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These photos show an Iraqi photographer crying after the Iraqi football team lost

Published on 15 July 2019 at 11:05

A photo collage has been shared hundreds of times in multiple Facebook posts which claim a photographer cried after Indian cricketer MS Dhoni was dismissed in India's World Cup semi-final match against New Zealand in July 2019. The claim is false; the images of the photographer have circulated online since January 2019 in reports about an Iraqi photographer after the Iraq national football team lost to Qatar in the 2019 Asian Cup.

No, Indian cricketer MS Dhoni was legitimately run out because New Zealand had permitted number of fielders outside circle

Published on 12 July 2019 at 11:35

An image has been shared shared thousands of times in multiple posts on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram which claim the umpire in the semi-final of the 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup should not have declared India's batsman MS Dhoni "run out" because opponents New Zealand had too many players placed outside the inner circle at the time, flouting rules on fielding placements. The claim is false; New Zealand had the permitted number of fielders outside the circle when Dhoni was run out.

Indian actor Amitabh Bachchan was actually attending the funeral of his long-serving manager

Published on 10 July 2019 at 11:00

A photo has been shared thousands of times in multiple posts on Facebook which claim it shows a Bollywood star carrying the body of his “servant who worked for 40 years in [his] house” at his funeral. The claim is misleading; the photo actually shows the funeral for Indian actor Amitabh Bachchan’s manager, who died in June 2019.

No, this photo does not show a Muslim man converting to Hinduism

Published on 10 July 2019 at 09:30

A photo has been shared thousands of times in multiple Facebook posts which claim it shows a Muslim man converting to Hinduism. The claim is misleading; the photo has previously circulated in media reports about Muslims participating in a Hindu festival to promote religious harmony in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh; the man in the photo told AFP by phone in July 2019 that he remained a Muslim.

No, this video shows a Hindu woman being beaten by her husband over an alleged affair

Published on 9 July 2019 at 10:40

A video has been viewed tens of thousands of times in multiple Facebook posts which claim it shows a Muslim woman being beaten by people belonging to India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Hindu nationalist group Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS). The claim is false; the video previously circulated in media reports in 2018 about a woman in northern India being flogged by her husband for allegedly having an affair; a police official told AFP in July 2019 that the woman was a Hindu and the case had been "resolved".

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