Sanjeeb Phuyal
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Fact Check: Viral Video Falsely Claims Bill Gates Warned Those Who Resist mRNA Tsunami Will Be Excluded From Society
Claim Bill Gates said that people who resist ‘mRNA’ Tsunami will be excluded from society and that a ‘Tsunami of mRNA is coming’ Fact The Microsoft co-founder has never made such a statement, rather chief scientific officer of Moderna, Melissa J Moore once used the phrase ‘tsunami of mRNA medicines’ in her 2022 TED Talk.…
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Fact Check: Viral Video Claiming To Show Ram Kirtan In Saudi Arabia Is Misleading
ClaimViral video purportedly shows Muslims singing Ram Kirtan in mosques of Saudi Arabia. FactThe viral clips actually show Muslim devotees singing Kirtan at Sai Baba Ashram in Karnataka state of India. A video claiming to show Ram Kirtan being held in Mosques in Saudi Arabia is going viral on TikTok. TikTok user @user9828115385380 posted a video…
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Fact Check: Viral Video Falsely Claims US Soldiers Set To Flock To Nepal With The Implementation of MCC
ClaimA news report informing that US soldiers are all set to arrive in Nepal in droves with the implementation of MCC and that CPN-UML Chairman Oli has suffered an accidentFactThe images used in the viral video shows a delegation of US Congress meeting President Poudel on September 1. The image allegedly showing KP Oli’s vehicle…
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Fact Check: Viral Video Falsely Claims The Key Scientist Behind Chandrayaan-3 Is A Nepali, India Hid His Contribution
ClaimThe key scientist behind Chandrayaan-3 is a Nepali, India hid his contribution.FactNirupam Sharma is a Nepali-speaking Indian from Mirik of Darjeeling in West Bengal state. He is not the key scientist behind Chandrayaan. At a time when India is celebrating the successful landing of the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft near the moon’s south pole, a video claiming…
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Fact Check: Old & Unrelated Videos Falsely Shared As Pro-Hindu Rally In Dharan
ClaimVideos show pro-Hindu rally organised in Dharan.FactViral videos show an old religious congregation organised in Birgunj and an annual Hindu festival celebrated in the Indian state of Odisha. Even as the planned mass gathering by pro-Hindu groups in Dharan sub-metropolitan city in Sunsari district passed off peacefully on August 26, several videos purportedly showing a…
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Fact Check: Clip From British Movie 1917 Falsely Shared As Russia-Ukraine War
ClaimViral clip shows a scene from the battlefield of ongoing war between Russia and UkraineFactViral is a clip from British war movie 1917 At a time when the Russia-Ukraine war that broke out in February 2022 shows no sign of ending, a viral video purportedly showing a scene from the ongoing war between Russia and…
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Fact Check: An Edited Video Of India’s Chandrayaan-3 Falsely Shared As A Russian Missile Donated To Nepal
ClaimViral video shows a missile being donated to Nepal by RussiaFactThe image carried in the viral video actually shows the Chandrayaan-3 rocket at the launch pad in Andhra Pradesh, India Even as the Russian government is showing keenness to increase its ties with Nepal at multiple levels, a 15-second video claiming to show a missile…
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Fact Check: Edited Viral Video Falsely Claims Actor Sunny Deol Attacked And PM Modi Vowed To Book Perpetrators
ClaimBollywood actor Sunny Deol attacked and Prime Minister Narendra Modi assured to punish the perpetrators.FactViral video is edited by linking Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 2019 speech assuring to punished the perpetrators of Pulwama terror attack. At a time when Bollywood movie Gaddar 2, starring actors Sunny Deol and Ameesha Patel, is doing incredibly well at…
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Fact Check: Ex-CJ Sushila Karki Proposed Balen Shah As Future Prime Minister? Viral Video Is Misleading
ClaimFormer Chief Justice Sushila Karki urges politicians proposes KMC mayor Balendra Shah as Nepal’s future Prime Minister.FactNo ex-CJ Karki only said that senior politicians should step down and give chance to the younger generation to run the country A viral video claiming to show former Chief Justice Sushila Karki addressing a programme where she allegedly…
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Fact Check: Preparations Underway To Deploy US Army In Nepal? Viral Video Is Edited
ClaimPreparations underway to deploy the United States Army in NepalFactViral video is made up by editing unrelated images and footage to create false narrative A video claiming that preparations are being made to deploy the United States (US) soldiers in Nepal in the name of Millennium Challenge Corporation is being shared on TikTok. The video…