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For this week’s wrap, where Newschecker rounds up key fact checks, we found a video of a siren being shared with misleading news related to the ongoing India-China territorial dispute, how PM Narendra Modi’s 2017 Ro-Ro ferry initiative was shared as a recent one, and how a 3-D visual effects video of a drone delivering a package in Lagos, Nigeria fooled many online users.
The Chinese army did not use a loudspeaker at the Indian military camp in Ladakh recently. The video in the claim is from 2016 and shows a product called Defender Siren.
PM Modi’s 2017 Ro-Ro ferry initiative was shared as a recent one. And the accompanying video is in fact of the Braemar cruise in Corinth Canal, Greece.
Himalaya Drug Company’s founder M Manal passed away in 1986. Man in the viral video is Naqi Ahmed Nadwi, administrator at Maaden, Riyadh.
The claim on a drone delivery service in Lagos, Nigeria, which is accompanied by a video is misleading. The video in context was created using 3-D visual effects and is not real.
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