Articles by South Asia Check

• A supposed home remedy for boosting blood oxygen levels is unfounded A social media post claims sniffing a mixture of camphor, cloves, carom seeds and eucalyptus oil boo... Read More
• Quarterly report (Jan-March) on anonymous sources in newspapers Nagarik daily used the most number of anonymous sources (in 220 instances) in its front page reports... Read More
• Shashank Koirala significantly understates Nepal’s arable land area Shashank Koirala said Nepal has 1.7 million hectares of arable land. In fact, Nepal's arable land ar... Read More
• PM made four false claims in two recent speeches In his recent speeches, the prime minister has been repeating some claims that have already been deb... Read More
• PM Oli made some misleading claims in upper house Three of the claims made by the prime minister in the upper house on January 10 were either misleadi... Read More
• Quarterly report (Oct-Dec, 2020) on anonymous sources in newspapers In the last quarter of 2020, The Kathmandu Post was ahead among five dailies in terms of the use ano... Read More
• World Doctors Alliance’s video on Covid-19 misleading Over the past few days, Facebook users in Nepal have widely shared a message that claims the WHO has... Read More
• ‘Red mercury’ claims on social media just a hoax Con artists in several countries have used this dubious substance to swindle unsuspecting public. Read More
• Quarterly report (July-Sept) on anonymous sources in newspapers Nagarik used the most number of anonymous sources this quarter followed by Kantipur, The Kathmandu P... Read More
• Some claims in Putin memes circulating in Nepal are false At least two memes are circulating on social media in Nepal praising Russian President Putin for gra... Read More
• Absurd claims that Covid-19 test kits predated pandemic As the false claims made rounds on social media and websites that promote conspiracy theories, the W... Read More
• PM Oli made three false claims Among other things, the prime minister said: "Currently, we are conducting 23,000 to 24,000 PCR [pol... Read More
• Some news websites used old photo of Putalisadak blaze to depict Monday’s fire The news sites that published the misleading photo included Dainiki, Ashaka Kiran, Khaskhabar, Nepal... Read More
• Old photo being circulated as that of recent Chepang settlement fire This photo, which we can say is several years old, has misled people into believing that it was of t... Read More
• Peru hill collapse image being circulated as Darchula landslide photo A reverse image search of the photo on Google and Yandex showed that it was a more than two-year-old... Read More