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False: White, pink and light blue stripes on a version of the LGBTQ+ pride flag,known asthe Progress Pride flag,were added torepresent pedophiles. AsPride monthenters its final week, a video spreading on social media is promoting the erroneous claim. (Source: Associated Press - AP News)

False: Video shows effigy of PM Modi with shoes hung on it to protest his recent state visit to the US. An old video of a protest against Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the US has been revived amid the PM's recent state visit to the country.BOOM found that the video is from 2019, when protests against PM Modi and the revocation of article 370 took place ahead of the PM's address a (Source: BOOM Live)

False: The video shows people hurling abuses at PM Modi during his recent visit to the United States. A video of Prime Minister Narendra Modi shaking hands with some people on stage is going viral with a claim that the audience was hurling abuses at PM Modi during his recent visit to the United States.What are users saying?: Those sharing the video captioned it in Hindi that said (Source: WebQoof - The Quint)

False: Andrew Garfield’s grandfather created Garfield comics, and Andrew’s childhood cat "Lasagna" was the inspiration for the cartoon's main character. About this rating Andrew Garfield the actor, and Garfield the cat are often connectedto one another through online jokes and rumor mongers. One particular tweet went viral on June 19, 2023, claiming the actor's grandfather was the creator of the cartoon. "I was today years old wh (Source: Snopes)

No Basis: a cold compress of tofu poultice applied to the back of the head will starve and get rid of brain tumors No BasisDoes a cold compress of tofu poultice applied to the back of the head "starve" and "get rid of" brain tumors? No, that's not true: While there are health benefits associated with eating tofu, searched for and did not find publicly available credible evidence that external (Source: Lead Stories)

False: Wildfires released more carbon in three days than all humanity in the last 100 years Carbon emissions from Canadian wildfires don't compare to those of human race | Fact checkShow Caption Hide Caption Bad air quality a routine peril for many countries Thick, smoky air from Canadian wildfires made for days of misery in New York City and across the U.S. Northeast this week. Carbon emissions from human race surpass those of wildfiresHundreds of wildfires have spread across Canada since early May, blanketing much of Canada and parts of the U.S. in smoke. But the carbon emissions from these wildfires don't compare to those of the entire human race, according to Dr. Werner Kurz, a senior research scientist at the Canadian Forest Service. Though they've caused significant emissions, those emissions pale in comparison to the annual emissions of all global human activity – let alone the emissions over the past 100 years. Kurz said CO2 emissions from global fossil fuel burning averaged about 35 billion tons annually over the last decade, or 100 times the emissions from the Canadian wildfires this year. (Source: USA Today)