1+ week, 1+ day ago  (686+ words) JUST IN Iranian missiles have sunk USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf," reads the caption of a Facebook video published on March 2, 2026, and shared more than 200 times. The post includes a grainy 10-second video showing smoke and…...

6+ day, 14+ hour ago  (519+ words) Iran has launched retaliatory attacks on US targets in multiple Middle East countries amid a war triggered by US-Israeli strikes on Tehran, and satellite imagery suggests a key radar system in Qatar was impacted. But a dramatic image spread online…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago  (323+ words) "Breaking:U.S. Delta Force troops are in the custody of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard," says a March 5, 2026 post sharing the images on X. Similar posts spread across X and other platforms such as Facebook, circulating in English as well as Arabic, Spanish,…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago  (550+ words) The video shared on Facebook on February 23, 2026 appears to show Indonesian Finance Minister Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa saying the government would distribute a "holiday allowance" to people who have not received other forms of social assistance. "I have prepared 10 trillion rupiahs…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (342+ words) The war initiated by US-Israeli attacks on Iran has expanded across the Middle East, but a video purportedly showing American soldiers and military vehicles in the Islamic republic was generated using Google's AI tools. There have been no official reports…...

5+ day, 16+ hour ago  (538+ words) North African countries along the Mediterranean coast have become a hotbed for migrants seeking a route to Europe. In February 2026, online posts circulating in South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria claimed to show three men who were arrested in Algeria while…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (304+ words) The image, which appears to show Khamenei lying dead surrounded by concrete rubble, was shared above video from an Al Jazeera news broadcast about the Islamic republic's'longtime leader being killed (archived here and here). A similar image appearing to show…...

3+ week, 6+ hour ago  (318+ words) A concrete slab at an under-construction metro rail site in the Indian megacity Mumbai collapsed in February 2026 and killed one person, but dramatic footage supposedly depicting the incident is AI-generated. An analysis found visual mistakes in the video, which was…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (714+ words) In 2020, researchers estimated 60,000 sex workers were operating in Ghana. Although the government prohibits solicitation, a video purportedly showing women sitting in glass display cases has been shared on social media across Africa as evidence of a red-light district in the…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (501+ words) "He stutters in Thai, but he's fluent in English and Chinese, amazing!" reads the Thai-language caption of an X video shared on February 12, 2026. The video appears to show Anutin saying to reporters in Mandarin about the country's border clashes with…...