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A WhatsApp message has gone viral in Pakistan. It talks about changes at Twitter that it claims have taken place after Elon Musk bought the social media platform. A lot of the ‘info’ is false. For instance, the CEO fired…
A Twitter account claiming to be of a “journalist from Kenya” with 58 tweets and only 3 days old has a display pic which is not of any journalist but of a Kenyan celebrity whose sex tape was leaked online.…
The documentary “Behind Closed Doors” by an obscure and unknown group is not coming to Netflix. It will however most likely find its way to their own YouTube channel – with around 107,000 subscribers – not Netflix though. Some facts:…
Severa pro-PTI commentators and followers of the party have circulated a screenshot from CNN’s Twitter handle which says that the US was nearing “a formal agreement” with Pakistan to use its airspace. This is false because the tweet and the…
A clip claiming to be that of former ISI Chief Lt Gen (r) Ahmad Shuja Pasha is being disseminated by supporters of former PM Imran Khan as ‘proof’ that senior retired officers are critical of the way the former PM…
There is ‘news’ going around that the chartered jet that stopped some days ago in Karachi from India to Dubai carried some Pakistani passengers and that they were relatives of a sitting federal minister. That is incorrect. Official sources have…
A fake news claimed that 7 deaths has been reported in last 24 hours in Karachi. This is false and incorrect. The Sindh Health Department said no such thing. What it did say was that since January 2022 a total…
This fake tweet is being spread on Twitter – mostly by supporters of Imran Khan – to discredit the Pakistan government. It’s from a fake Twitter handle and despite that has been liked retweeted thousands of times. The UN Secretary…
Much has been made of the tweet by a lawyer and well known PTI supporter which claimed that aid sent by the UK government in the form of flour bags was being sold at a shop in Sindh. The NDMA…
Contrary to what some reports are suggesting the Lahore High Court has not restored Usman Buzdar as Punjab chief minister. It has ordered that the vote through which Hamza Shehbaz was elected Chief Minister be recounted but after excluding the…
