As we mark the end of the year 2023, Fact Crescendo Myanmar took measures to review 2023 social media trends on fact-checking articles. FC Myanmar observed repeated claims in the form of frauds and scams for financial gains, along with click-bait on political claims in the form of mis-captioned videos as the patterns of misinformation. […]
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A video claiming to be a successful gun mounted drone, shooting test carried out in Myanmar has been widely been shared on Facebook sparking misunderstandings among social media users. The video shows gun-mounted on a drone firing back and forth automatically in the woods, and many commentators praised it as the success of People Defense Force (PDF) in […]
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The military crackdown of the protestors in Myanmar have intensified over the past several days with hundreds being reported as detained so far, despite receiving strong international condemnation. On this backdrop, we noticed viral social media posts, which claimed that the US Embassy in Myanmar had requested the public to contact them, related to the […]
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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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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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