Fact Check
Thursday 30 November 2023
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“Reported footage of fighting on the Venezuela Guyana border near a passage that goes across Brazil.”
Footage of a firefight between left-wing guerrillas and drug cartel gunmen in Colombia had been broadcast by local media before X users recycled it to spread fake claims about the Venezuela-Guyana dispute. -
”Heavy military vehicles at rathmines, #dublin #dublinriots #ireland #ira #army #military #rathmines #dublintiktok #dublincity”
Social media users deceptively implied routine movements of army vehicles were linked to Dublin riots while sharing old footage to falsely claim military was deployed to quell unrest. -
“It is not Russia, but Ukraine that has publicly announced that it is withdrawing from the negotiation process. Moreover, the country’s leader signed an executive order prohibiting such negotiations with Russia."
Putin started the war on Ukraine. He can end it at any time by ordering the Russian troops to withdraw and by ending the occupation. -
Old videos falsely claiming Russia and other countries are sending troops to the Gaza Strip are swarming TikTok.
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"Now, there will be presidential elections in March 2024, and already there is work being done by those scum who not only left but who now earn their pitiful pennies by forming the basis to disrupt the elections, discredit the elections."
The Russian opposition in exile plans to interfere and delegitimize the Russian presidential elections in March 2024. -
“THIS IS GAZA MADE BY HAMAS. Huge tunnels #HamasTerrorist #HamasisISIS #Israel #Gaza #Palestine”
This footage does not show Gaza tunnel. That does not negate the fact that tunnels exist, and Hamas uses them for military operations -
"How many Palestinians are to die for this war to end? Are 10,000 dead in 30 days enough? That's more than those who died over 530 days in Ukraine."
U.N. verified at least 9,701 civilian deaths in Ukraine by September. Kyiv maintains the figures are ten-fold higher. The 11,000 deaths in Gaza are not independently verified. They also do not differentiate between combatant and civilian casualties. -
“Wading through rubble to get all that is left to remind her of her child. #GazaHolocaust.”
The photograph is an award-winning document of Bashar Assad regime’s destruction of the western city of Homs, the rebels’ stronghold during the Syrian civil war. -
“The hospital said they welcomed any investigation and then subsequently demolished the laboratory.”
The Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital said it welcomed a thorough investigation from third parties, then dismantled at least part of the lab at the center of the controversy. -
"Hezbollah published a video demonstrating its anti-ship missiles after
media reported the arrival of US warships in the Mediterranean Sea.”While the video is from Hezbollah, it was first released in 2019, and was not created in response to U.S. naval deployment in eastern Mediterranean. -
“I cannot leave unmentioned the hypocrisy of the US and its allies… All they can do is to keep saying about Israel’s alleged right for self-defense, which, as an occupying state, it does not have, as was confirmed by the [UN] International Court consultative ruling in 2004.”
The 2004 International Court of Justice decision has no bearing on the Gaza Strip and Israel's or any occupying country's right to self-defense. -
#Gaza_Circus “I am wondering if the problem is with the Israeli bullets or something else; however, it seems that they are coming alive one by one.”
The video shows Muslims trained to perform an Islamic burial ritual, likely -- in Southeast Asia. It has nothing to do with Gaza.