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Latest Fact Checks by Varun Kumar
Health-Covid
Health-Vaccines
False: The orders for child-sized caskets in the U.S. are increasing due to deaths caused by COVID-19 vaccines.
Politics-People
Tech-Social-Media
False: U.S President Joe Biden fell asleep during the Saudi Arabia summit.
Media-General
Politics-People
False: A BBC News report shows that U.K. PM Boris Johnson 'escaped to the sea' after his resignation.
Events-General
Human Rights-Religion
False: A video shows a mob breaking into former BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma's house over her remarks on Prophet Muhammad.
Human Rights-Religion
False: The temples in Tamil Nadu have to pay more for electricity than churches or mosques.
Events-General
Tech-Social-Media
False: A video shows a shooting inside a medical building in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on June 1, 2022.
Economics-Business
Geopolitical-Conflict
Tech-Social-Media
False: An image shows shops in Prague that have put up signs prohibiting Ukrainians from entering.
Events-General
Media-Sports
False: The video shows Argentine fans gathered outside Wembley Stadium in London ahead of a match final on June 1, 2022.
Economics-General
Geopolitical-Policy
Politics-General
Politics-People
Misleading: The Biden administration has shipped pallets of baby formula to migrant holding facilities despite a national shortage.
Events-General
Human Rights-Religion
False: An image shows a 12 foot long Shiva Linga discovered at the Gyanvapi mosque in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh.
Events-General
Politics-General
False: A video shows U.P. Police officers rescuing themselves from an overturned vehicle in a flooded street.
Human Rights-Religion
False: A Dalit man was lynched by a Hindu extremist mob for marrying a Muslim woman in Hyderabad.
Conspiracies-General
Events-Terrorism
False: 7 World Trade Center collapsed in the 9/11 attack because of a bomb inside the building.
Human Rights-Religion
Tech-Social-Media
False: A video shows Muslim men vandalizing Naopara Mahishasur railway station in West Bengal because the train sounds disturbed their namaz.
Events-General
Human Rights-Religion
False: This image shows men with swords in their hands during communal clashes in Delhi.
Geopolitical-Conflict
Geopolitical-Humanitarian
Unverifiable: Russia has sought military and financial aid from China to fight against Ukraine.
Geopolitical-General
Tech-Social-Media
Misleading: Qutub Minar in New Delhi was lit up with the Russian flag after Russia invaded Ukraine.
Events-General
Geopolitical-Conflict
True: A fire broke out at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station in Ukraine.
Geopolitical-Conflict
Politics-General
False: Russia's President Putin told Pakistan's PM Imran Khan that Gilgit-Baltistan should be part of India.
Geopolitical-Conflict
False: This image shows a Russian fighter jet being shot down by the Ukrainian army.
Geopolitical-Conflict
False: The wife of Ukraine's vice president joined the armed forces to fight against Russia's invasion.
Geopolitical-Conflict
False: An Indian flight was scheduled to evacuate Ukrainian women.
Geopolitical-Conflict
Tech-Social-Media
True: A video of Luhansk power plant being bombed in Eastern Ukraine actually shows an explosion in China, 2015.
Health-Covid
Unverifiable: Deltacron is a new COVID-19 variant with the combined characteristics of Delta and Omicron.
Politics-Elections
False: People above the age of 65 years can vote through postal ballots in India.
Politics-Elections
False: A viral video shows Samajwadi Party supporters raising a pro-Pakistan slogan during an election rally in Bithoor, Kanpur.
Economics-Business
Google hired a Bihari named Rituraj with a ₹3.66 crores pay package for hacking its servers.
Health-General
Health-Covid
True: Taking large doses of ivermectin to treat COVID-19 is dangerous and can cause serious harm.
Events-Humanitarian
False: Proceeds from selling Sena Jal bottled water across India are used to help war widows.
Economics-General
True: India's gross GST collection in January 2022 was the highest since the inception of the tax.
Health-General
True: U.S. Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee does not consider cholesterol a nutrient of public health concern.
Human Rights-Religion
Misleading: Sita Road in Pakistan was renamed Rehmani Nagar after the partition of India in 1947.
Health-Covid
Health-Pharma
Health-Vaccines
False: Argentina's drug regulatory body found graphene in the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.
Health-Covid
Health-Vaccines
False: The American author Naomi Wolf is a medical doctor.
Conspiracies-General
Health-Covid
Health-Vaccines
Misleading: The Lancet published an article in November 2021 about 89 percent of new COVID-19 cases occurring among fully vaccinated people in the U.K.
Economics-General
Health-Covid
Health-Pharma
Health-Vaccines
False: WHO has recommended the use of a COVID-19 test kit manufactured by just one company in the world.
Events-General
Geopolitical-Conflict
Partly_True: China unfurled its national flag at Galwan Valley on January 1, 2022.
Economics-Business
Human Rights-Race
False: Tommy Hilfiger did not want Black people to wear his clothing line.
Health-General
Politics-Policy
Disabled government employees over the age of 50 are to be forcibly retired according to a new order passed by the Bihar government.
Health-General
Events-General
Health-Covid
Misleading: A woman based in New York lost custody of her child because she refused to wear a mask in public.
Events-General
Health-Covid
True: Kumbh Mela was a COVID-19 superspreader event.
Health-Covid
Health-Pharma
Health-Vaccines
Misleading: Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine would be unsafe due to the limited time for development and testing.
Conspiracies-General
Health-Covid
Tech-Social-Media
False: COVID-19 came from a lab in China.
Health-Covid
Health-Vaccines
False: The content and composition of the COVID-19 vaccines were not disclosed until November 2021.
Health-Covid
False: You can only get COVID-19 if you sit next to an infected person.
Health-Vaccines
Misleading: The FDA asked a federal judge for a 55-year delay to release data on Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine.
Politics-General
Tech-Crypto
Partly_True: Indian government plans to ban private cryptocurrencies.
Health-Covid
True: There are around 65 containment zones in Hyderabad as on August 12, 2020.
Conspiracies-General
Health-Covid
Health-Vaccines
Misleading: Bill Gates admits COVID-19 mRNA vaccines are not working.
Health-Covid
Health-Vaccines
Politics-General
False: California Governor Gavin Newsom contracted Bell's Palsy after receiving a booster shot of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Economics-General
Geopolitical-Humanitarian
Misleading: U.N. World Food Programme director said two percent of Elon musk's wealth can solve world hunger.
Economics-Business
Misleading: Kroger supermarkets overcharged customers due to a coin shortage.
True: The Committee to Protect Journalists condemned the attack on journalists covering protests in the United States.
Health-Covid
True: The Tanzanian security forces had randomly obtained several non-human samples for COVID-19 test, including from pawpaw, a goat and a sheep, but had assigned them human names and ages.
Economics-General
Politics-Policy
False: In the U.S., Social Security checks will not be deposited during a government shutdown.
Health-Covid
Health-Vaccines
False: Moderna’s mRNA COVID-19 vaccines cause blood clots by changing the shape of red blood cells from round to tubular.
Health-Covid
Health-Vaccines
False: CDC recommends COVID-19 vaccines for 69-year-olds who have Rheumatoid Arthritis.
Health-Covid
Health-Pharma
Politics-Policy
Misleading: It is not possible for people who have received both doses of Covaxin to travel abroad.
Economics-Business
Media-General
False: Iceland Foods has announced it will not have a Christmas TV ad in 2021.
Events-General
Unverifiable: Taliban destroyed the historical fort of Gereshk in Helmand province of Afghanistan.
Events-General
False: Uttar Pradesh's former IPS officer Amitabh Thakur was arrested without a warrant.
Health-Vaccines
Politics-People
Politics-Policy
False: Only vaccinated people will have access to the healthcare system in France, Emmanuel Macron said.
Health-Covid
Partly_True: Silver nanoparticles have a potent antiviral effect on the coronavirus.
Events-General
True: An FBI agent who investigated Governor Gretchen Whitmer's kidnap plot was arrested on charges of assault.
Events-General
Tech-Social-Media
False: A video shows a group of tortoises running around unusually fast.
Politics-General
Politics-Elections
False: The Maricopa County audit determined that Donald Trump won the 2020 election.
Health-Covid
Health-Vaccines
False: Covishield and Covaxin are more effective in dealing with the Delta variant of COVID-19 than other vaccines.
Events-Terrorism
Politics-People
Misleading: A video shows Ashraf Ghani fleeing Afghanistan as the Taliban takes control of the country.
Events-Terrorism
Human Rights-Gender
False: A video shows Taliban militants shooting a woman dead in Afghanistan for stepping out of her house.
Conspiracies-Depopulation
Conspiracies-New World Order
Health-Covid
Health-Vaccines
Vaccines are a means of population control.
Events-Activism
True: Anti-lockdown protestors in Australia attacked police horses.
Health-Covid
Health-Vaccines
Misleading: COVID-19 cases have not risen in European countries, even though most of the population is unvaccinated.
Economics-Business
Politics-General
False: India attracted more FDI than other countries during the pandemic.
Events-Terrorism
True: Autonomous armed groups still operate in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.
Events-General
Human Rights-Religion
False: A man named Ajmal Khan killed a Hindu family in Rajasthan after not being allowed to marry their daughter.
Events-General
Human Rights-Religion
Tech-Social-Media
A man named Ajmal Khan killed a Hindu family in Rajasthan after not being allowed to marry their daughter.
Human Rights-Activism
Politics-Policy
New Zealand farmers supported the farmer protests in Delhi.
Health-General
Health-Covid
Misleading: Singapore is treating COVID-19 like the flu.
Economics-Crypto
Biden has proposed IRS disclosure for all crypto transactions.
Health-Covid
False: One cannot stay alive after contracting COVID-19.
Health-Covid
Health-Vaccines
False: Receiving a COVID-19 vaccine triggers a potentially lethal reaction.
Health-Covid
True: COVID-19 infection rates are increasing across the U.K.
Health-Covid
Health-Pharma
Health-Vaccines
False: Pfizer has applied for FDA approval to vaccinate 5-year-olds.
Geopolitical-General
Health-Covid
Health-Vaccines
Politics-General
False: The U.S. and Canada are the only countries offering lotteries to reward people vaccinated against COVID-19.
Conspiracies-General
Health-Covid
Health-Vaccines
False: COVID-19 vaccines are satanic because they contain the component 'Luciferin.'
Health-Covid
False: The coronavirus is the deadliest virus known to humans.
Events-General
Media-General
False: A Norwegian woman gave birth to a human-elephant hybrid.
Human Rights-General
Politics-Policy
True: A new law requires universities in Florida to survey the political views of faculty and students.
Politics-General
Politics-Elections
False: U.S. politicians are refusing to release footage of the Capitol riots.
Conspiracies-General
Unverifiable: Bill Gates sought marital advice from Jeffrey Epstein.
Human Rights-Religion
False: Indian Medical Association is a Christian missionary organization.
Health-Covid
Health-Vaccines
Politics-Policy
True: West Virginia is offering free guns to those who get vaccinated against COVID-19.
Health-General
Conspiracies-5G
Tech-5G
False: 5G networks cause cancer in humans.
Health-Covid
False: COVID-19 can be transmitted through mosquitoes.
Health-Covid
Health-Vaccines
Politics-Policy
Misleading: People who are vaccinated against COVID-19 can receive free marijuana in the U.S.
Health-Covid
Health-Vaccines
Partly_True: Blood clots are up to ten times more common in people infected with COVID-19 than those vaccinated against it.
Health-Covid
Health-Pharma
Health-Vaccines
True: The FDA has approved the emergency use of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for children aged 12 to 15.
Health-Covid
Health-Pharma
Health-Vaccines
Misleading: India's Covaxin generates fewer antibodies against the B.1.617 strand of COVID-19 than other forms of the virus.
Health-Covid
Media-General
Politics-General
False: Applying cow dung all over the body can prevent one from contracting COVID-19.
Health-Covid
Health-Vaccines
False: The American Red Cross will not accept convalescent plasma donations from people who have received the COVID-19 vaccine.
Health-Covid
Health-Vaccines
Politics-Policy
False: A fourth stimulus payment limited to Americans vaccinated against COVID-19 to be announced.
Geopolitical-Policy
True: Interpreters who helped the British Army in Afghanistan cannot resettle in the UK if they are dismissed.
Politics-Elections
False: Trinamool Congress supporters celebrated election victory by brandishing knives, swords, and guns.
Health-Covid
Health-Vaccines
Politics-General
False: The central government has not supplied COVID-19 vaccines to Maharashtra.
Health-Covid
Politics-Policy
Misleading: Eight oxygen generation plants are being installed in Delhi.
Health-General
Health-Covid
False: The practice of wearing facemasks can cause hypoxia, compromising safety from COVID-19.
Politics-Elections
Colorado requires photo ID to vote in person.
Health-Covid
Politics-Policy
Partly_True: Andrew Cuomo's order on care homes led to an increase in deaths.
Politics-General
Politics-Policy
Misleading: While there were 58 motions between 1917 and 1971 to break filibusters, it was five times more in 2020 alone.
Human Rights-Religion
Politics-Policy
False: A California bill could ban conservative Christians from serving as police.
Human Rights-Activism
Politics-People
Unverifiable: Prime Minister Narendra Modi took part in satyagraha for Bangladesh
Events-General
Politics-Policy
True: The Netherlands has closed more than 23 of its prisons since 2004.
Geopolitical-General
Health-Covid
Health-Vaccines
False: Pakistan will receive 45 million doses of Covaxin from India.
Health-Covid
Politics-General
False: The World Health Organization approved Coronil as a COVID-19 treatment.
Events-General
Human Rights-Gender
True: A man was shot dead in Uttar Pradesh because he filed a complaint against sexually harassing his daughter.
Health-Covid
False: Only 15 states in the U.S. have a statewide mask mandate.
Economics-General
Health-General
True: EpiPens cost at least 10 times more in the US than in other countries.
Politics-Elections
Partly_True: Mamata Banerjee is contesting the elections from Nandigram and Bhawanipore.
Politics-People
Misleading: Joe Biden once said he would not send his children to an integrated school.
Human Rights-Gender
Media-Sports
Politics-General
True: Sixteen U.S. states currently allow transgender high school athletes to compete without restrictions.
Politics-Policy
Misleading: Republicans are planning to reduce the minimum wage from $11 to $10.
Media-General
False: Disha Ravi is a single mother.
Events-General
Geopolitical-Conflict
False: Soldiers discarded their uniforms, defying the Myanmar military coup.
Climate-People
Conspiracies-General
False: Greta Thunberg’s real name is Ghazala Bhat.
Economics-General
Politics-Policy
Misleading: New farmers’ bills give farmers the freedom to sell outside APMCs and above MSP.
Economics-General
Politics-Policy
Misleading: Statuses of APMCs and MSPs are guaranteed in the new farmers’ bills.
Human Rights-General
Politics-Policy
Misleading: Democrats will take away Americans' gun rights.
Climate-People
Events-General
False: Delhi Police registered an FIR against climate activist Greta Thunberg.
Events-General
Human Rights-General
True: Supreme Court stays Bombay High Court's order on groping a minor without "skin to skin" contact is not sexual assault.
Economics-General
False: The Reserve Bank of India will invalidate the old ₹5, ₹10, and ₹100 currency notes by April 2021.
Economics-General
False: The Reserve Bank of India will invalidate the old ₹5, ₹10, and ₹100 currency notes by April 2021.
Health-Covid
Health-Pharma
Health-Vaccines
A consortium of 190 countries has booked two billion doses of Covaxin.
Politics-Policy
True: In his first few days, Biden may cancel the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline.
Politics-General
Politics-Elections
Misleading: Several individuals from the Midwest were fired for supporting Trump.
Human Rights-General
Politics-People
Tech-Social-Media
False: Kamala Harris called for the age of consent to be lowered to 12.
Health-Covid
Health-Vaccines
False: A nurse died after being given the COVID-19 vaccine.
Events-Activism
Politics-General
False: The chiefs of the three Indian armed services have declined to intervene in the ongoing farmers' protest.
Economics-Business
Media-General
True: Coca-Cola played a part in Santa’s iconic red image.
Politics-People
True: The Trump tax fraud investigation in New York involves millions of dollars paid to Ivanka.
Health-Covid
Health-Vaccines
False: People have died after taking the COVID-19 vaccine.
Health-Covid
Health-Vaccines
False: Six people died as a result of the COVID-19 vaccine trials of Pfizer and BioNTech.
Politics-People
Politics-Policy
False: President Trump is above the law.
Tech-Social-Media
Tech-Business
False: Yahoo is closing its Yahoo Mail services.
Politics-Policy
False: Taxation policy would not drastically change for his rich donors under Biden's administration.
Health-Covid
Health-Vaccines
Media-Celebrities
True: Dolly Parton supported the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine research with a $1 million donation.
Health-General
Health-Covid
True: The data presented to justify a second national lockdown in England was incorrect.
Politics-People
Misleading: MP & MLA Somabhai said Shah paid him and other Congress MLAs crores to resign.
Health-General
Health-Covid
True: The UK is the first country in Europe to pass 50,000 deaths due to COVID-19.
Politics-Elections
Politics-People
False: Biden gets campaign funds from a person who is a supporter of the current anti-American regime in Iran.
Politics-Elections
Politics-Policy
False: Votes counted after Election Day are not legitimate.
Health-Covid
Health-Vaccines
Misleading: Covid-19 vaccine, Pfizer is ready to roll-out
Health-General
Health-Covid
Health-Vaccines
False: mRNA vaccination is likely to cause genetic defects.
Human Rights-Gender
Politics-General
Politics-People
Misleading: Joe Biden called Trump supporters "the dregs of society.”
Health-Covid
Health-Vaccines
Politics-General
Misleading: White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows conceded that the Trump administration had given up in containing the coronavirus crisis.
Events-General
True: Trick-or-treating has existed since medieval times.
Politics-People
Politics-Policy
Partly_True: Kamala Harris wants to legalize prostitution.
Events-Terrorism
Partly_True: SIMI has been rebranded as Indian Mujahideen.
Human Rights-General
Politics-General
Partly_True: UK government has provided Security Industry Authority (SIA) licenses to illegal immigrants.
Politics-People
False: There is a rape charge against Donald Trump involving a minor.
Geopolitical-Conflict
Politics-General
True: Nepal halts the distribution of new textbook with revised maps incorporating Indian areas.
Events-General
Health-Covid
True: The restrictions under section 144 of CrPC are reimposed in Mumbai.
Health-General
Health-Covid
False: COVID-19 has been completely eliminated in the United States.
Media-Sports
Tech-Social-Media
Partly_True: Virat Kohli becomes the first Asian celebrity ever to get more than 10 million likes for an Instagram post.
Health-General
Geopolitical-General
Human Rights-General
True: The United Kingdom operates double standards on banned pesticides.
Media-General
False: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan's wife Bushra Bibi has supernatural powers.
Economics-Business
Events-General
True: An international airport near Mysuru has been proposed.
Events-General
Partly_True: The platform ticket in the Pune railway station is ₹50.
Events-General
Media-Celebrities
Misleading: The Enforcement Directorate has released the call log details of Rhea Chakraborty.
Health-General
Health-Covid
False: Drinking ginger juice with black pepper powder and honey would cure novel coronavirus.
Events-General
Tech-General
True: American Astronauts returned to space in an American rocket for the first time in nearly 10 years.
Events-General
Health-Covid
True: A lockdown would be imposed in West Bengal's Siliguri on September 7, 2020.
Health-Covid
Tech-General
True: A schoolboy from Jammu built the 'COVID Care Jammu' website.
Health-Covid
False: India is surpassing to become the world's new coronavirus epicenter.
Health-General
Politics-People
False: Donald Trump had a stroke in November 2019.
Events-General
Geopolitical-General
Tech-Business
True: Infosys plans to hire 12,000 American workers in the next two years.
Politics-People
True: Jawaharlal Nehru's favorite brand was 555 Cigarette.
Human Rights-Religion
Tech-Social-Media
True: Facebook ignored its hate speech rules for BJP linked Anti-Muslim posts.
Health-Covid
False: COVID-19 is not a real disease.
Health-General
False: Kim Jong Un is under coma.
Health-Covid
True: Children with a history of COVID-19 are returning to hospitals with hyperinflammatory and Kawasaki syndromes in Bengaluru.
Economics-General
Health-Covid
True: People on low incomes in the UK COVID-19 hotspots to be paid if self-isolating.
Media-Sports
Misleading: Zion Williamson is injured and has left the NBA's bubble.
Media-General
Politics-People
Yogi Adithyanath is rated as the best Chief Minister in India.
Events-General
True: After the Beirut explosion, Tamil Nadu's stockpile of ammonium nitrate in India is on the CBIC radar.
Events-General
Media-Celebrities
True: CBI filed a case against Rhea Chakraborty and five family members into Rajput’s death.
Health-Covid
True: Easing restrictions too quickly can increase the spread of COVID-19 infection.
Events-General
Media-Celebrities
True: Dubai crown prince does not use his car after a bird built a nest in it.
Human Rights-General
Human Rights-Race
Media-General
Partly_True: At least 1,072 migrants were abandoned at the edge of Greece's water territory by Greek officials.
Tech-General
Tech-Social-Media
False: A WhatsApp video called 'Argentina is doing it' will hack the phone in 10 seconds.
Health-Covid
Health-Pharma
Health-Vaccines
Misleading: Covaxin is used to treat COVID-19.
Health-Covid
False: COVID-19 is not a real disease.
Media-General
Tech-Social-Media
False: Air Commodore Hilal Ahmed Rather flew one of the five Rafale jets which reached India from France on July 29.
Events-General
Misleading: A man from Kolkata was seen wrapped in a Pakistani flag and standing on an Indian flag.
Events-General
Health-Covid
False: A Shark Tank episode from 2009 predicted the 2020 pandemic.
Geopolitical-General
Tech-Social-Media
False: France bode farewell to Rafales jets destined for India, forming the Tricolour in the skies.
Health-Covid
Human Rights-General
Certain hospitals in Mumbai are running organ trafficking rackets during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Geopolitical-General
True: The five Rafale fighter jets arrived in India.
Events-General
Geopolitical-Conflict
True: Chinese diplomats burnt documents after Trump ordered the closure of Houston consulate.
Health-Covid
N95 masks filter about 85% of tiny particles.
Economics-General
Health-Covid
Partly_True: Fake N95 masks are made of only two fabric layers, while authentic N95 masks have five layers.
Events-General
खोटे: Don't pick up calls from numbers starting with +91140.
Health-Covid
True: Psoriasis injection has been approved for emergency use in treating COVID-19 patients.
Health-Covid
True: Texas Governor Greg Abbott ordered hospitals to postpone elective surgeries to conserve beds for COVID-19 patients.
Tech-Social-Media
Hackers have created a fake TikTok app containing malware to steal data.
Politics-Policy
False: The government has allowed the privatization of Indian Railways.
Health-Covid
True: Tanzanian president shrugs off COVID-19 risk after sending fruit and animal samples for tests.
Geopolitical-General
True: Russia's Vladivostok was previously Haishenwai, which was a part of Chinese land before Russia annexed it.
Health-Covid
False: Bleach kills COVID-19.
Economics-General
False: Wayfair, the furniture company is trafficking children.
Geopolitical-General
Misleading: UPA government wanted to handover Siachen to Pakistan.
Events-General
Misleading: Khushboo Mirza has been appointed as the Director of Indian Space Research Organisation.
Events-General
False: Don't pick up calls from numbers starting with +91140.
Media-Entertainment
False: An image of Batman appears in the 2019 movie Joker.
Media-General
True: The Indian Army has issued a clarification on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Leh military facility on July 3, 2020.
Events-Activism
Geopolitical-General
True: The crew of Apollo 15 placed an aluminum sculpture called Fallen Astronaut on the moon.
Events-General
Tech-Business
True: Facebook, Google, and Twitter are fighting against disinformation.
Economics-General
Health-Covid
True: India is the second-largest manufacturer of PPE kit in the world.
Economics-General
Events-General
False: A gold mountain worth four-lakh-crore found in India.
Conspiracies-General
Health-Covid
Tech-Business
Misleading: Apple and Google have inserted the COVID-19 tracker on every phone.
Climate-Events
Tech-General
False: A British Airways pilot clicked a photo of a solar eclipse while crossing the Atlantic Ocean.
Events-General
Geopolitical-Conflict
False: North Korea has moved its ships and troops into the Korean Demilitarized Zone.
Events-Activism
Health-Covid
Human Rights-General
False: Delhi and the Uttar Pradesh governments arranged 100 and 200 buses, respectively, to ferry migrants during the COVID-19 lockdown.
Geopolitical-Conflict
Media-General
Tech-Social-Media
False: Thirty Indian Army personnel have been imprisoned by China in Ladakh.
Health-Covid
Tech-Social-Media
False: Drinking tea can cure COVID-19.
Health-Covid
Politics-Policy
False: Lockdown due to COVID-19 has been extended in Maharastra.
Health-General
Partly_True: Using hand sanitizer for 50 to 60 days increases the chances of getting cancer and skin diseases.
Events-General
True: Ilha da Queimada Grande, an island in Brazil is untouched by humans because it is teeming with snakes.
Events-General
Health-Covid
True: While around 1,500 attendees left the congregation, over 1,000 people continued to stay at the Tablighi Jamaat’s Markaz even after a 21-day nationwide lockdown in India was imposed on 24 March 2020.
Health-Covid
Human Rights-Religion
Hindu youths who pretended to be Muslims with coronavirus infection escaped the check post at Tendekere in Mandya district.
Health-Covid
False: Applying olive oil in nostrils is an effective treatment for COVID-19.
Health-Covid
Health-Vaccines
Misleading: Japan has successfully developed a vaccine for COVID-19 called Avigan.
Human Rights-Religion
False: Muslim men in Punjab held up their Aadhaar cards, saying they were of no use in the crisis that they are facing.
Events-General
Health-Covid
True: Razia Begum, a Telangana woman rode 1400 km on a two-wheeler to bring back her son who was stranded in Andhra Pradesh.
Health-Covid
Politics-General
True: President Trump said that the coronavirus started in China and called it a foreign virus in his remarks.
Health-General
Health-Covid
False: The man behind Hydroxychloroquine is a well-known Indian Scientist Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray.
Health-General
Health-Covid
False: Belgium bans non-essential sexual activities to combat the spread of Covid-19.
Unverifiable: "Nothing has happened, they will have to wait for four more years," said U.T. Khader.
Health-Covid
True: 19-year-old pizza delivery boy tested positive for COVID-19 in Delhi.
Conspiracies-General
Health-Covid
False: A viral video claims to be of some countries have thrown infected COVID-19 bodies in the sea and warns to stop eating seafood.
False: A black hole was discovered by Modi's Mission Shakti.
Events-General
Health-Covid
False: A herd of deer is lounging on an empty Ooty-Coimbatore road after COVID-19 lockdown.
True: Congress posts wrong image to wish Indian Navy Day which BJP had shared as well in 2017.
Health-Covid
Human Rights-General
True: Around 70,000 more soldiers have been deployed in South Africa to help enforce the lockdown due to the pandemic.
Events-General
Media-Sports
True: The Union of European Football Associations has confirmed the women’s Euro 2021 tournament has been postponed to July 2022.
Unverifiable: Boris Johnson hides in the 'fridge' to avoid a Piers Morgan interview.
False: Narendra Modi's Government passed a new law that allows women to kill rapists.
Events-General
Health-Covid
Misleading: A Pakistani leader was killed in celebratory firing after he was released from a hospital following his recovery from Covid-19.
Health-Covid
False: Breathing in the smoke of fire or fireworks will kill the COVID-19.
Economics-General
Politics-General
True: More jobs were created in the last three years of the Obama administration than the first three years of Donald Trump's administration in the United States of America.
Health-Covid
Misleading: Disaster Management Act, 2005 restricts citizens to post updates on COVID-19.
Politics-General
False: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal joins hands with Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan.
Economics-General
Politics-General
False: Alcohol to be delivered online in Madhya Pradesh under the new excise policy.
Events-Humanitarian
Health-Covid
False: The Golden Temple in Amritsar is bearing the total cost of ventilators and PPE kits for the state of Punjab.
Events-General
Geopolitical-General
Health-Covid
False: People in Italy have thrown all of their money on the streets saying that it cannot save them from death due to the coronavirus outbreak.
Health-Covid
Media-Sports
False: Cristiano Ronaldo has been converting his hotels into hospitals amid the coronavirus outbreak.
Health-General
True: A single sneeze travels 100 miles per hour and shoots about 100,000 germs into the air.
Geopolitical-General
Media-General
False: China hacked the Pentagon to ensure only incompetent officers get promoted.
Conspiracies-General
Media-Celebrities
Misleading: Nicolas Cage collects skulls and haunted houses.
Health-General
Health-Covid
False: Alcohol can kill 2019 novel coronavirus.
Politics-General
Misleading: Joe Biden said he is an O'Biden-Bama Democrat during a campaign event in Missouri.
Partly_True: China is Israel's No. 1 trade partner in Asia and No. 3 in the world, with bilateral trade reaching more than $13 billion in 2017.
Health-Covid
True: COVID-toes is a real symptom of COVID-19.
Economics-Business
False: Coca Cola only sold 25 bottles in the first year.
Health-General
Politics-People
Misleading: Elizabeth Warren changed her position on universal health care during the primary.
True: The NSE Nifty edged 23 points down on 31 May 2019 to settle below the 12,000-mark.
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