Category: International

A video is being viral on social media allegedly depicting a Mauritius plane carrying 220 Hajj Pilgrims crashing and sinking into the Red Sea.  You can see one such social media post here:  FB Post Archived Link  The Facebook post mentions:  “Hajj Plane crashes in the Red Sea. All 220 Hajj pilgrims killed.” However, Fact […]

False claims that Angola has become the first African Country to ban Islam and has been demolishing mosques illegally built across the country have been surfacing on social media since almost a decade.  Recently also, multiple posts claiming that Angola banned Islam and is destroying mosques are being circulated on social media.  You can see […]

An old image is being shared to claim that it shows Union flag at the Buckingham Palace hoisted at half-mast. An image of the Union flag at Buckingham Palace at half-mast has gone viral on social media. Users who shared the image claimed it was recently taken, and some speculated that it may signify that […]

This is an old video from Shahi Bazar, located in Pakistan. It has no connection to Bradford in the U.K A video showing a crowded street with several women in burqas and men in kurtas is being shared as one from the British city of Bradford in the United Kingdom and is widely circulating on […]

The person in the viral image with Taylor Swift is not Jeffrey Epstein, but Monte Lipman, the CEO of Republic Records. An image of American singer and songwriter Taylor Swift with her arm around a man is going viral on social media. The users who share the image claim that the man to be American financier and […]

The viral video is old; it shows a Nike store was looted in Chicago in United States, following the protests of George Floyd’s death in 2020.  Black Friday is the Friday after Thanksgiving in the United States. It traditionally marks the start of the Christmas shopping season in the United States. Many stores offer highly […]

The viral video shows floods in Zaragoza, Spain in July 2023, not from recent flood in Libya. Thousands of people were killed and at least 10,000 were missing in Libya in floods caused by a huge Mediterranean storm that burst dams, swept away buildings and wiped out as much as a quarter of the eastern […]

The viral video shows a building collapse in the Moroccan city of Casablanca in August 2020. A strong earthquake of magnitude 6.8 has struck central Morocco, killing more than 2,000 people and causing severe damage in several areas. The epicentre of the earthquake was in the High Atlas Mountains, southwest of the city of Marrakesh. After the […]

On 8 September 2023, a strong earthquake of 6.8 magnitude hit the southwest region of Morocco. According to the latest report, around 2,000 people lost their lives and 2059 people were seriously injured. A rescue operation had been initiated to take out the people trapped under the ruins.  In the backdrop of this, a video […]

A video of a few police personnel trying to catch a woman is going viral on social media. It can be seen in the video that the woman is holding knives in both of her hands. Police are trying to catch her with shields and plastic boxes. It was claimed that this incident was from […]

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) achieved a milestone on 23 August as the Vikram lander from Chandrayaan-3 successfully touched down on the Moon’s surface. India has become the first country to successfully land in the southern polar region of the Moon and the fourth one to achieve a soft landing on the Moon, after the US, […]

A fire accident video from UAE is being shared as Muslims rioting and setting buildings on fire in France. A series of civil disturbances in France began on 27 June 2023 following the killing of Nahel Merzouk by a police officer. In Nanterre, residents started a protest outside the police headquarters on 27 June, which […]

The viral video shows a Louis Vuitton store was vandalized in Portland in United States, following the protests of George Floyd’s death in 2020.  Riots started in Nanterre, a suburb of France’s Paris, after the police shot a 17-year-old boy named Nahel during a traffic stop. As many as 40,000 police personnel and riot officers […]

Recently, a video of a clash between groups of people went viral on social media. We can see mobs thrashing each other with sticks in the streets. Social media users are claiming that this clash took place in France where locals are fighting with the migrants.  However, fact Crescendo found the claim to be false. […]

An old video of a 2014 assault between two women in New Jersey.  A disturbing video of a lady being brutally assaulted is going viral on social media. Many people on social media claimed that a Black man beat up a White woman in a park in front of her terrified children in the video. […]