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FACTLY says: This viral video actually depicts an incident that occurred in the Umsohsun area, under the jurisdiction of Lumdiengjri Police Station in Shillong, Meghalaya, on 23 May 2025. According to reports, the East Khasi Hills p…
FACTLY says: The video is a compilation of two clips: the first shows a scripted arrest video made by a content creator named Kanu Alii, while the second depicts a real stabbing incident from Brazil in May 2025 involving a land disp…
FACTLY says: The viral video is scripted and does not depict a real incident. It was uploaded by Monty Deepak Sharma, a video creator, on his Instagram handle on 02 April 2025
Deutsche Welle says: The Pope is seen walking along a corridor lined up with throngs of people, alternating between shaking hands to his left and right side. He is turning to the other side before the flag appears on screen. The multicolore…
FACTLY says: This video is AI-generated and was originally posted by an artist account, @mbaiarts, on Instagram. There is no credible evidence supporting the existence of such an ancient temple in the Bali Sea.
FACTLY says: The viral video is not of a real incident but a scripted one. It was shared by content creator ‘Ashwani Pandey’ on his YouTube channel and Facebook on 28 April 2025. The video also includes a disclaimer stating that it …
Vera Files says: The conclave chose American-born Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost as the next pope. He took the papal name Leo XIV.
PolitiFact says: The New York Times didn’t publish a headline saying Pope Leo XIV, formerly Cardinal Robert Prevost, helped start the “anarchist” zone known as CHAZ.”
FACTLY says: The video actually depicts a fire that broke out in Moju Chowdhury’s market in Lakshmipur, Bangladesh, on 11 July 2024, resulting in the destruction of more than 15 shops. This incident is unrelated to the Nainital comm…
FACTLY says: The woman in the viral photo is Bangladeshi digital creator Adrita Azad Rithi, who clarified in a Facebook post that she is a Muslim by birth and suffered the injury in a road accident, not due to any assault. Her husba…
FACTLY says: The video shows an incident in Jakarta, Indonesia, where a suspected pickpocket, Fery Ansyah, was beaten by a railway police officer at Depok Baru Railway Station on 13 May 2017. Ansyah had been involved in multiple the…
Vera Files says: The papal conclave or the gathering of cardinals to select the new Bishop of Rome will convene only in the first week of May.
FACTLY says: The video actually depicts a fire at a banquet hall in Raj Nagar Extension, Ghaziabad, and has nothing to do with any mosque or Bajrang Dal. The fire was caused by a short-circuit, not an act of arson targeting a religi…