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False: “El nuevo WhatsApp de 2023” permite “ver con quién están hablando tus contactos en vivo”. No, no hay una aplicación que espie a tus contactos en WhatsApp.WhatsApp tiene una tecnología de seguridad que asegura que solo tu y la persona con la que te estás comunicando puedan leer o escuchar lo que es enviado. (Source: PolitiFact)

Missing Context: Clip cuts Joe Biden quote making it appear he endorsed Donald Trump A speech made by U.S. President Joe Biden in 2020 has been clipped to make it appear that he endorsed Republican Donald Trump by saying, “we can only re-elect Donald Trump.” The short clip cuts the last part of Biden’s sentence, where he continues, “if in fact we get engaged in t (Source: Reuters)

True: First Republic Bank was closed and sold to JPMorgan Chase on May 1, 2023, making it the second-largest U.S. bank failure in history based on its total assets. About this rating On May 1, 2023, the United States saw the collapse of a major bank, as regulators seized control of First Republic Bank and sold it to JPMorgan Chase. The collapse was described by manymedia outlets and social media commentators as the second-largest bank failur (Source: Snopes)

Labeled Satire: In April 2023, Disney World announced it was moving from Orlando, Florida, to New Orleans, Louisiana. About this rating On April 28, 2023, Mouse Trap News posted "breaking news" thatDisney World was officially moving to New Orleans: BREAKING: Disney World Officially Moving to New Orleans The Desantis vs Disney fight continues, with each day getting more extreme than the last. As  (Source: Snopes)

False: Image shows graves of Pakistani women locked by their parents to prevent necrophilia. Many mainstream media outlets published an image of a grave closed with a padlock with the claim that it shows Pakistani parents locking the grave of their daughter to avoid her corpse falling prey to necrophilia.BOOM found this claim to be false; we found that the grave in the v (Source: BOOM Live)

False: Crowd attacks BJP vehicle during campaigning for Karnataka Assembly elections Authors Sabloo Thomas Sabloo Thomas has worked as a special correspondent with the Deccan Chronicle from 2011 to December 2019. Post-Deccan Chronicle, he freelanced for various websites and worked in the capacity of a translator as well (English to Malayalam and Malayalam to Engl (Source: Newschecker)

False: photos of AAP leader injured in recent incident from UP 27 Oct 2020 5:11 AM GMTHyderabad: A photo of a wounded and bleeding man who sustained bullets injuries while rescuing a girl who was sexually assaulted in Uttar Pradesh's Shahjahanpur has been doing the rounds of social media. A few users have claimed that he killed two assaulter (Source: Newsmeter)

False: The company in charge of implementing the emergency phone alert is owned by prime minister Rishi Sunak’s wife. The emergency alert that appeared on the phones of millions of people across the UK has been connected to a number of conspiracy theories and claims.One claim shared widely across social media suggested the company in charge of implementing the alert was owned by prime minister r (Source: The Ferret)

False: Babita Phogat who had spoken against protestors sitting at Shaheen Bagh is not protesting with wrestlers in Delhi. A set of two images is going viral on social media with a claim that former Indian wrestler Babita Phogat who had spoken against the people of Shaheen Bagh who were protesting against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and National Register of Citizens (NRC), is now part of the prot (Source: WebQoof - The Quint)

False: Yashasvi Jaiswal was discovered by Sanju Samson as a pani puri seller in 2020. A photo showing cricketer Yashasvi Jaiswal at a food stall is being widely shared on social media, the day he became the highest individual scorer during the 2023 Indian Premier League.The claim: The photo is being shared to claim that Jaiswal, who was a pani puri (an Indian stre (Source: WebQoof - The Quint)

False: Video shows goats being thrown out of a truck along the Kanpur Unnao highway in Uttar Pradesh. A video showing goats being thrown out of a moving truck has gone viral on social media.What is the claim?: The video is being shared to claim that the incident took place along the Kanpur-Unnao road in Uttar Pradesh.The video was shared with the same claim by Hindi news organisa (Source: WebQoof - The Quint)

False: prolonged mammogram radiation is dangerous Is regular mammogram radiations equal to Hiroshima radiation levels?NOo Regular mammograms do not equate to Hiroshima radiation levels as they use very low doses of radiation. The amount of radiation from a mammogram is about 0.4 millisieverts. The radiation dose absorbed by the  (Source: Thip Media)