Fact Check
Friday 1 March 2024
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A mob in Pakistani Lahor
“This woman has disrespected the Quran. She did it with purpose.”
Read more...The Arabic calligraphy printed on the fabric of a woman’s dress was the word “Halwa.” It had nothing to do with the Quranic verses or blasphemy. -
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African Stream
Pan-African Digital Media Organization
''Washington also allegedly uses Rwanda and Uganda as conduits for arms shipments to militia groups in the DRC.''
Read more...Western governments have for years tried to end the violence in Congo. Rwanda, on the other hand, has been involved both directly and indirectly in the violence. -
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Simon Ateba
owner of the Today News Africa website
"BREAKING – ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF TUCKER CARLSON: A man has just been arrested in Moscow, accused of being paid by Ukrainian intelligence to plant an explosive device on Tucker Carlson's vehicle and assassinate the prominent American journalist while he was there to interview Putin.”
Read more...The digitally manipulated origins and distribution patterns of the original report about this alleged assassination attempt display characteristics of the tactic known as disinformation laundering, which Russian state propaganda networks frequently employ. -
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Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov
chief of Russian army’s radiation, chemical and biological protection force
"Russia destroyed all stockpiles of its chemical weapons in September 2017, and this was done ahead of schedule. ...the United States was supposed to complete the destruction of declared stockpiles of chemical weapons in 2007, however… it did this only in 2023... During a special military operation, cases of the use of American chemical munitions by the Ukrainian armed forces were recorded.”
Read more...Russia’s declared destruction of all its chemical weapons remains an open question. Moscow presented no evidence to international bodies that Ukraine used chemical weapons. -
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Wall Street Silver
X influencer
"Left: Subway in New York, USA Right: Subway in Guangzhou, China
But don't worry... U.S. politicians have it under control. They will send Ukraine and Israel billions more while giving illegal migrants free health care. That should do the trick!"Source: X, Feb 19, 2024Read more...The New York City Subway budget is not dependent on U.S. aid to Ukraine and Israel. Undocumented immigrants in New York City get free emergency and prenatal health care; everything else is conditional. -
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Sayyid Ali Khamenei
"A US president once called on the Iranian nation to boycott elections. In opposition to him, people participated with even more enthusiasm. After that, they stopped saying this directly, but they still try to distance people from the elections using various methods."
Source: X, February 19, 2024Read more...The Iranian regime labels domestic political dissent as agency of foreign influence to justify repressions. -
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Maria Zakharova
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman
"Here is a clear example of how 'freedom of speech and assembly' is respected and not violated in the United States: the neo-Nazi group Blood Tribe marched yesterday in Nashville from the local State Capitol to ‘downtown’ ... Of course, everyone will remain silent ... Look carefully, no one calls the police: freedom, everyone does what they want. It just turns out that this applies exclusively to the forces of evil - such as neo-Nazism, gender experiments on children, legalization of drugs, Satanism, and so on.”
Read more...Contrary to Russia, where freedom of speech has become a defunct constitutional article, in the U.S. it is a powerful instrument of democracy that applies indiscriminately. -
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Valery Falkov
Russia’s science and higher education minister
"The pride of Russia is our Nobel laureates - Sechenov, Butlerov, Kantorovich, and many others."
Read more...Ivan Sechenov and Alexander Butlerov did not receive the Nobel Prize, and Leonid Kantorovich received the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. -
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Qawemisrael
X user
“#Hezbollah Hits Israeli Base By Guided Missiles And Causes Comlete [SIC] Destruction.”
Source: X, February 8, 2024Read more...Years-old video shows firefighters holding an exercise in Sichuan, China, and has nothing to do with Israel. -
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Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, Iran’s foreign minister
“Today, Iran is considered among the top 5 and main countries in the world in some fields of science and technology.”
Read more...The Iranian foreign minister’s assertion that Iran is considered among the top five and main countries in the world in some fields of science and technology is false. -
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China Association of the National Shipbuilding Industry
“After delivering the first home-grown large cruise ship Adora Magic City, China has the ability to build all types of maritime ship products.”
Source: Global Times X account, Feb 13, 2024Read more...The Adora Magic City is heavily reliant on foreign technology. According to the cruise’s chief designer, only 30% of the ship was built by domestic suppliers, while the rest was sourced from Europe. -
![Maria Zakharova]()
Maria Zakharova
spokeswoman, Russian Foreign Ministry
"The American video hosting platform YouTube has launched a fresh wave of account bans targeting Russian media. … It is the ruthless weeding out of any seedlings of dissent in the media space. Arbitrary actions and political censorship…"
Read more...YouTube blocked Russian state media channels for violating its community guidelines.
