Category Misconceptions

The viral ‘abandoned child’ story: Feel-good posts can be fake too! – Truth or Fake

It's a heartwarming story: a Danish humanitarian worker, Anja Ringgren Loven, helped this starving child in 2016. The moment when she offered him water was captured on camera, and the picture went viral online.

May 27, 2021
Disinformation Fact checks / debunkings Misconceptions Resources

Debunked: Putin’s ‘Bond villain’ house doesn’t exist

Two pictures of a white, futuristic building in a forest went briefly viral in early April with the false claim that the building belonged to Russian president Vladimir Putin.

April 13, 2021
Disinformation Fact checks / debunkings Misconceptions Putin Russia