The viral message claiming Minister Imran Khan was expelled from a ‘Conference of Islamic Countries’ for condemning the construction of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya is false. Imran Khan did not represent Pakistan in the said conference and the claim is fabricated.

Viral Birthday video depicting death of boy due to birthday bumps is false. The video is enacted to create awareness against such acts of violence.

While researchers are still studying the new Omicron variant of the Coronavirus and its possible implications to the partly vaccinated world, Netizens were quick to share their unsubstantiated findings on the Omicron strain. Here is a list of the top five fake claims Newschecker debunked this week.

An edited movie poster titled ‘The Omicron Variant’ is being widely shared to claim the variant was already predicted back in 1963.

Viral post claiming Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath humiliated Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya by driving him away from the stage is misleading. In fact, KP Maurya was not present in the program of which this claim is being shared by sharing the video.

Social media posts claiming the Omicron variant cannot be detected in the current testing methods are false.