Claim: Russian President Vladimir Putin in a press conference praised PM Imran Khan & will sign a major oil pipeline deal”.
Fact: Vladimir Putin did not announced to visit Pakistan to sign an oil pipeline deal. The subtitles have been edited to praise current government.
On Feb 27-28, 2022, multiple SM users shared a clip of Vladimir Putin speaking in a press conference saying "This week I hosted the Prime Minister of Pakistan, a brave man..... and soon I will visit Pakistan to sign a major pipeline deal.”
Here is a collage of multiple posts made on Facebook that went #Viral. Most of the posts were shared by PTI supporters to highlight current government's achievement.
A reverse image search took us to original video posted on YouTube by The Guardian News on Feb 26, 2022. No such statements were made. Translation says "#Ukrainian govt drug addicts and neo-Nazis"
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Conclusion: #ViralVideo of Russsian President Vladimir Putin praising PM Imran Khan & announcing to sign an oil pipeline deal is being shared with incorrect subtitles. In the original video Putin did not referenced Pakistan or PM Imran Khan.
Claim: A photo of an Indian fighter jet is claimed as aftermath of #OperationSwiftRetort.
Fact: The image of crashed jet is actually from 2015 where an Indian trainer jet crashed in Odisha state on June 3, 2015.
A trend started on Feb 26-27, 2022 on Twitter to highlight Pakistan's #OperationSwiftRetort in response to India's #BalakotAirStrike. Amid several posts, we found some posts featuring an image of a crashed fighter jet as if its result of an aftermath of the operation by Pakistan.
#FakeNews alert!!!⚠️ #FactCheck: Old photo of burning rickshaw posted with false claims.
We did a fact check on the claims and found the image posted in 2018 and since then it has been used several times with false claims.
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Claim: A rickshaw of a poor laborer was burned during a protest march by The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI).
Fact: The image being circulated is from 2018. As per @ARYNEWSOFFICIAL - protests by religious parties over the acquittal of Aasia Bibi in a blasphemy case @PTIofficial
Few days after PTI held "Haqooq-e-Sindh March", a photo of a burning rikshaw shared with claims that it was burned during PTI's march. Some users also demanded to punish the culprits. A twitter post by Muneeb Rizvi got 103 RTs & 194 likes. Similar posts put in a collage below.
We did a fact check on the circulating image traced them back to 2005 where an #earthquake hit #BalakotAirStrike.
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Claim: Several tweeteratis shared images where people can be seen burying dead bodies. Handles claim those images from Balakot attack.
Fact: The images are scenes from an earthquake that hit #Kashmir in 2005 where several lost their lives.
Starting Feb 25, 2022, multiple pro-indian social media users started tweeting on Balakot and posted several videos, texts & photos. We came across an image where it shows several dead bodies being buried. Users claimed it as #BalakotSuccess.
We did a fact check on the claimed images and found those images on stock image hosting websites having no connection with any "Air Strike".
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Claim: A collage of broken trees is claimed to be from Balakot and alleged #IndianAirForce for destroying them.
Fact: The images being shared have no connection with any Air Strike. The images are old and are present on stock images hosting websites.
On Feb 26-27, 2022, several social media handles shared a collage of broken trees and claimed it to be from Balakot where on Feb 26, 2019 #India claims to successfully carry out air strikes in Jabba, Balakot.