A video circulating on Facebook claims to show people in Saudi Arabia crowding into a supermarket because of a war. Dismislab found that the footage was filmed in 2025 at the opening of a supermarket in Mecca and has no connection to any conflict. en.dismislab.com/saudi-super…

A Dismislab investigation found that multiple fake pages have been created using the name, photos and videos of Nahid Hasan, the entrepreneur behind the platform "Nahid's World". en.dismislab.com/nahids-worl…

A video was spread on Facebook claiming that Awami League leaders and activists threw flour at Dr Muhammad Yunus as he got into a car from the airport in New York. However, Dismislab’s fact-check found the claim to be false. en.dismislab.com/flour-throw…

A video was spread on Facebook with the claim that people across India have united against the Modi government. However, Dismislab’s fact-check found that the scene is not from India. It is a video of a festival in Vietnam. en.dismislab.com/video-vietn…

An Indian visa applicant received an SMS asking them to pay Tk9 to verify their appointment. The link led to a fake IVAC website. After following the steps, they watched helplessly as fraudsters drained over Tk10,000 from their bKash account. en.dismislab.com/ivac-fake-w…

A video was circulated on Facebook claiming that PTI workers have taken hold of the Governor House in Pakistan. However, a fact-check by Dismislab reveals that the video is from the Gen-Z movement in Nepal in September last year. en.dismislab.com/pakistan-go…

A video shared on Facebook claimed that hundreds of protesters are traveling to Delhi by train to join a demonstration. However, Dismislab found that the video is not from India. An old video filmed in Bangladesh was circulated with a false context. en.dismislab.com/train-video…

The tendency to portray women as commodities in films and other media has been discussed for a long time. News reports about female performers also sometimes use gender-insensitive language. en.dismislab.com/female-actr…

Two Bangladeshi news outlets, Daily Jugantor and Daily Ittefaq, reported online that poems by Rabindranath Tagore are being dropped from the school curriculum in India’s West Bengal. However, Dismislab's fact-check found that claim to be misleading. en.dismislab.com/wbbse-rabin…

A video was spread on Facebook claiming that Neymar Jr traveled to Argentina to watch Lionel Messi’s farewell match. However, Dismislab’s fact-check found that the video is not from the time when Messi’s farewell match was held in Argentina. en.dismislab.com/neymar-mess…

A video recently posted on X claims that a 20-year-old Hindu woman in Bangladesh was forcibly married to a 65-year-old Muslim elder. However, Dismislab’s fact-check has found that the circulating video is part of staged content. en.dismislab.com/hindu-woman…

A video falsely claims that police are taking away a man for performing the azaan at a mosque in India. Fact-check: The man was detained after he threw a garland of shoes at a judge because a court ruling did not go in his favour. Full report: en.dismislab.com/elderly-man…

A photo has been circulating on Facebook with the claim that a woman gave birth on the road after being turned away from Noakhali Government Hospital because she could not pay. However, Dismislab found that the incident did not take place in Bangladesh. en.dismislab.com/noakhali-ho…

A video has been circulating on Facebook with the claim that a purported “July warrior” was caught pretending to be blind. However, Dismislab found that the person in the video is Alif Chowdhury, who lost vision in his left eye but not the right eye. en.dismislab.com/alif-chowdh…

News outlet Daily Sun recently posted a video on Facebook claiming that local residents vandalized an electricity office in Aftabnagar in protest against 24-hour load shedding. However, Dismislab’s fact-check found that no such incident occurred. en.dismislab.com/daily-sun/

Multiple Bangladeshi news outlets used a photo in reports on the September 14 attack by Houthi rebels on Saudi Arabia’s King Khalid Air Base. Dismislab found that the photo was from a fire that broke out in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, in September 2015. en.dismislab.com/saudi-coali…

A video has been circulating on Facebook with the claim that Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian touched the feet of a Hindu religious leader and bowed after the BRICS summit. However, a Dismislab fact-check found that the circulated video is edited. en.dismislab.com/iran-presid…

A video has been circulating on Facebook with the claim that terrorists set fire to a Gita school run by the Hindu Welfare Trust in Satkhira. However, a Dismislab fact-check found that to be false. en.dismislab.com/jamaat-gita…

A video was spread on social media claiming that militancy has increased in the country since August 5 and that a Jamaat leader is test-firing a machine gun. However, Dismislab found that the video actually shows an arms dealer based in Pakistan. en.dismislab.com/amaat-leade…

A video has been circulating on Facebook with the claim that Chinese troops attacked a captain of the Indian Army. However, Dismislab found that the video actually shows a physical altercation between members of two armed groups in Myanmar in 2025. en.dismislab.com/chinese-mil…