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India Today
15 hours ago
- India Today
Fact Check: Viral video of jet being shot down is Russian — NOT an Israeli F-35!
Iran claimed it successfully took down three Israeli F-35 fifth-generation stealth jets. While Israel denied Tehran's claim, a video now going viral purports to show just that. Many shared a video of a fighter jet shooting down another one in a dogfight, alleging the latter was an Israeli Today Fact Check, however, found that the viral video shows a Russian SU-25 mistakenly shooting down its PROBE Responding to the viral post, several people pointed out that the viral video did not show an Israeli F-35 jet but a Russian SU-25 being accidentally hit by friendly fire in Ukraine.A reverse search of keyframes from the viral clip led us to the same video, shared on YouTube on June 13, with the title: 'FRIENDLY FIRE: Russian Su-25 shot down by its own wingman.' We also found several news reports from June that featured the viral video. As per the Daily Express, the video showed a Russian SU-25 fighter mistakenly shooting down his wingman during a routine mission. The incident took place on June 13 near Soledar in Russia-occupied Donetsk. Reportedly, Russian military sources acknowledged that their SU-25 went down. There was no evidence that the fighter jet was brought down by hostile Ukraine-based news outlets also reported this. According to the Kyiv Independent, a Russian SU-25 attack aircraft from the Russian Aerospace Forces crashed on June 13. The pilot was successfully rescued. The SU-25 is a Soviet-era aircraft developed by Sukhoi in the late it's clear that the video does not show Iran shooting down an Israeli F-35 Watch Want to send us something for verification? Please share it on our at 73 7000 7000 You can also send us an email at factcheck@
India Today
7 days ago
- General
- India Today
Fact Check: Video of Egyptian Mummy FALSELY shared as Vijay Rupani's remains
The death toll in the Ahmedabad Air India AI171 crash has reached 274 and the numbers are anticipated to grow further. Among the dead is Vijay Rupani, the former Chief Minister of Gujarat. A video now going viral purports to show the charred remains of the Gujarat leader. India Today Fact Check found that the video shows an Egyptian Mummy inside a museum in Egypt. India Today Fact Check found that the video shows an Egyptian Mummy inside a museum in Egypt. advertisementIndia Today Fact Check found that the video shows an Egyptian Mummy inside a museum in Egypt. OUR PROBEReverse-searching keyframes from the viral video led us to a YouTube short featuring the same clip, dated June 7, five days before the crash, making it clear that it is unrelated to the tragedy. The voice-over in the video described it as the remains of a Pharaoh, a monarch of ancient Egypt from the First Dynasty. A subsequent search with relevant keywords led us to images of the same remains, featured on several archaeological and news websites. According to these reports, these remains are known as the Ahmose Mummy, or the Mummy of Ahmose. It resides at the Luxor Museum in per the Egypt Tours Portal, Ahmose I's Mummy was discovered in 1881 within the Deir el-Bahri Cache, alongside other leaders of the eighteenth and nineteenth dynasties. advertisementWe also found several full-length photos of this Mummy, shared by Egyptian tour guide Mahmoud Hamam. While posting these images, he noted that the Mummy was preserved in the Luxor Museum, while the coffin is kept in the Egyptian Museum at Tahrir Square in Cairo. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Mahmoud Hamam (@mahmoud_hamam74)Meanwhile, there are no reports about Vijay Rupani's mortal remains being recovered or identified, making it clear that the claim in the viral video is totally baseless. Tune InTrending Reel
India Today
03-06-2025
- Climate
- India Today
Fact Check: Old video of destruction from Himachal linked to floods in Guwahati
Different parts of Northeast India are in the grip of heavy floods that have killed at least 36 people so far and damaged several more than 5.35 lakh people have been affected across 22 districts in Assam, and urban flooding in Guwahati has led to significant property damage and massive a video, allegedly from Guwahati, has gone viral on social media showing some shops collapsing into floodwaters. Users sharing the video have captioned it, 'Pray for Assam.' advertisement Many users on Facebook and X have shared the video with the same claim. An archived version of the viral post can be seen Today Fact Check found that the video is neither from Guwahati nor recent. The video is from Himachal Pradesh, filmed in PROBEWith the help of Google Lens, we found that an Instagram user, 'the_phone_reviver,' posted the video in September 2024, stating that it shows the Sainj Valley flood of July 9, Valley is located in the Kullu district of Himachal Pradesh. View this post on Instagram A post shared by the_phone_reviver (@the_phone_reviver)The Instagram account is managed by Surender Chauhan, a resident of Sainj. He posted the viral video on his YouTube channel in September 2024 as reached out to Surender through the phone number listed on his Facebook profile. He confirmed that the video is indeed from Sainj said that he recorded the footage on his phone in July 2023, when severe floods hit the valley and other parts of Himachal to Surender, his mobile repair shop was located opposite the shops seen collapsing in the video. His shop also collapsed posted similar videos of the same location on his Instagram account on July 9, is also evident from the reports that flash floods wreaked havoc on the Sainj valley in July 2023, in which 200 shops were that time, many vloggers had also shared similar videos showing destruction in the Sainj it is clear that the claim of the viral video is Reel Want to send us something for verification? Please share it on our at 73 7000 7000 You can also send us an email at factcheck@
India Today
30-05-2025
- Climate
- India Today
Fact Check: This viral clip that stormed social media is NOT from Israel
A video currently going viral allegedly shows a massive storm that recently hit Israel. The footage shows debris crashing through an underpass at high speed, with people seen running in panic. A woman in a hoodie appears to be filming the scene in selfie mode. Text overlaid on the clip reads, 'Today Israel.' A Facebook user shared this video on May 26 with a Hindi caption that translates to: 'A terrific storm has struck Israel.'advertisementIndia Today Fact Check, however, found that this video dates back to April 2024 and shows a storm in Probe A reverse search of the video's keyframes led us to multiple April 2024 posts on social media. One such Instagram post described it as a storm in Dubai. We also found this video in an April 17, 2024, Daily Mail report about a huge storm that struck Dubai at that time. According to the report, heavy rains caused flooding in Dubai, resulting in airport disruptions and cancelled social media users attributed the video to a vlogger called Polina Nedogon. We found that Nedogon had shared this video on her TikTok account on April 16, 2024, mentioning the location as to Wooglobe, a company that shares user-generated content, Nedogon narrated her experience of the storm. "I had a day of travel, three flights, and a bus to Dubai. Before departure, I didn't know about the upcoming storm. I barely made it to the Ibn Battuta Mall bus stop, and this is what happened next," she to her Twitch and YouTube accounts, Polina Nedogon is a Russian acrobatics coach and a were also able to locate the video around Dubai's Ibn Battuta Mall bus stop on Google Maps. It has the same pillar design and adjoining glass building as seen in the viral did not find any recent reports of a major storm in Israel. However, there were reports of a massive sandstorm in southern Israel in early it's clear that a video from Dubai is being shared as footage of a recent storm in Watch Want to send us something for verification? Please share it on our at 73 7000 7000 You can also send us an email at factcheck@
India Today
04-05-2025
- Politics
- India Today
Fact Check: Kashmiri locals DIDN'T fight with Army after Pahalgam attack, this video is old
Amid escalating tensions between India and Pakistan, a video began making the rounds on social media showing an Indian Army soldier beating a civilian with sticks. Those sharing the clip claimed that locals in Kashmir got into a fight with the Indian army following the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack. Sharing the clip on Instagram, one person wrote, 'Kashmiri locals fighting with Indian Army. And yes it's April 2025 and after Pahalgam terrorist attack.' advertisementIndia Today Fact Check, however, found that this video predates the Pahalgam attack. The video is from August 2022, when Indian army personnel had beaten up a civilian in PROBE Reverse-searching keyframes from the viral video led us to a news report about this incident from August 22, 2022. According to it, Indian Army personnel hit a civilian with sticks at Nowgam Chowk in Srinagar. This makes it clear that the video predates the Pahalgam attack by almost three then found multiple news reports about this incident from 2022. As per reports, some uniformed soldiers beat up a civilian after they got into a minor fight in Srinagar. Following the incident, the Nowgam Police Station registered a case under sections 323, 341 of the IPC against the soldiers on August 18, Monday afternoon, an incident came to notice wherein some Army personnel in uniform reportedly beat up a civilian, while other personnel present also got involved in a minor fight at the Nowgam chowk," the Srinagar Police said in a statement.J&K police registers FIR after a video showing army men beating civilians at Nowgam area of Srinagar went viral. 'On receipt of this information, cognisance of incident was taken and a case under FIR number 116/2022 under sections 323,341 of IPC was registered in nowgam PS.' Ieshan Wani (@Ieshan_W) August 22, 2022In the video, we can see two soldiers pulling out the driver of a load carrier and hitting his head with a stick. During the altercation, another civilian could be seen trying to rescue the the time, many had shared the video of the incident on social media platforms. In one such post, we found another video of the incident shot from a different is thus clear that the video of soldiers beating up a civilian in Srinagar predates the Pahalgam attack, and is therefore unrelated to InMust Watch IN THIS STORY#Jammu and KashmirWant to send us something for verification? Please share it on our at 73 7000 7000 You can also send us an email at factcheck@
