Articles by Sanjog Shiwakoti

• Viral TikTok videos claiming Nepal imposed new Covid lockdown are lies Some TikTok users have mixed a different soundtrack with different visuals to spread misinformation. Read More
• Foreign video clips circulating on TikTok as Nepal floods South Asia Check has tracked down at least three misleading videos on TikTok that have been widely s... Read More
• Oli wrongly refers to little people of Africa as ‘Lilliput’ CPN-UML Chairman KP Oli claimed there are little people called Lilliput in Africa. Lilliput in fact ... Read More
• Image claiming to show recent Kabul evacuation is an old Philippines photo South Asia Check ran a ‘reverse image search’ of the photo and found the same image on the US Ai... Read More
• Some pictures circulating as this week’s Melamchi flooding scenes are old A devastating flooding of the Melamchi River on Tuesday night swept through riverside settlements fr... Read More
• Prime minister’s press advisor wrongly claims Chure hills lie only in Nepal The Chure range also known as Siwalik or Sub-Himalaya extends over Bhutan, Nepal, India and Pakistan... Read More
• Old man in viral social media posts is a US WWII veteran, not a Covid-recovered Italian US WWII veteran Bill Moore’s image has been wrongly used to support a possibly apocryphal story, w... Read More
• Photo of a pigeon sitting on a hospital patient circulating with false claims The photo is almost eight years old and was not taken by a nurse as claimed in social media posts. Read More
• These ‘basic medicines for Covid-19’ shouldn’t be taken without doctor’s advice A handwritten ‘Covid tablets’ list is circulating on Facebook and messaging apps such as WhatsAp... Read More
• Old foreign photos being circulated as Nepal wildfire photos Nepal’s major cities including Kathmandu and Pokhara are blanketed by the smoke from the raging wi... Read More
• TikTok user trimmed video to show Dahal in a bad light A 21-second video clip that shows Maoist leader Pushpa Kamal Dahal criticizing the general people is... Read More
• PM’s suggestion of salt water gargle as home remedy for Covid is misleading The prime minister also said some people had earlier made fun of him for suggesting salt water gargl... Read More
• Old photo photoshopped to show Indian flag in February 10 demonstration We found that the original photo, which does not contain the Indian flag, was published almost a mon... Read More
• PM wrong in saying Bimala Tamang won gold in 2014 Asiad In fact, Bimala Tamang had won a karate bronze and this was the only medal for Nepal in the 17th Asi... Read More
• Writer Wagle grossly misquoted in viral meme We found that during his January 25 Baluwatar speech, writer Narayan Wagle hasn’t called for const... Read More