is no evidence of Hamas making such a claim, either, and say there is no reason for Ukraine to arm the militant group.
Israeli military spokesperson shuts down rumors of Ukraine weapons used by Hamas
Russian propaganda channel RT Arabic asked the Israel's IDF spokesperson Avichay Adraee about "Ukraine providing Western weaponry to Hamas" several times.
Lt. Colonel Adraee replied: "I do not comment on such fabrications and lies.”
Fake: Olena Zelenska Received an Israeli Citizen Passport
The document circulating online is fake. This is evidenced by the many errors in the so-called passport, in particular, the misspelled Hebrew name, surname, nationality and birth place of Olena Zelenska, as well as the validity period of the document.
Old port fire video falsely shared as ‘Israeli attack on Iran’s military aid to Russia’
An old video of a smoking field of debris has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times in Chinese-language social media posts that falsely claim it shows Iranian military aid for Russia blown up by Israel in March 2023. But there is no evidence the event described in the posts actually occurred. The video was in fact shared by an Afghan official in the aftermath of a massive port fire in the country in February 2021.
Here’s what we know about the Ukrainian soldier accused of wearing an IS group badge – Truth or Fake
Images of a Ukrainian soldier on the frontline wearing what seems to be an Islamic State (IS) group badge on his arm have taken the internet by storm. Some users and media outlets claim this is evidence of links between the terrorist group and Ukraine. The soldier himself says differently. We tell you what we know so far in this edition of Truth or Fake, with Vedika Bahl.
Team Jorge’: Journalists expose the business of disinformation black ops – Tech 24
This week saw the release of a wide-ranging investigation into the lucrative disinformation industry, published by a media consortium led by the French NGO Forbidden Stories. At the centre of the story is a shadowy Israeli group nicknamed "Team Jorge" who claims it has influenced 33 elections worldwide with a potent combination of phone hacking and thousands of fake profiles. FRANCE 24's Technology Editor Peter O'Brien dives into the systems they use to wage disinformation "black ops".
AFP photo from West Bank falsely shared as ‘Ukrainian child throwing stones at Russian tank’
A photo of a child throwing a stone at a tank has been shared repeatedly in Chinese-language posts on Twitter, Facebook, and Weibo alongside a claim it shows the Ukrainian resistance against Russia's invasion. This is false: the photo was taken by an AFP journalist in 2002 and actually shows a Palestinian child throwing a stone at an Israeli tank.