Author: Sayeed Joy
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16 students test positive for Omicron in India, not Bangladesh
A viral social media post claiming that reads “16 students in school infected with Omicron”, is being shared by social media users in Bangladesh with no mention of details such as date or location. Newschecker has verified that the incident is not from Bangladesh. Fact Check / Verification By conducting a keyword search Newchecker found…
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No, Bangladesh Is Not Excluded From The US Fulbright Scholarships
A social media post, claiming that Bangladesh has been excluded from the list of countries under the Fulbright Scholarship provided by the US government has gone viral on social media. The same was reported by several mainstream newspapers and other media outlets in Bangladesh too. A fact check by Newschecker has found the claim to…
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Image showing man lying at the Dubai airport is not MP Murad Hasan
A picture of a man sleeping on the floor at an airport terminal has gone viral on Facebook and TikTok claiming to show former Minister of State for Information Murad Hasan. The man can be seen wearing a sweatshirt with his face covered sleeping next to two suitcases. The photograph has been taken at what…
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Fact Check: Is 2021 Seeing 5 Consecutive Wednesdays, Thursdays & Fridays For 1st Time In 823 Years?
A video clip of Bangladeshi Islamic speaker Mustafiz Rahmani, claiming that the December of 2021 had five consecutive Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays for the first time in 823 years, is going viral on TikTok. Many similar claims have also been shared on Facebook. Fact Check / Verification By conducting a keyword we found a report…
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Image Of Placard From Students Protest Edited And Shared With False Claim
An image showing a student’s protest, where a banner reads “Unlicensed government, Bangla exemption at the moment” has gone viral on social media websites. We found several posts shared by users on the social networking site Facebook. One such post, shared by user ‘Aikyera Andolana’ has over 1.2k reactions and 54 shares. Fact Check / Verification…
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Videos Of Nepal And Indonesia Earthquake Shared Claiming To Be From Bangladesh
Two videos, claiming to show strong tremors that occured in Bangladesh on November 26,2021 has gone viral on social networking platform TikTok. A fact-check by Newschecker found that the videos are from two different countries and were not of the recent incident. One of the two videos show a crowded intersection, where people are seen…
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Photo Of Prophet Imran’s Grave Falsely Shared As Grave Of Prophet Adam
A video, claiming to be the final resting place of Prophet Hazrat Adam, first man and the first prophet as believed in islam, has gone viral on TikTok. The same video was published by another TikTok user claiming the grave of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH). A fact check by Newschecker has found both claims to be…
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Afghan cricketer Mohammad Shehzad’s Mother died in 2020, not during 2021 T20 World Cup
A video claiming that Afghan cricketer Mohammad Shehzad’s mother passed away while he was in Dubai for the T20 World Cup is going viral on TikTok. A fact check by Newschecker has found the claim to be false. The video has been viewed around 490K times and has 103K Likes so far. Fact Check /…
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Gorilla Doll Passed Off As ‘World’s Darkest Baby’
A viral video claiming to be the ‘darkest baby in the world’ went viral on TikTok recently. The video has been viewed around 218,000 times in a single day of uploading as well as 60,000 likes. A fact check by Newschecker has revealed that the viral video actually shows a gorilla doll, and had gone…
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This Viral Video shows a Malaysian Army exercise, not Bangladesh’s RAB
A viral video recently spotted on TikTok showed several armed men wearing helmets and black uniforms breaking the windows of a bus and entering it. The video claims that these are members of an elite unit of Bangladesh Police called the Rapid Action Battalion or RAB. The video has been viewed about 4.9 million times…