Fact Check
Thursday 7 December 2023
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"The trailer of the Putin movie is fake."
Source: https://youtu.be/k34LKIkTfLE?si=KbUlRme-WBh_lX5IThe trailer is authentic. It announces a political thriller Putin, produced in Poland and to be released in February 2024. -
“The Americans have no right to the Red Sea to announce that they reserve the right to respond.”
The United States was well within its rights to defend itself and commercial ships from unprovoked Houthi attacks on international waters. -
“For the developed countries, historically speaking, they have been polluting much more than the developing countries, they should do more to mitigate the climate change impact.”
The U.N. assesses China’s development rank as high. It’s also one of the world’s top three polluters, the other two being the United States and India. -
“We noticed what was said… by… D. G. Arakhamia, that it was former British Prime Minister B. Johnson who forbade Kyiv from signing a peace agreement with Russia... These revelations by D.G. Arakhamia convincingly indicate that the staging in Bucha was organized by Kyiv...”
David Arakhamia denied that Western officials in 2022 forced Ukraine not to sign a peace treaty with Russia. The March 2022 Bucha massacre, in which Russian troops killed hundreds of Ukrainian civilians and prisoners of war, has been well-documented. -
“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.