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This photo shows Indonesia’s new Health Minister celebrating a promotion in 2019

Published on 11 December 2019 at 07:40

An image has been shared thousands of times in multiple Facebook posts which claim it shows Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Sri Lanka’s recently elected president, during a visit to Pakistan in 1985. The claim is false; the photo actually shows Dr. Terawan Agus Putranto, Indonesia's Minister of Health, in October 2019 celebrating a military promotion that came just hours before he was appointed as head of the Ministry of Health.

This Facebook post includes a doctored image of football stars wearing eye patches

Published on 2 December 2019 at 08:45

Several images of people covering their left eye have been shared hundreds of times in multiple posts on Facebook that claim they were showing solidarity with a Palestinian journalist who was blinded in one eye in the West Bank in November 2019. The post also includes a composite image of two photos of two journalists with eye injuries. The claim is misleading as some of the photos have been used in the wrong context; one photo collage of professional football players has been doctored to include eye patches; a photo in one composite image shows a different Palestinian journalist who suffered an eye injury in a separate incident.

This photo shows a specific breed of curly-haired Hungarian pigs

Published on 28 November 2019 at 04:55Updated on 28 November 2019 at 06:43

An image has been shared repeatedly in multiple Facebook and Twitter posts alongside a claim that it shows a pig that was bred with a sheep to mislead Muslims into eating pork, which is prohibited in Islam. The post adds that the breeding was facilitated by new technology from Austria. The claim is false; the image shows Mangalica pigs, a Hungarian breed that was first developed in the 19th century by cross-breeding different types of pigs.

This video shows a band pausing their performance for a call to prayer in Turkey

Published on 26 November 2019 at 06:00

A video has been viewed more than one million times in multiple posts on Facebook and YouTube alongside a claim that it shows musicians in Germany pausing a performance in order to listen to an Islamic call to prayer. The video has been circulated in a misleading context; it shows a French band pausing its performance in the Turkish city of Istanbul after hearing a call to prayer from a nearby mosque.

This photo has circulated in Indian media reports about clashes between police and Sikh protesters in 2015

Published on 25 November 2019 at 09:10

An image that shows a man with wounds on his back has been shared in multiple Indonesian-language posts on Facebook and on blogs that claim he died after his phone exploded. The claim is false; the image has previously circulated in Indian media reports about clashes between Sikh protesters and police in Punjab state in October 2015.

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