KP Fact Check ✅ 🟠 Claim: Afghan Taliban spokesperson, Zabihullah Mujahid and affiliated propaganda accounts are claiming that Pakistan carried out deadly airstrikes on 28/29 June 2026, injuring civilians, sharing images of allegedly injured civilians as evidence of the recent strikes. 🟢 Reality: The claim is false, misleading, and based on recycled imagery intended to […]
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AI fake satellite images fuel wartime misinformation
The growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) to create realistic satellite images is intensifying concerns about misinformation during armed conflicts, after a fake satellite image claiming to show a destroyed US military base spread widely online. Read More: Google launches Nano Banana pro for AI image creation The image, shared by Iran’s state-aligned newspaper Tehran Times on […]
UN expert condemned attacks on Palestine rapporteur
An independent United Nations (UN) expert has condemned what it called disinformation-driven attacks by several European ministers against Francesca Albanese, the UN’s special rapporteur on the occupied Palestine territories, amid growing political pressure for her resignation. Read More: UN experts face criticism over Palestine remarks The criticism followed claims circulated in recent days that Albanese had described Israel […]
Quaid-e-Azam at 150: Pakistan’s narrative in the age of disinformation
As Pakistan approaches 2026, marking the 150th birth anniversary of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the occasion demands more than commemorative events. It calls for a renewed national conversation on Pakistan’s ideological foundations at a time when misinformation, disinformation and digital distortion increasingly shape public opinion. In this environment, reclaiming and communicating Pakistan’s original narrative becomes […]
Pakistan urges UN to combat information manipulation by occupying powers
UNITED NATIONS – Pakistan has raised alarm over the strategic manipulation of information by occupying powers to distort facts, suppress dissent, and justify repression, urging the international community to combat the weaponization of information. Speaking at the UN General Assembly’s Fourth Committee, which addresses special political and decolonization issues, Amanat Ali, Press Counsellor at Pakistan’s […]
Grooming Gang Disinformation
The recent article by Hardeep Singh in the British paper Telegraph, titled “The Grooming Gangs Rapists Are Mainly Pakistani Muslims, Not ‘Asian’”, has sparked a frenzied debate about the nature of group-based child sexual exploitation (CSE) in the UK. Singh’s claim that most grooming-gang offenders are Pakistani Muslim men has been widely criticized for distorting […]
Meta disables Russian propaganda network targeting Europe
A sprawling disinformation network originating in Russia sought to use hundreds of fake social media accounts and dozens of sham news websites to spread Kremlin talking points about the invasion of Ukraine, Meta revealed Tuesday. The company, which owns Facebook and Instagram, said it identified and disabled the operation before it was able to gain […]
Biden accuses Russia trying to disrupt 2022 elections
US President Joe Biden on Tuesday accused his Russian counterpart of seeking to disrupt the 2022 congressional elections by spreading “misinformation.” “Look at what Russia is doing already about the 2022 elections and misinformation,” Biden said during a trip to the office of the director of national intelligence near Washington, referring to information he receives […]
Biden says social media misinformation on Covid ‘killing people’
President Joe Biden said Friday that social media disinformation about Covid-19 and vaccinations is “killing people.” “They’re killing people. The only pandemic we have is among the unvaccinated. And they’re killing people,” he told reporters at the White House as he left for a weekend at the presidential retreat in Camp David. The White House […]
PML-N, PPP welcome to launch anti-govt campaign: PTI
Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi Thursday said the opposition parties are welcome to launch a campaign against government if they think that any such move at this point of time will be in favour of the country. “If PML-N and PPP think that protest will be in the country’s favour at this time, then they […]