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Posts falsely claim Hurricane Helene appeared suddenly on ...
WEB4 days ago · As the deadly Hurricane Helene caused massive flooding across the southeast United States in late September 2024, online posts claimed the storm appeared out of thin air, right before making its landfall in Florida. Meteorologists told AFP this is false; they had tracked the storm's path for days and the radar images shared on social media are not …
Walz campaign rally remarks misrepresented online | Fact Check
WEB4 days ago · The latest narrative is similarly inaccurate. Walz gave the remarks to a crowd in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania on September 21, 2024. He did utter the quote circulating on social media, but the full-length video makes clear it was not aimed at his running mate (archived here and here). WATCH: Walz speaks at campaign rally in Bethlehem, …
Video shows Hurricane Ian, not Helene | Fact Check
WEB4 days ago · A car in a flooded street is seen after Hurricane Helene made landfall in Atlanta, Georgia on September 27, 2024 (AFP / Richard PIERRIN) But the video shared on X is unrelated to Hurricane Helene. A watermark on the clip says "Max Olson Chasing." Olson, a self-described "storm chaser," originally posted the segment September 29, …
Experts warn against social media trend promoting banana peel ...
WEB1 day ago · Health hacks and medical marvels feature prominently on social media, with homemade remedies and concoctions touted as miracle cures despite their lack of scientific backing. Videos circulating in Nigeria claim a “natural recipe” of banana peels and other domestic household ingredients is the best way to whiten teeth. However, experts …
Photo of US-Japan military drills misrepresented as 'standoff ...
WEB3 days ago · Next article Previous article. An old image of a joint US-Japan military drill has been falsely shared as showing a standoff between Chinese and US vessels near a disputed shoal in the South China Sea in September 2024. The 2017 picture was featured as a thumbnail for a video -- viewed hundreds of thousands of times -- posted by a …
Decades-old image shows airshow collision, not 'US fighter ...
WEB4 days ago · An image of a mid-air accident at an airshow in the United Kingdom has been shared in social media videos that falsely claimed it showed a US fighter jet shot down over the Black Sea. While a US-made F-16 -- supplied to Ukraine by its Western allies -- crashed during a combat mission in August 2024, the image shows a Russian MiG-29 that …