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Eleven days into the Israel-Iran war, NewsGuard has identified 22 false claims related to the war and 62 websites that have advanced those falsehoods. In this Special Edition of Reality Check, we expose how pro-Iranian accounts distorted flight data to claim that China is supporting Iran by dispatching a military cargo plane to Iran, identify a fabricated map used to justify an airstrike on an Israeli hospital, report on a non-existent order from U.S. military brass withdrawing U.S. troops from the Middle East, and unmask an anti-Iran false claim of the resignation of Iran’s president.
Plus: Stay informed on the latest falsehoods about the Israel-Iran war with NewsGuard’s Iranian State-Affiliated False Claims Tracker.
What happened: As the war between Israel and Iran intensifies with the U.S. bombing of Iran, social media users are falsely claiming that China sent military cargo planes to Iran, a move that would show Beijing’s active...
A longtime contractor at the Hanford Site has come to an agreement with the Federal Government over allegations that the company was fraudulently billing the Department of Energy(DOE). The investig...