We fact check and explain claims in U.S. news and online, so you can understand what’s really going on.
Europe
A video shared with claims it shows a protest in Albania against a proposed coastal development plan backed by Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner is actually footage of football fans celebrating in Spain. Read
United States
We asked media forensics experts to analyse the “never-before-seen clip”. Read
United States
A fake image which appears to show shooting suspect Cole Tomas Allen with the British political activist Tommy Robinson has been shared online. Read
Conflict
A clip of a 2016 military exercise, which saw the US, Canada, Australia and South Korea sink the decommissioned USS Thach, has been shared with false claims it shows Iranian missiles hitting US ships. Read
Conflict
An old video of a helicopter on fire in Syria is circulating online with false claims it shows an American Black Hawk being shot down. Read
Conflict
A picture circulating on social media with claims it depicts the aftermath of Iranian strikes on an American base isn’t genuine. Read
Conflict
While there have been reports of Iranians forming human chains around major infrastructure, a widely shared image apparently showing the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant was made with AI. Read
Science & Technology
A viral picture claiming to show the moon's Orientale Basin photographed by the Artemis II crew isn’t genuine. It contains an AI watermark and does not match real NASA photos of the crater. Read
Conflict
The US did sign and ratify the original four Geneva Conventions but didn’t ratify some later protocols. Read
Science & Technology
The picture, which appears to depict Earth as seen from the window of the Orion spacecraft, has almost certainly been generated with AI. Read
