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This photo shows Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi greeting the former mayor of a south Indian city in 2014

Published on 18 October 2019 at 07:27

A photo that shows Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi bowing to a woman has been shared thousands of times in multiple Facebook and Twitter posts alongside a claim that the woman is the wife of Indian industrialist Gautam Adani. The claim is false; the photo, which has circulated online since at least 2014, shows Modi greeting Geetha Rudresh, the former mayor of the southern Indian city of Tumkur; Rudresh’s husband told AFP the photo shows her greeting Modi in his 2014 visit to Tumkur.

These images show an emaciated Kenyan man -- not a former Sudanese minister

Published on 15 October 2019 at 06:05

Three images of an emaciated man and a man in military uniform have been shared tens of thousands of times in multiple Hindi-language posts on Facebook and Twitter which claim they show the former home minister of Sudan. The claim is false; two of the photos show an emaciated man taken by a BBC journalist covering a hunger crisis in northern Kenya in March 2019; the other photo shows a Sudanese military personnel in April 2019. Similar photos have previously been debunked by AFP Kenya after they circulated with a false claim they showed a man found in an underground prison after being jailed by ousted Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir.

This video shows a motorcyclist falling into a crater on a road in Brazil

Published on 14 October 2019 at 06:10

A video that shows a motorcyclist falling into a pothole on a flooded street has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times in multiple Facebook and YouTube posts alongside a claim the incident happened in the south Indian city of Hyderabad. The claim is false; this is a four-year-old video from Brazil’s south-eastern city of Sao Paulo.

This video shows an actor playing a Hindu monk in an Indian film

Published on 11 October 2019 at 10:00

A video has been viewed tens of thousands of times in multiple Facebook posts which claim it shows an Indian Hindu monk's speech at a religious conference in the US in September 1893. The claim is false; the video shows an actor impersonating the monk in a Hindi film which was released in 2011, more than 100 years after the monk gave the original speech.

This video shows a Pakistani police officer hitting several women outside a court in Pakistan

Published on 11 October 2019 at 07:21

A video has been viewed more than half a million times in multiple Facebook posts published in September 2019 alongside a claim that it shows Indian soldiers torturing Muslim women in Indian-administered Kashmir. The claim is false; the video shows a Pakistani police officer hitting several women outside a court in Multan, Pakistan, in June 2019.

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