“An image depicting a collapsed building resulted from earthquake in Turkey recently”
Fact Crescendo Cambodia rated this: Misleading
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631 claims on this topic checked by other fact-checking organisations. Topics are sorted by the words in each claim and cover English-language checks.
“Video shows building collapsing to the ground during Feb. 6, 2023 earthquake in Turkey”
Vera Files rated this: False
“Humans are not causing climate change.” Magnetic pole shifting “is causing havoc worldwide in weather, climate, earthquakes, tsunamis, etc.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: There is wide consensus among climate scientists that the Earth is warming and that humans directly contributed to this change by burning fossil fuels. Experts say there isn’t evidence showing magnetic field variation.
“Video shows “the earthquake in Turkey.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“A dog in the picture is a rescue worker in the recent Turkey-Syria earthquake”
Factcrescendo Thailand rated this: False
“After losing their mother in the Turkey earthquake, a little girl pretended to breastfeed her crying brother to comfort him”
FACTLY rated this: FALSE
FACTLY says: This video was originally uploaded on TikTok by a user named ‘anelya.495′ on 26 November 2022. This was way before the earthquake hit Turkey on 6 February 2023
“The earthquake in Turkey is a "scripted" use of geo engineering weather modification HAARP.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: HAARP research, which involves sending high frequency radio waves into the ionosphere for research, cannot cause an earthquake. Meanwhile, Turkey sits in a region prone to earthquakes.
“Despite all the emissions, we are experiencing global cooling and not global warming”
Climate Fact Checks rated this: Misleading
“Photos showing the scene of Turkey and Syria after the recent earthquake”
FACTLY rated this: MISLEADING
FACTLY says: Out of the four photos in the post, only two were taken after the earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria. The photo of a child crouching and holding his head with his hands among the debris of a building is an old stock p…
“Strange light in sky before earthquake👀👀👌”
Youturn rated this: Fake
“A video shows a dog trying to reach her puppies after the Turkey-Syria earthquake.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“Claim: china building demolition videos shared as turkey earthquake damages”
Fact Crescendo rated this: Fact Crescendo Rating: FALSE
“Claim: this car camera footage not related with the turkey earthquake”
Fact Crescendo rated this: Fact Crescendo Rating: FALSE
“Photos depicting the collapsed buildings and houses with a claim stating they are the result of the recent earthquake that happened in Turkey. This post has received mixed comments and shared by Facebook users who are speaking Khmer. However, after running a Google Reverse Image search, it was found that the above post is misleading.”
Fact Crescendo Cambodia rated this: Misleading
“Scenes of the Vehicles on a Highway Swaying at Recent Earthquake In Turkey! (Video)”
Fact Crescendo Sri Lanka rated this: Misleading
“Visulas of the recent Turkey earthquake”
FACTLY rated this: FALSE
FACTLY says: Both videos are old and unrelated to Turkey. One was captured in 2011 when Tsunami and earthquake hit Japan. The other one is an incident in Japan in 2016, in which the front panel of a building came off due to heavy wi…
“Image of a dog lying next to the arm of a human trapped under the rubble caused by the recent earthquake in Turkey on 06 February 2023”
FACTLY rated this: FALSE
FACTLY says: The image is available on multiple stock image repositories at least since 2018. However, information about the specific location of this image not known. While it is believed that hundreds of people are still feared to…
“Photo showing Game of Thrones characters depicts victims of the earthquake in Turkey and Syria.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: The photo featured two well-known characters from the show "Game of Thrones," not victims of the earthquake. Commenters recognized the image and called on the account to take down the post.
“This 'earthquake' is a systemic attack against Kurdish people.”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
PolitiFact says: A social media post falsely claimed that the 7.8-magnitude temblor in Syria and Turkey was not an earthquake, but an attack on Kurdish people. The post was later taken down.
“Video shows collapsing condos as a result of the earthquake in Turkey and Syria”
Vera Files rated this: False