This video is not from Syria, but from Tunisia and dates back to March 2017. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad fled the country following rebels took control of Damascus. In this backdrop, a viral video purports to show uniformed personnel uncovering a 500-year-old Torah scroll found in the basement of the Assad palace. A Torah scroll […]
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The video shows an Indian Air Force (IAF) MiG-29 fighter jet crash that occurred on 2 September, 2024 in Rajasthan A video is going viral on social media with a claim that it shows the plane carrying Bashar al-Assad, the ousted president of Syria, crashing near Homs City after departing Damascus. The caption states, “PLANE CRASH […]
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Recently, a photo went viral on social media, claiming it to be from a Syrian prison. Sharing the photo on Facebook, a user wrote, “This is not a scene from a horror movie. A prisoner of the Syrian mirror.” Facebook Link | Archived Link. However, as we investigated, we came to know that the claim […]
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Recently Syrian President Bashar Al Assad had to flee the country after the rebels took over the capital Damascus. Against this backdrop, a photo of the ousted Syrian President with his wife is going viral on social media with the claim that this is their first photo in Moscow after the end of their reign. […]
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The video is from the Syrian city of Raqqa, where a girl was beaten up by her family members on suspicion of being pregnant. A video of people brutally beating a girl with sticks is going viral on social media. In the video, a man can be seen dragging the girl by her hair and […]
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Viral video shows rockets fired by the Turkish military in Syria. This video has been circulating online since February 2020. Iran used hundreds of drones and missiles to directly target Israel in response to an Israeli strike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus, setting significant political and military precedents. It was the single largest drone […]
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The viral videos were not from the earthquake that hit Taiwan on 3April 2024. Both are old and unrelated. A strong earthquake that hit Taiwan on 3 April measured magnitude 7.4, according to the United States Geological Survey, was the strongest to hit the island in about 25 years. It killed nine people and injured […]
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The video shows an art performance in Iraq, not a real incident. It dates back to March 2023 A video showing some girls wearing burqa are standing in a line and a person is lifting the hijab of those women one by one and looking at them is going viral on social media. It is […]
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Currently, a video of a child crying over the dead body of another child and an image of many deceased children is going viral on social media. Users are claiming that these are the visuals of child genocide in Palestine during the current war with Israel. However, Fact Crescendo found the claim to be false. […]
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A few days back, Hamas terrorists infiltrated Israel and killed citizens and army personnel. In response to this, Israel struck back the Gaza strip with rockets that destroyed many infrastructures in the region. Against this backdrop, a video of a mosque being destroyed is going viral on social media. It can be seen in the […]
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The image dates back to 2021 and it shows aftermath of an explosion in the northern countryside of Aleppo province in Syria. On 5 October 2023, at least 100 people were killed and 277 others injured following a bomb attack used with the help of weaponised drones at a Syrian military academy shortly after a graduation […]
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On 8 September 2023, a strong earthquake of 6.8 magnitude hit the southwest region of Morocco. According to the latest report, around 2,000 people lost their lives and 2059 people were seriously injured. A rescue operation had been initiated to take out the people trapped under the ruins. In the backdrop of this, a video […]
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The video is not from Turkey but shows an incident of mass massacre in Syria in 2013 More than 50,000 people died in a devastating earthquake in Turkey in February. Thousands of buildings collapsed due to strong tremors that occurred one after the other. A video is now going viral on social media in which […]
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Two major earthquakes of magnitude 7.8 and 7.5 recently hit Turkey and Syria, destroying many infrastructures and killing thousands of people. Many posts and videos are going viral on social media about this incident. Now a video of a building collapsing is going viral on social media. The video is claimed to be an incident from […]
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A video of a mother dog leading rescuers to her puppy trapped under debris is going viral on social media. It is being claimed that the video is of a rescue operation in earthquake hit Turkey. However, we found that the heart-warming video is not from Turkey nor it is related to the ongoing rescue […]
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After a series of massive earthquakes hit Turkey and neighbouring Syria, thousands have been reported dead. As per the latest reports, more than 11000 people have lost their lives in this catastrophe. Search and rescue operations are being carried out on a large scale as prayers pour in from around the globe. Images and videos […]
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As the Russia Ukraine war entered into the third week, a video consisting of several clips of multiple airstrikes is doing rounds on social media. It is being claimed that it shows Russian attacks on Ukraine. After investigation, Fact Crescendo found that the viral video is a compilation of various old and unrelated videos which […]
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India’s first Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat died today after a military chopper crashed in Tamil Nadu. Indian Air Force has tweeted that his wife Madhulika Rawat and 11 other persons on board have also died in the accident. As this news broke today, several old videos and images re-surfaced on the internet […]
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After the Taliban seized Afghanistan social media platforms have become one of the major sources of sharing misleading content. A gruesome video showing few men beheading a group of men is widely circulating on social media. The claim made along with this video is that the video shows Taliban executing Christians in Afghanistan. Several instances […]
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A video of a group of people playing with a cut-off human head like a football is going viral on social media. Many have been sharing this video along with a claim that it shows the barbarity of Taliban fighters in Afghanistan. Fact Crescendo received many fact-check requests about this video on our WhatsApp FactLine […]
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As India celebrated its 75th Independence Day on Sunday, Taliban forces entered the Afghan capital Kabul forcing the incumbent President Ashraf Ghani to flee the country and thus seizing power in the country. In the aftermath of the fall of Kabul, social media witnessed a flurry of disturbing videos showing desperate Afghans trying to flee […]
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On September 14th 2014, a Facebook user named “Romakkkar” posted a picture, which was titled “Speechless”. The picture is from a news article published in the newspaper, in which we can see the picture of a child injured during the war. In war, young children end up losing their childhood and a photo depicting this […]
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