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As Canadians prepare to cast their ballots in the federal election, social media users are claiming that any writing on the ...
Kenya’s former president Uhuru Kenyatta retired in 2022 after serving two terms in office. As the country gears up for the 2027 general elections, a post was shared on TikTok claiming to show Kenyatta ...
Days after a devastating earthquake hit Myanmar in late March 2025, killing more than 3,700 people, footage of dark-colored ...
Three clips from US President Donald Trump's first term in office have been shared in a compilation alongside social media ...
After the government started clearing a forested area in India's southern Hyderabad city, social media posts falsely claimed ...
As Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif visited Saudi Arabia in March, a doctored clip of a journalist purportedly ...
Protests erupted across India after the parliament passed a bill that seeks to change how properties donated by Muslims are ...
Australia's ruling Labor Party has not campaigned to recognise sharia law, contrary to social media users claiming otherwise.
The narrative that votes marked in pencil are vulnerable to tampering also spread during the 2021 federal election cycle. There is no evidence that this voting method has led to fraudulent results, ...
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Amid deadly fighting between Hamas and the Israeli armed forces in the Gaza Strip, social media users are falsely claiming an ...