Fact Check
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Social media posts claiming international news media praised CPN-UML general convention are baseless
Social media posts are circulating with claims that the grandeur of the CPN-UML general convention d...
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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...
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Old photos of former king and queen circulating with false claims
Nearly three years old photos of former king and queen are being circulated on social media with fal...
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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 ...
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Congress’ Mahat wrong in claiming parties have only moral obligation but no legal compulsion to hold periodic general conventions
Nepal's constitution and Political Parties Act have made it mandatory for political parties to condu...
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Leftist politician falsely claims former Oli government couldn’t bring Covid-19 vaccine
Ram Kumari Jhakri, a politician associated with the proposed CPN (Unified Socialist) claimed that th...
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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...
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Political commentator falsely claims Nepal postage stamp issued in 1958 had a ‘pointy map’
Political commentator Saurabh recently claimed that a postage stamp issued by Nepal government in 19...
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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...
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Video clips falsely suggest Covid-19 vaccine makes human body magnetic
Many Nepalis have been sharing video clips claiming they developed magnetism after taking Covid-19 v...
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