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NewsGuard’s “False Claim of the Week” highlights a claim from NewsGuard’s False Claim Fingerprints, a proprietary database of provably false claims and their debunks. This week’s claim is that the news outlets reported that Israeli and Indian officials held a secret meeting to orchestrate the FlyDubai pilot-stabbing incident. It is NewsGuard’s “False Claim of the Week” due to its widespread appearance across social media platforms and websites, its high engagement levels, and the high-profile nature of the sources promoting it. Those three factors, as well as its significant subject matter and potential for harm, make it our False Claim of the Week.
By Julia Senzon
What happened: South Asian-based social media users are baselessly claiming that two Indian intelligence officials held covert talks with the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad to stage the hijacking of an Israel-bound FlyDubai flight, a supposed “false flag” to blame Iran and Arab countries for terrorism and garner sympathy for Israel. The accounts are citing a deepfake video of a BBC journalist to bolster their claims.
Context: On Sept. 30, a FlyDubai flight traveling from Dubai to Tel Aviv made an emergency...
Did the second Trump administration reverse a 30-year decline in lifespan in the U.S.? False Claim of the Week: Israeli and Indian Officials Held a Secret Meeting to Orchestrate the FlyDubai Pilot-...