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Jun 20, 2025

Chinese arms flights to Iran claims false, based on misread flight data

The Flightradar24 screenshots showing planes over Iran actually display “estimated” flight paths, not real trajectories.

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May 23, 2025

Fact check: Viral giant anaconda video is AI generated

A video of a giant anaconda swimming in the Amazon River has taken the internet by storm, being viewed millions of time in various posts in different languages.

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Web Desk
May 19, 2025

India’s disinformation campaign exposed again

Pakistan, which has suffered tremendously from terrorism sponsored by RAW and its proxies, maintains a zero-tolerance policy toward all forms of terrorism.

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Web Desk
May 13, 2025

Typo terror: India’s clumsy ruse about Pakistan’s nuclear ‘leak’

While fake news have been dominating Indian media for a while now, today the matter turned even more (non)serious with a PR ruse.

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DW
Jul 26, 2024

Any truth behind the viral Kamala Harris disinformation claims?

Unfortunately, Harris is not alone in this — women in the public eye are more likely to be discredited by fake news and disinformation than men. This is known as “gendered disinformation.”

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DW
Apr 20, 2024

Fact check: Did cloud seeding cause the Dubai floods?

Most climate scientists do see a link between climate change and heavy rainfall. “In many cases, global warming does play a role in extreme weather patterns,” Friederike Otto, a climatologist at Imperial College London, told DW a while back.

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Web Desk
Feb 11, 2024

FACT CHECK: Javed Akhtar Khan Lund was never declared the winner on NA-184 or PP-286

Javed was never declared the winner. In fact, he was not even the runner-up in either of these constituencies. On PP-286, he was the third in ranking and on NA-184 he was tenth in ranking.

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Jan 25, 2024

FACT CHECK: Former NA speaker Elahi Bux Soomro has not passed away

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Web Desk
Jan 10, 2024

CEJ-IBA introduces fact-checking platform ahead of general election

iVerify offers a robust verification approach for journalists, focusing on eliminating bias, authenticating facts, and manually examining news articles

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Web Desk
Jan 02, 2024

Fact Check: ECP has not banned political surveys & opinion polls

It also stands to reason that any poll or survey conducted without defining the sample size and proper metrics to ensure fair representation of all stakeholders involved would not offer an accurate answer to the questions posed in the polls or survey.