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Published on 19/11/2019

This photo shows a Hong Kong politician removing barricades from the streets

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Published on 18/11/2019

This photo has circulated in Malaysian media reports since 2018

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Published on 18/11/2019

This image shows where debris from the 2011 Japan tsunami could disperse -- it has nothing to do with radiation

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Published on 18/11/2019

The child was crying after being exposed to tear gas in Hong Kong -- not deliberately pepper sprayed by police

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Published on 16/11/2019

Sri Lanka’s Elections Commission chairman has denied imposing a social media ban during presidential elections

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Published on 16/11/2019

Did Bolivia’s interim president delete anti-indigenous tweets?

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Published on 15/11/2019

This photo shows a man in an emergency response drill -- he was not shot by a Sri Lankan opposition parliamentarian’s bodyguards

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Published on 15/11/2019

Thimerosal: the mercury-based preservative at the center of flu vaccine misinformation

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Published on 15/11/2019

Meme using AFP photo falsely claims to show Trump-Ukraine scandal whistleblower

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Published on 14/11/2019

Posts about HIV-infected needle attacks in India are part of a long-running medical hoax

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Published on 14/11/2019

Police and local authorities have said the ‘advisory’ is a hoax -- but some official restrictions on the use of social media have been imposed

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Published on 14/11/2019

The image has been created from a screenshot of combs for sale on Chinese e-commerce site Taobao

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Published on 12/11/2019

This video of an Indonesian intersection has been edited to include special effects

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Published on 08/11/2019

No, this photo does not show the ‘oldest tortoise in Africa’

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Published on 08/11/2019

Eating a no-sugar diet does not cause cancer cells to 'die naturally'

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Published on 07/11/2019

This false police alert about Islamic State jihadists ‘posing as medics’ has spread from country to country

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Published on 06/11/2019

Canadian elections 2019: 35 million ballots printed, not votes counted

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Published on 06/11/2019

The video actually shows a man shot dead by police in California in September 2017

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Published on 06/11/2019

This image merges a photo of Thai sky lanterns with a photo of India's Golden Temple

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Published on 05/11/2019

How Google Maps images show that this truck overturned in Brazil, not South Africa

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Published on 04/11/2019

This video shows German anti-terror police conducting a drill in Nuremberg in October 2019

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Published on 01/11/2019

Mass graves at Canadian residential school: false story, unrelated photo

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Published on 01/11/2019

No, NASA did not admit that changes in Earth’s solar orbit, not human activity, is causing climate change

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Published on 01/11/2019

This video shows two unrelated incidents -- a distressed woman on a Cayman Airways plane and a fire on an American Airlines plane

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Published on 31/10/2019

Social media posts have located this flooded classroom in various African countries. It was actually filmed in Nigeria

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Published on 31/10/2019

This video shows an Italian journalist offering Mike Pompeo Parmesan cheese in protest against US tariffs on European goods

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Published on 30/10/2019

This video shows a burning train in Chile after protests broke out over a transport fare hike

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Published on 30/10/2019

This photo has been doctored to rid the flag of the original pro-democracy message

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