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☆ Fact Check: Miscaptioned video of Kim Jong Un does not mention Biden or Israel-Hamas war
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-25 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

The clip shows Kim speaking at a military parade in 2020, but he did not discuss the Israel-Hamas or Russia-Ukraine wars, nor mention Biden or former President Trump, according to a transcript of the speech. “I’m afraid that if the Biden admin does not cease to exist in the next election, World War 3 may begin. I support Donald Trump for President in 2024. An English transcript of the full speech, published by the National Committee on North Korea, a U.S. non-governmental organization, does not include the terms “Biden,” “Trump,” “Israel,” “Palestine,” “Russia” or “Ukraine.”VERDICTFalse. A video with fabricated subtitles falsely claims to show Kim Jong Un criticizing Joe Biden and expressing support for Donald Trump ahead of the 2024 U.S. presidential election.

Persons: Kim Jong, Joe Biden, Republican Donald Trump, Kim, Biden, Trump, “, Donald Trump, ” “ Trump, ”, Kim Jong Un, Read Organizations: North, U.S, Republican, Reuters, People's Army, Workers ' Party of Korea, National Committee, Thomson Locations: Israel, Russia, Ukraine, Palestine, North Korea, U.S, ”

☆ Fact Check: Image of Atletico Madrid fans holding giant Palestinian flag is fake
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-24 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

A fake image showing Atletico Madrid supporters displaying a giant Palestinian flag in their home stadium is being shared with the claim that it was a gesture of solidarity made by the Spanish football club amid the Israel-Hamas war in October 2023. The fabricated image, likely generated using AI, does not show a real event and the account that shared it is not associated with the football club, according to an Atletico Madrid official. “Atletico Madrid fans support Palestine,” reads one post with over 1.7 million views on messaging platform X, formerly known as Twitter, sharing the image showing a giant Palestinian flag in the Civitas Metropolitan Stadium filled with fans wearing Atlético de Madrid jerseys. The fake image is being shared amid reports of a call from Scottish club Celtic’s fan group, Green Brigade, to fly the Palestinian flag on Oct. 25 during their Champions League match against Atletico Madrid. The image of Atletico de Madrid fans holding a giant Palestinian flag at a match is fabricated.

Persons: Israel, Atlético, ” @AtletiHouse, Juan Jose Anaut, Siwei, Atletico’s, Read Organizations: Atletico Madrid, Spanish, “ Atletico Madrid, Madrid, Facebook, Palestinian, Civitas Metropolitano, Atletico Madrid’s, Reuters, Computer Science, Engineering, University at Buffalo, Real Sociedad, Atletico’s, Green Brigade, Champions League, Atletico de Madrid, Thomson Locations: Israel, Gaza, Palestine, Civitas, Madrid’s Civitas, Palestinian

☆ Fact Check: Black flag raised by Iranian shrine for mourning occasions
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-23 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Posts on Facebook and messaging platform X, formerly known as Twitter, featured a photo of the black flag atop the shrine’s dome. Many wrote that the black flag was raised over the shrine for the “first time in history”. However, the Imam Reza shrine has raised the black flag before and routinely does so as a sign of mourning. “The shrine in Mashhad also does it more generally to mark mourning.”Reuters contacted the Imam Reza Holy Shrine for comment. The Imam Reza Holy Shrine said it raised a black flag on Oct. 18, 2023 to mourn deaths in the Gaza hospital strike.

Persons: Reza Holy, …, Israel ”, Reza, Imam Hussein, Prophet Mohammad, Imam Ali, ”, Sajjad Rizvi, Imam Reza Holy Shrine, Read Organizations: Facebook, Islamic Republic News Agency, University of Exeter’s Institute of Arab, Islamic, ” Reuters, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Mashhad, Iran, Gaza, U.S, Islam

☆ Fact Check: Al Jazeera not affiliated with X account making Gaza hospital claim
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-20 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

A person claiming to be an Al Jazeera journalist on social media, who said Hamas was responsible for a deadly explosion at a Gaza hospital, is not affiliated with Al Jazeera, the news outlet told Reuters. “Even Al Jazeera journalist acknowledges that the rocket that hit the Gazan hospital came from inside Gaza,” said one X account sharing the post. Al Jazeera also said on X: “The X / Twitter account @_Faridakhan falsely claims Al Jazeera affiliation. Reuters did not find any bylines attributed to Farida Khan on the Al Jazeera website. Editor's note: This story has been corrected to remove reference to the quantity of posts on the @_faridakhan X account and the timing of the first post.

Persons: Al Jazeera, @_Faridakhan, “, Farida Khan, Khan, ‘, Jazeera, Al, ”, Read Organizations: Al, Reuters, Hamas, Facebook, AL JAZEERA, Thomson Locations: Al Jazeera, Gaza, Ahli, Arabi, Khan Younis, Hamas, Al, Qatar, Palestine

☆ Fact Check: False claims that Colombia expelled the Israeli ambassador on Oct. 16
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-20 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Colombia’s Foreign Minister Álvaro Leyva clarified on Oct. 16 that the Israeli ambassador to the South American country, Gali Dagan, had not been expelled. Petro responded that day with a message on X, that partly read, “if we have to suspend foreign relations with Israel, we suspend them. I have not said that the Israeli ambassador is expelled,” he posted in Spanish on X, saying Petro should be spoken to with respect when it comes to diplomatic relations. On Oct. 19, Petro said on platform X that he had met with Dagan and the Palestinian ambassador to Colombia Raouf Almalki. Colombia’s Foreign Minister Álvaro Leyva clarified on Oct. 16 that the Israeli ambassador Gali Dagan, had not been expelled from the country.

Persons: Álvaro Leyva, Gali Dagan, Leyva, Dagan, “, ‘, ’, Gustavo Petro, Petro, Petro’s, ”, Israel “, Omar Rafael García Lazo, Colombia Raouf Almalki, Read Organizations: Colombia’s, Hamas, Reuters, Diplomatic Relations, Colombian Foreign Ministry, Colombia’s Foreign, Colombia Raouf, Thomson Locations: American, Gali, Colombia, Gaza, Palestinian, Israel, Warsaw, Vienna, Cuban, Bogota

☆ Fact Check: No evidence of Trump post on ‘Judge Chutney’ after partial gag order
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-20 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

There is no evidence that former U.S. President Donald Trump published a Truth Social post saying that a district judge has “dared to put herself above the first amendment,” despite a screenshot circulating online. The screenshot appears as a post apparently published via Trump’s official Truth Social account (@realDonaldTrump) and reads, in part, “DO YOU THINK I WILL BE GAGGED? While it is true that Trump called the partial gag order “unconstitutional” in a Truth Social post published on Oct. 16, Reuters found no evidence that the all-caps post circulating online ever appeared on his feed. The statement is not found on Trump’s Truth Social account, nor could Reuters find credible reports saying that Trump published the post. There is no evidence that former President Trump posted the statement.

Persons: Donald Trump, “, Tanya Chutkan, Trump, Liz Harrington, Harrington, Read Organizations: Trump, BIDEN, Twitter, Facebook, Reuters, Thomson

☆ Fact Check: Egypt desert convoy clips predate Israel-Hamas war
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-20 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

A video showing two clips of truck convoys are unrelated to the October 2023 Israel-Hamas war, contrary to claims made online that the footage depicts an Egyptian convoy reaching the Gaza border. However, both clips are at least a year old and do not depict current events from the Israel-Hamas war. The Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Gaza, the only direct pathway to Gaza outside of Israel, is heavily restricted. The second clip was filmed as early as Jan. 10, 2022, according to videos posted to TikTok of the same event. Tyre markings on the desert sand correspond with the clip posted on X.

Persons: Rabi Al, Israel, Read Organizations: Twitter, Reuters, Associated Press, Thomson Locations: Israel, Gaza, Defla, Egypt’s, Libya, Rafah, Egypt, U.S, South Senai

☆ Fact Check: Video shows Tajikistan flood survivor, not Gaza child victim
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-20 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

A video of a 7-year-old boy being rescued from an August 2023 flood in Tajikistan has been falsely captioned as showing “a traumatized child in Gaza,” as hundreds of children continue to be caught in the crossfire of the Israel-Hamas war that began on Oct. 7, 2023. “Another traumatized child in Gaza!” reads the caption of a post sharing the dated video on X social media. The report adds that the child was swept away along with members of his family, in a flood on the night of Aug.27 in the village of Choyangaroni Vakhdat. On Aug. 28, Reuters reported that mudslides triggered by heavy rains had killed 13 people in Tajikistan, according to government estimates. The video predates the Israel-Hamas war in October 2023 and according to news reports from September, it shows a boy rescued from a flood in Tajikistan.

Persons: “, Mirzazoda, Read Organizations: Facebook, Radio Free, Radio Liberty, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Tajikistan, Gaza, ”, Israel, Radio Free Europe, Vakhdat, Choyangaroni

☆ Fact Check: Turkish magazine didn’t publish cartoon on Zelenskiy craving ‘attention’
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-20 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

A Turkish satirical magazine cover depicting a scowling Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy asking what he would do to get attention back on himself in the midst of the Israel-Gaza war is fake, despite an image circulating online. The title for the Turkish magazine, LeMan, can be seen across the upper-third of the screenshot. Edition 1647 was actually published on Oct. 18 and does not depict Zelenskiy, nor does it refer to the war between Hamas and Israel. The outlet published the real 1647 edition cover on X on Oct. 19. No such cover was published by the Turkish magazine LeMan.

Persons: Volodymyr Zelenskiy, ”, LeMan, Read Organizations: Twitter, Facebook, Turkish, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Israel, Gaza, LeMan

☆ Fact Check: WSJ did not say US-made bomb caused Gaza hospital blast
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-20 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Claims by social media users that The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) said a U.S.-made bomb was dropped on Al-Ahli al-Arabi Hospital in Gaza are false, a WSJ spokesperson told Reuters. The Oct. 17 blast killed hundreds of people, according to Palestinian authorities. One post on messaging platform X, formerly Twitter, said: “American Wall Street Journal: ‘The bomb that was dropped on Baptist Hospital was an American-made MK-84’.” The post has been viewed more than 594,000 times. WSJ did not report that a U.S. MK-84 bomb was dropped on the Al-Ahli-al-Arabi hospital. This article was produced by the Reuters Fact Check team.

Persons: Read Organizations: Street, Al, Arabi, Reuters, Wall Street, Baptist Hospital, “, U.S, Thomson Locations: U.S, Ahli, Gaza, American, al

☆ Fact Check: Tel Aviv mass protest video predates October 2023 demonstrations
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-20 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Nighttime aerial footage of a mass protest in Tel Aviv in March 2023 is woven into a montage video about demonstrations in response to the Israel-Hamas war in October 2023, misrepresenting the scale of protests in the Israeli city. The first part of the montage (0:00 - 0:12) showing aerial footage of protestors crowding roads is from March 11, 2023 and originally part of a video report by The Telegraph. The YouTube video description says the video shows news reporter Matt Gutman among “dozens of protestors who are demanding Israel do more to find hostages.”There is no evidence of recent mass protests in Tel Aviv involving thousands of people. Local media reported on demonstrations in which “hundreds” demanded the release of abductees held by Hamas. A video montage showing public reaction in Tel Aviv amid the Israel-Hamas war misrepresents the size of protests in October 2023 by including months-old footage of a different mass protest in the city.

Persons: ”, Matt Gutman, abductees, Benjamin Netanyahu, Read Organizations: Facebook, The Telegraph, ” Reuters, ABC, Hamas, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Tel Aviv, Israel

☆ Fact Check: Video shows 2012 attack on police station in Bahrain, not Israel embassy
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-20 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

The video, which shows a crowd of people setting fire to a building at night, was shared in a Facebook post that reads, “BREAKING: The Israeli embassy in Bahrain was just set on fire! The title of the video, translated from Arabic, reads “Bahrain: A police station was besieged and burned – Sitra,” and the caption says the clip shows demonstrators attacking the Sitra Police Station in Nov. 2012. The official also added that claims that the video shows Israel’s embassy in Bahrain are not true. France24 cited AFP witnesses saying dozens of protesters had marched toward the Israeli embassy in Bahrain after the hospital attack. The video shows a 2012 attack on the Sitra Police Station in Bahrain.

Persons: France24, Read Organizations: Sitra, Al, Twitter, Reuters, United Press, Sitra Police, Google, Thomson Locations: Bahrain, Israel, Ahli, Gaza

☆ Fact Check: Video of actors wearing makeup shows filming of documentary
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-20 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

The images circulating on social media, however, are old and unrelated to this month’s escalation in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. They were shared in 2017 by Turkish broadcaster TRT World as part of a segment on Palestinian makeup artist Mariam Salah, who worked on the documentary. At timestamp 00:17 of the TRT World video, two people can be seen with the organization's logo on their backs. TRT World and Doctors of the World did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Reuters. Reuters has previously addressed similar claims involving footage from TRT World and Doctors of the World.

Persons: Mariam Salah, Read Organizations: Hamas, Israel, TRT, Reuters, TRT World, Thomson Locations: Gaza, Palestinian, Israel, Turkish

☆ Fact Check: Video captures Gaza building attack in May 2023, not October
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

A video showing the bombing of a building in Gaza in May 2023 has been shared on social media as if it was filmed during the October 2023 clashes between militant Islamist group Hamas and Israel. Reuters, citing Palestinian officials, reported that an explosion at a Gaza hospital on Oct. 17 killed at least 500 people. The video shows a blast destroying a light orange-colored building surrounded by trees that then collapses in a cloud of smoke and dust. Al Jazeera also shared the video on YouTube on May 13, 2023 and said it shows an attack in Gaza. The video shows an airstrike on a building in May, not October, 2023.

Persons: Chris Osieck, Al Jazeera, Read Organizations: Hamas, Social, Israel, Reuters, Authorities, YouTube, Thomson Locations: Gaza, Israel, Al

☆ Fact Check: IDF did not share Facebook post taking responsibility for Gaza hospital strike
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

The post has now been deleted” read a post sharing the screenshot on messaging platform X, formerly known as Twitter. A Facebook post sharing the screenshot of the imposter post garnered 78 shares and 77 reactions at the time of writing. A spokesperson for the IDF said in an email that the Facebook post was not shared by one of its official accounts. He added there was only one official IDF Facebook page in Arabic that carries a verification tick. IDF did not post on Facebook citing lack of resources as the reason behind the Oct. 17 blast at a hospital in Gaza.

Persons: Israel, ”, Read Organizations: Israel Defense Forces, Reuters, Islamic Jihad, Baptist, Facebook, Twitter, Meta, Thomson Locations: Ahli, Gaza

☆ Fact Check: Video of explosion in Gaza predates Israel's bombardment after Hamas Oct. 7 rampage
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

A video of an explosion in Gaza from May has been falsely claimed online to have been filmed in October. Users on Facebook and messaging platform X, suggested the video showed an Israeli airstrike responding to Hamas’ deadly Oct. 7 attack in southern Israel. Reuters confirmed the location of the video as Al Karameh street in Gaza by comparing trees, lamp posts, and buildings with satellite images found on Google Maps. But the video was filmed at least five months before the Hamas attack. Video of Gaza explosion was filmed at least five months before Hamas’ October attack.

Persons: Read Organizations: Facebook, Reuters, Google, Islamic, Thomson Locations: Gaza, Israel, Karameh

☆ Fact Check: Video of Joe Biden calling for a military draft was created with AI
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

You are sending them to freedom.”A history of the Selective Service System in the United States, also known as “the draft,” can be seen on the government agency's website. The original clip shows Biden speaking about the cost of insulin. Biden’s hand movements match when comparing frames taken from the White House video and screenshots from the altered video. A spokesperson for the White House did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. The White House posted the original, unedited video in December 2021 when Biden spoke on the cost of insulin.

Persons: Joe Biden, Biden’s, trillions, Biden, Jack Posobiec, Read Organizations: Service, Selective Service, Facebook, Hamas, Twitter, Biden, White House, YouTube, White, Reuters, Thomson Locations: United States, Israel

☆ Fact Check: No Gates-sponsored mRNA ‘air vaccine’ approved for use in people
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

The technique has not been approved for any use or testing in humans, according to the study’s senior author. However, a headline that reads, “Bill Gates mRNA 'Air Vaccine' Approved for Use Against Non-Consenting Humans” is circulating in the form of a screenshot on Facebook and messaging platform X, formerly known as Twitter. The formulation developed by the Yale team has neither been approved for human trial nor is it awaiting approval, Saltzman added. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation website, which documents Gates’ vaccine development work and investments, makes no mention of the Yale research. A nasal mRNA vaccine tested in mice by Yale researchers has not been approved for human testing, was not funded by Bill Gates and is not designed to work through the “air.”This article was produced by the Reuters Fact Check team.

Persons: Bill Gates, ”, Mark Saltzman, Saltzman, ” Saltzman, Gates, Melinda Gates, Read Organizations: Yale University, Reuters, Vaccine, Twitter, Goizueta, Biomedical Engineering, Yale’s School of Engineering, Applied Science, Yale, Melinda Gates Foundation, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Thomson

☆ Fact Check: Video of boy crying dates to 2014 in Syria
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-18 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

A video showing a young boy crying was taken in Aleppo, Syria, and dates back to at least 2014, contrary to posts claiming it was taken during the Israel-Hamas war in October 2023. A longer version of the video shows the same scene, including both the Shaam News Network angle and that being shared on social media. Aleppo Media Center said in an email to Reuters that the video being shared is not from Gaza and was shot in Aleppo, Syria back in February 2014, according to their archives. The video was taken in Syria and dates back to 2014. This article was produced by the Reuters Fact Check team.

Persons: Read Organizations: YouTube, Shaam News, Shaam, AMC, Aleppo Media Center, Reuters, Human Rights, Thomson Locations: Aleppo, Syria, Israel, Gaza, Britain

☆ Fact Check: Video of missile strike near Gaza hospital predates October 2023 war
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-18 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

A video of a missile launch captured in Gaza that dates to at least August 2022 has been falsely shared as footage showing a missile that struck Gaza’s Al-Ahli al-Arabi hospital in October 2023. The Palestinian Authority said an Israeli air strike on Oct. 17 killed hundreds of people at the Gaza hospital, while Israel said the blast was caused by a failed rocket launch by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant group. The video was filmed in Gaza, but it predates the air strike in 2023. The hospital that was hit on Oct. 17, 2023, is located around 400 meters away from the municipality complex. Video of apparent missile misfire predates Gaza hospital air strike in October 2023.

Persons: Gaza’s Al, Israel, Read Organizations: Palestinian Authority, Islamic Jihad, Facebook, YouTube, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Gaza, Ahli, Israeli, Israel, Al Jazeera, Municipality, Adel

☆ Fact Check: Kamala Harris eligible to be president despite misleading posts
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-18 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

An Instagram post shares an image that says, “Kamala Harris is NOT a ‘natural born Citizen” per Art II Sec. She is missing 2 of the 3 legs of the ‘natural born Citizen’ test. Kamala can’t be president!”The screenshot goes on to say, “Con Artist Kamala… NOT Natural Born Citizen… NOT Eligible to be President or Vice-President!!! A White House bio also states clearly that Harris’ parents were immigrants from Jamaica and India. Posts suggesting that U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris is ineligible to be president are based on a false claim that Harris is not a “natural born citizen” of the U.S.

Persons: Kamala Harris, ” Harris, ”, “ Kamala Harris, Kamala, ’, Kamala can’t, Kamala …, …, … ” Harris, Harris ’, Harris, “, Donald J, Trump, Michael C, Dorf, Read Organizations: U.S . Constitution, Bay Area, Group, The Mercury News, Cornell Law School Legal, U.S, Senate, Newsweek, Cornell Law School, Reuters, Thomson Locations: United States, U.S, U.S ., Oakland , CA, India, Jamaica, Oakland , California, ”

☆ Fact Check: Clip shows Arma 3 gameplay, not Israel’s laser weapon system
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-18 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

“History : First video of the Israeli Iron Beam, new laser air defense system, intercepting enemy rockets, from today”, reads the caption of a Facebook post sharing the gameplay footage. The video was also misrepresented on X social media, by an account impersonating Mossad, Israel’s intelligence service. Pavel Krizka, public relations manager at Bohemia Interactive, which developed the Arma 3 game, said in an email that the miscaptioned video online contains footage from Arma 3. Reuters Fact Check has previously reported on Arma 3 gameplay footage being misrepresented as authentic war imagery after violence between Hamas and Israel broke out on Oct 7. The video shows gameplay footage from Arma 3, not Israel’s "Iron Beam" intercepting rockets amidst the Israel-Hamas war in 2023.

Persons: Pavel Krizka, Marek Spanel, Israel, Read Organizations: Hamas, Reuters, Bohemia Interactive, Bohemia, Thomson Locations: Israel, Arma

Reuters fact-checking unit has identified numerous cases of social media posts using fake images and information about the Israel-Hamas conflict, and others in which confusion rather than deliberate disinformation appears to have heightened tensions. loading* A video of Russian President Vladimir Putin speaking about Ukraine last year was shared this month with fabricated subtitles warning the U.S. not to interfere in the Israel-Hamas conflict. The sheriff’s office said they were "targeted by the suspect due to them being Muslim and the on-going Middle Eastern conflict involving Hamas and the Israelis". Marc Owen Jones, a disinformation expert and professor at Hamad bin Khalifa University in Qatar, said there was often a rise in disinformation during conflicts. Clearly they seem directed at different audiences, but the combined effect is to muddy the waters about the truth in the conflict," he said.

Persons: Khan Younis, Abu Mustafa, Joe Biden, we’ve, Biden, Farida Khan, Al Jazeera, Jazeera, Vladimir Putin, Pink, Gerald Darmanin, Thierry Breton, Rafi Mendelsohn, Abu Obaidah, Tayyip Erdogan, Marc Owen Jones, Hamad, Stephanie Burnett, Stephen Farrell, Hardik, Abdel Fattah Sherif, Neha Mustafi, Jonathan B Mathew, Nidal, James Mackenzie, Andrew Mills, William Maclean, Angus MacSwan Organizations: REUTERS, Al, Hamas, Reuters, Louvre, Facebook, Meta, YouTube, Israel’s Office, State Attorney, Twitter, Palestine, Hamad bin Khalifa University, Hardik Vyas, Thomson Locations: Gaza, AMSTERDAM, LONDON, Israel, ., Al Jazeera, Ukraine, Guatemala, Israeli, New Zealand, kibbutzes, France, In Illinois, London, Middle, Tehran, Turkey, Qatar, Amsterdam, Bangalore, Jerusalem, Doha

☆ Fact Check: Altered video of crowd at Al-Aqsa Mosque is from April 2023
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-17 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Located at the heart of Jerusalem's walled Old City, the Al-Aqsa Mosque is regarded by Muslims as the third holiest shrine in Islam, following Mecca and Medina. The altered video shows a huge crowd gathered at the compound accompanied by chants in Arabic of “Here I am Aqsa”. Pray for Palestine.”But the audio track is edited and was taken from a May 2021 video. Reuters traced the original video to a Facebook account of an East Jerusalem photographer, Fwaz Tobasy, who shared it on April 17, 2023. The audio in the photographer’s footage from April differs: the Al-Aqsa Mosque muezzin can be heard performing Azan, the call to prayer, while an additional audio track of a religious song is added on top.

Persons: Jerusalem’s, Fwaz Tobasy, Tobasy, Laylat, Read Organizations: Palestine, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Jerusalem’s Al, Aqsa, Palestinian, Israel, Old City, Al, Islam, Mecca, Medina, Masjid Al Aqsa, East Jerusalem

☆ Fact Check: Niger did not hike uranium price to 200 euros per kg after 2023 coup
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-17 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Niger did not raise the price of uranium from 0.80 euros per kilogram to 200 euros per kg following its July 2023 coup, contrary to claims made online. Uranium is traded in an open market and governments do not directly control uranium prices, experts told Reuters. Market data also show that uranium prices were much higher than 0.80 euros per kg before the coup and have not neared 200 euros in the months since. Reuters previously addressed the false claim that Niger banned uranium exports to France and the EU in an August fact check. Niger did not raise the price of uranium from 0.80 euros per kg (0.38 USD per lb) to 200 euros per kg following the July 2023 coup in the West African nation.

Persons: Mohamed Bazoum, Euratom, Jonathan Hinze, UxC, ” Hinze, ”, Kathleen Tanzy, Tanzy, Read Organizations: Uranium, Reuters, Nigerien, Nuclear Association, European Union, Facebook, P, Commodity, EU, Thomson Locations: Niger, Russia, France, West African

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