The growth in number and scope of fact-checking projects is a testament to our collective hunger for clarity in a chaotic world.

The volume of fact-checking reports addressing misinformation in Bangladesh surged by 58% in 2024 compared to the previous year, according to a recent report by dismislab. The report identifies misinformation trends in 2024, highlighting people, countries, organisation and key narratives.

Fact-checking organisation dismislab, upon verification, found the claim to be false.

Dismislab debunks disinformation on Indian media

More claims suggesting the remark came from Mossad spread across X and TikTok.

Left unchecked, gendered disinformation poses a serious threat to women’s equal political participation.

"Basically he abused his position as a medic, which the IDF cannot shoot, to break the law and assist terrorists to get a weapon."

The National Security Council yesterday directed law enforcement and intelligence agencies to be on alert so that no one can spread any disinformation on social media centring the next national election.

Asked for comment, an X representative said more than 500 unique Community Notes, a feature that lets users add context to potentially misleading content, have been posted about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The Daily Star would like to clarify that we have not created or shared any photocard with the quoted statement

Nandana Sen posted a picture with her father and confirmed the 89-year-old was "busy as ever".

Searching on Google, we found no statement of Mirza Fakhrul Islam similar to the fake photocard in any media outlets and no news of Mirza Fakhrul's meeting with US Ambassador Peter Haas on October 8. 

In early 2017, when I was mulling over launching BD FactCheck – the first fact-checking initiative in Bangladesh – we looked for who else in the region was already working in this field.

Photoshopped pictures, fake captions, doctored contents swarm social media; culprits abuse it for inciting fanaticism, running propaganda against war crimes trial, and for character assassination