War and conflict

“We are seeing “the Justice Department treat American parents as domestic terrorists” under the Patriot Act.”

PolitiFact says: The federal government has not yet taken any action against anyone. The concerns about the use of the Patriot Act are hypothetical.

“Parents who challenge school curriculums are domestic terrorist(s).”

PolitiFact says: U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland told federal agencies to work to address criminal threats against school officials and staff. Garland’s instructions say that “spirited debate” is protected by the Constitution.

“Video that shows 40,000 US soldiers resigning and throwing away their medals after they fought in Afghanistan and Iraq”

FACTLY says: The visuals are from an anti-NATO rally in 2012 in Chicago where nearly 50 US veterans threw away their medals. The veterans were protesting the US’ war in Afghanistan and Iraq. There are no recent news reports of such …

“Video showing Indian military crackdown on Kashmiris”

FACTLY says: The video shows police lathi charge at protesters who resorted to pelting stones at police during the anti CAA protests at Nakhas Chowk area in Gorakhpur back in December 2019. Many news agencies have reported the incid…

“Video of arson attack on a temple by terrorists in Zainapora area of Shopian, Kashmir”

FACTLY says: The Video is actually of a fire break out in a residential area of Parimpora, outskirts of Srinagar. The fire which initially broke out in a house soon engulfed the nearby houses. Multiple local news agencies have also …

“Achievements of Abdul Hamid who received Param Vir Chakra for his actions during India-Pakistan war of 1965, are fake”

FACTLY says: Company Quarter Master Havildar Abdul Hamid received the Param Vir Chakra, India’s highest wartime gallantry medal on 10 September 1965 posthumously. Abdul Hamid is remembered for his dexterity of shooting down the ‘pat…

“Ferdinand Marcos was awarded by the Americans for fighting the Japanese during World War II”

“Ida was the strongest hurricane to ever strike anywhere in the United States.”

“The United States spent “2 trillion dollars to train and equip the Afghan military over the past 20 years. They fell in a week.”

PolitiFact says: The $2 trillion figure is considered credible for the 20-year U.S engagement in Afghanistan, but it includes much more than just training and equipping the military.

“Image is of a meeting of Intelligence agencies of five countries- India's RAW, Israel's Mossad, America's CIA, Russia's KGB and England's MI6 at Delhi”

“Studies of our drone strikes have suggested that maybe eight out of 10 times we are hitting the wrong target, we have killed thousands of civilians.”

Washington Post says: Murphy is wrong to claim that “studies” show that 8 out of 10 times U.S. drones have hit the wrong target. He’s talking about the supposed track record during a five-month period in a region of Afghanistan 10 years ago.

“Military arrests Hunter Biden!”

“Video of an alligator swallowing a drone was shot by Sundar Pichai”

FACTLY says: The video was taken in Everglades, Florida by a TikTok user named ‘Dev H Langer’. This video was not shot or posted by Sundar Pichai, he merely retweeted a post by a twitter user named Chris Anderson, who had tweeted th…

“It is shocking to see the Taliban flying the military helicopter left by the US in the skies of Kandahar hanging the dead body of an Afghan who worked as a translator for the Americans from the helicopter”

“The Department of Defense “ordered ALL military working dogs to be left behind in #Afghanistan.”

“In Afghanistan, “over 100 billion dollars spent on military contracts.”

“Photos show the U.S. service members killed in a 2021 suicide bombing in Kabul.”

“Norfolk naval base has been taken by NATO.”

“The bomb threat near the U.S. Capitol on Aug. 19 was a false flag.”

“Says “31 U.S. troops” were “killed in Afghanistan yesterday.”

PolitiFact says: A viral post shared amid the U.S. Afghanistan withdrawal suggests 31 troops were killed there “yesterday.” The attack that killed 30 troops occurred in August 2011.