Fact Check
Friday 9 February 2024
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X user
“With the help of God Almighty, the naval forces of the Yemeni Armed Forces carried out two military operations in the Red Sea, the first targeting an American ship (Star Nasia) and the other targeting a British ship (Morning Tide).”
Read more...X users continue to recycle old footage — from military exercises to environmental disasters — to boost fake Houthi successes in Red Sea attacks. -
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Vladimir Putin
Russian president
Ukraine started the war; Russia’s goal is to stop it. Ukrainians still consider themselves Russians, what is happening is an element of a civil war. The 2014 coup d’etat in Ukraine was accomplished by the opposition with the help of CIA. “NATO has options to recognize Russia’s control over the new regions. Russia had to take Crimea under its protection in 2014. We have made so many gestures of goodwill, that we’ve exhausted all limits. Nobody responded to our goodwill gestures with similar gestures.
Read more...Putin replayed thoroughly debunked falsehoods and pedaled the Kremlin’s traditional propaganda narratives. -
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Spokespersons for the Chinese embassies in the Philippines and the Netherlands
“The Chinese government ... allows no country or individual to engage in cyberattacks and other illegal activities on Chinese soil or using Chinese infrastructure.”
Source: Website of Chinese Embassy in the Philippines, Feb 5, 2024; Website of Chinese Embassy in the Netherlands, Feb 6, 2024Read more...China has a documented history of malicious and espionage cyberattacks around the world, most of which are linked to Chinese government actors. -
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Anonymous
“Application for obtaining a national passport of Belarus.”
Read more...The exiled Belarusian opposition has denied issuing the online forms and warned they may be part of an operation by President Aleksandr Lukashenko regime’s intelligence agency to collect dissidents’ personal data. -
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Nasser Kanani
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman
“[U.S.] behavior is inconsistent with their claims on non-expansion of the [Gaza] war in the region.”
Read more...Iran-controlled network of proxy militias conducts systematic attacks and spreads violence across the Middle East and beyond. The United States responds with security measures designed to stop violence and prevent the expansion of violence. -
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Amir Saeid Iravani
Iran's Ambassador to the United Nations
"[T]here is no group affiliated with the Islamic Republic or Iran’s Armed Forces, whether in Iraq, Syria or elsewhere that operates directly or indirectly under the control of the Islamic Republic of Iran or acts on its behalf."
Read more...Iran is financing, training and supplying advanced arms to some 40 radical Islamist militia groups from the Middle East to Horn of Africa, many of them engaged in terrorist activities. -
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Islam Times
Hezbollah’s media arm
“British ship [hit] by Yemeni Opposition.”
Read more...Hezbollah media use old unrelated footage to back Houthis’ claims of successful Red Sea attacks. -
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Maria Zakharova
spokeswoman, Russian Foreign Ministry
"We noted the markedly heightened temperature of the rhetoric of official Seoul directed at Moscow that Russia … is allegedly carrying out ‘military-technical cooperation’ with Pyongyang. … [W]e strongly reject any attempts by the U.S. and its satellites to illegitimately accuse our country."
Read more...Multiple intelligences confirm Russia’s purchase and use of North Korean military equipment and ammunition. Experts identified the North Korean origin of missiles Russia used to strike Ukraine. -
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The Russian Embassy in South Africa
“In 2014, the Bandera junta in Kyiv downed #Malaysian flight #MH17 over Donbass, taking almost 300 innocent lives.”
Read more...An international investigation proved that the Russan Army had provided equipment, weaponry and logistics to Russia-controlled forces to shoot down MH17. -
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Henry Okello Oryem
Uganda’s State Minister of Foreign Affairs
"The people dying of hunger in Uganda are idiots because there is enough food, land and the right climate."
Read more...Thousands of Ugandans die of hunger every day because of food shortages and the effects of climate change that deprive farmers of harvest and income. -
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Qalandar Ibad
Taliban's Minister of Public Health in Afghanistan
"Most of the time they talk about mortality of the mother and children … but when we ask from where you have got this data, they have no answer for us. So, I think some of their reports are fake reports."
Read more...Credible international sources have documented Afghanistan's healthcare crisis under the Taliban. -
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Mao Junxiang
Executive director of the Human Rights Center of Central South University
"In the past five years, the human rights cause in China has made remarkable progress, particularly in the areas of poverty alleviation and the successful fight against the COVID-19 pandemic."
Read more...China has made considerable progress in alleviating poverty. But its fight against the COVID-19 pandemic employed draconian measures, undermining Beijing’s own concept of core human rights — the people’s right to develop and survive.
