Viral Facebook pages claiming to be SME Development Bank in Myanmar providing loans easily online are well intimated and challenge the real authentic page of the bank. Fact Crescendo Myanmar found that it turns out to be fraudulent financial pages using SME Development Bank’s name The following screenshot was taken from a Facebook page that […]
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The viral claim that the world-famous Eiffel Tower in Paris, France, is on fire, and the fire is burning uncontrollably is found to be false. Widely shared on Facebook and X(former Twitter) platforms, fire is seen swallowing the historic structures of the Eiffel Tower in the photos. The following text and screenshot are taken from […]
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Social media posts along with a video record showing a pile of weaponry and ammunition is claiming to be of those seized by Myanmar army from Kuki National Army(KNA), which base along India-Myanmar border, got viral in major social media platform like X(Formerly Twitter) and Facebook. The claim is misleading, and found to be false. […]
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A post claiming to be U Kyaw Thu Maung, a well-known Burmese cardiologist who retired at the age of 70, and still young at the age of 109, has surfaced amongst Burmese language users. The viral posts claim that his secret about longevity was taking Cardiovax medicine, a blood purifying agent. However, Factcrescendo Myanmar team […]
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A new strain Coronavirus which caused this pandemic has affected more than 3 million people around the world and killed more than two hundred thousand people to date according to worldsmeter.info. Wuhan Bio-safety Laboratory located in Wuhan, where the outbreak of this pandemic started, was one of the most highly discussed topics by international observers […]
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COVID-19 Pandemic has gripped most of the nations around the world with the number of those infected with this deadly disease cause by the novel coronavirus has infected over a million people. It’s an unprecedented global health crisis which has brought the world to a stand-still. COVID-19 has also reached Myanmar with a lot of […]
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Italy is facing one of the worst cases of Coronavirus infection in the world. Italy has surpassed China by number of deaths – more than 50,000 people have contracted with covid-19 and nearly 5,000 people died from the pandemic according to WHO. In his context, news about Italian officials were also popular on social network […]
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Coronavirus infection spreads intensively in Italy and has had a serious impact on Italy, which is known in Europe as a country with many elderly citizens. By March 19, more than 35,000 people in Italy had contracted the coronavirus, and nearly 3000 had died from pandemic according to worldometers.info. In such scenario, a photo of […]
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On February 20, a post from a Facebook account named Zaw Tun shared a screenshot of a news article that said military personnel discussed dollar price. The news article, allegedly published by a prominent media organization called Eleven Media Group further claimed that the military officer blamed the rise in prices of dollar on its […]
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A misleading news article shared on Facebook claims that Myamar government is buying old and not in circulation notes of 15 Kyat for 15 lakh Kyat. The article contains a video and it is being shared 1st March 2020 and has been shared by 269 Facebook users. The video in the article, released in the […]
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