Twice a day we pull the posts going viral on TikTok, Instagram, X and Facebook and run them through the record. Each entry is a published verdict — what we found, why, and the sources behind it.
241 checks
X · Clip 1.6K likes within 3h; Raw Story notes the Pentagon's official Iran war US death toll was raised to 23 in October
True
The clip is genuine Fox News footage of Trump's 8 November 2026 airport remarks, and his statement that no soldiers were lost in the Iran war is flatly false — the Pentagon's own database lists 23 US military deaths and 865 wounded.
X · Sciutto post 261 likes; 'iran strikes' on Google Trends US at 10000+; IBTimes UK coverage
Can't Verify
Jim Sciutto's post accurately summarises his own on-the-record interview with President Trump: CNN's published report confirms Trump said "highly unlikely" five times about renewed war with Iran, described US forces as ready, and put Iran at 10% of missile capacity and 15% of drone capability.
X · Primary 42 likes; IRIran_MiliarY 423 likes, SunilYadav990 315 likes; timely after 8 Nov IRGC claim that two tankers hit mines
True But
The core events are real and well documented: CENTCOM confirmed on 7 November 2026 that it disabled the St Kitts-flagged cargo ship M/V Huda in the Gulf of Oman for breaching the US blockade of Iran, and tankers did burn in and near the Strait of Hormuz. The caption nonetheless overstates matters — the 'mine' cause is an unverified IRGC/IRNA claim that CENTCOM disputes, and CENTCOM confirmed only the Huda strike, not the Iranian account.
X · Primary 3,224 likes; Osint613 1,679 likes; Times of India YouTube video 205K views in 14h; wide international coverage
True But
The clip shows genuine aftermath footage of the Aramco Tower in Riyadh's King Abdullah Financial District after the 8 November 2026 Houthi missile attack, an event confirmed by Reuters, AFP, BBC and CNN and by Saudi Arabia's Energy Ministry.
YouTube · 79K views in ~14h; Times of India video on same claim 310K views; cause disputed between Iranian outlets (warning shots vs US strikes on Qeshm)
Can't Verify
This is a text-only YouTube headline, not footage. Its core claim checks out — the US confirmed limited strikes on Iran's Qeshm Island and explosions were reported in Qeshm, Sirik, Jask and Bandar Abbas on 7 November 2026 — but the headline overstates the picture by attributing all four blasts to a US attack and by inventing a '24-hour ultimatum' from Iran.
YouTube · Picked up by tz/Newsweek (7 Nov), Diario de México/EFE, Hromadske; Mimikama reader-question fact-check 8 Nov · resurfaced
True
The post accurately titles an official video of President Zelensky's address to a special panel on Ukraine at the 30th Ibero-American Summit in Madrid on 5 November 2026. The substantive claims in the speech — the Komyshuvakha death toll, the Oleshky humanitarian operation with the US First Lady, and Ukraine's first appearance at the summit — are corroborated by independent and official sources.
X · OKO.press (8 Nov) traces graphic's spread across Telegram, Facebook, TikTok, X, VK and Bulgarian/Greek/Spanish/Chinese/Vietnamese outlets; Demagog fact-check 8 Nov; police denial post (kwpkrakow) widely shared
False
The Krakow mass shooting of 7 November 2026 is real, but the claim that the attacker was tied to pro-Azov Ukrainian fighters is false — a Russian-sourced narrative built on a generic, freely sold 'Blackbeard flag' patch that Polish outlets have debunked.
X · Series of GAZAWOOD posts 7 Nov amid Gaza storm (Gaza govt media office: ~70,000 tents flooded); reposted in Arabic by @bosh_7774 claiming flood videos are AI-generated for donations; Kashif fact-check 8 Nov. No view counts available
Misleading
The montage uses two genuine Gaza recordings - a real 250-couple mass wedding on 6 November 2026 and the real flooding of about 70,000 displaced people's tents as the season's first storm hit that night - and pairs them under a 'FEW HOURS APART' banner to insinuate that the suffering footage is staged. The clips and the timing are accurate; the conclusion the post invites is false and has been rated misleading by fact-checkers.
X · Shared by at least 5 X accounts in English and Arabic between 7 Nov 20:51Z and 8 Nov 05:29Z (per Misbar 8 Nov); no view counts available
Misleading
The night footage is real, but it is not new: the clip was published by Iranian media on 7 May 2026 as air defenses firing over western Tehran, so presenting it as a current engagement with 'unidentified objects' is misleading.
X · Kyiv Independent (7 Nov), Moscow Times (8 Nov), t-online (8 Nov), Cybernews, money.pl, noviny.sk pickup; thread quotes skeptic @AMK_Mapping_ post; Rosstat confirms attacks but denies leak
True But
Janis Kluge's thread about the leaked Rosstat death-certificate data is well grounded: the breach and the roughly 394,000–450,000 war-death estimates were widely reported, and the figures do align with other independent estimates. The one caveat is that the authenticity of the leaked dataset had not yet been independently confirmed, so his confidence that the numbers were not manipulated is a reasoned expert judgement rather than a verified fact.
X · 10,488 likes; amplified (reposted) by Elon Musk per Kyiv Independent; Kyiv Independent story trending on Mastodon links 7 Nov
Misleading
The post is text-only commentary, so there is no media to verify. Its donation and cost figures are broadly accurate, but its central assertion that donated civilian Starlink became the 'backbone for autonomous killing drones' is overstated and disputed — Ukrainian officials and specialists say the drone backbone is the separate, US-controlled Starshield service, not the donated commercial one.
X · BackChannelQ 411 likes; same text reposted 5-6 Nov (Theworl04 6 Nov, 129 likes); Misbar fact check 7 Nov · resurfaced
False
The night-time footage of trucks appears to be genuine, but the accompanying claim is false: the U.S. Emergency Broadcast System was retired in 1997 and no such activation has been announced, making this a recurring QAnon-style alarm post.
X · Same text reposted by several accounts 3-6 Nov (EN/AR/JA/HI); Theworl04 post 454 likes; Misbar fact check 7 Nov · resurfaced
Misleading
The video is genuine but months old: it shows three U.S. B-52H bombers arriving at RAF Fairford on 9 March 2026, not a fresh landing, and in fact all American bombers were pulled out of Fairford on 4 October 2026. Re-presenting it in November as a 'massive breaking war update' is misleading.
X · 20,947 likes (syndication, 2026-11-07); Lead Stories fact check 2026-11-06
False
The image is synthetic — it carries a Google SynthID watermark and scored 83.5% AI-generated on Hive — and the claim it illustrates is fabricated: Wilson Joseph, leader of Haiti's 400 Mawozo gang, has not been captured by Salvadoran forces.
Instagram · Wide mainstream pickup 6-7 Nov: NYT, Rolling Stone, Billboard, Guardian, USA Today, People, Hollywood Reporter, NY Post, Jerusalem Post/Reuters; MSG publicly rebutted ('not an arena-level act')
True But
The carousel is the genuine text of Macklemore's 6 November 2026 Instagram statement, and its checkable political claims largely hold — Abdul El-Sayed did win Michigan's Senate seat days earlier, and AIPAC-linked spending against him was in the tens of millions. His central claim that nine arenas blocked the tour because of its pro-Palestine purpose remains his own uncorroborated account of private negotiations, which Madison Square Garden disputes.
X · 3,455 likes, 55 replies (X syndication); Mimikama fact check 5 Nov, still circulating in German-language posts
Can't Verify
The image is the genuine ItaMilRadar interference map for 3 November 2026, and its caption accurately describes what multiple defence outlets independently reported: a near-continuous band of strong GPS jamming along NATO's eastern border from the Baltic to the Black Sea. The post correctly avoids naming a culprit, though coverage notes the map cannot identify who caused the interference.
X · 1,341 likes, 395 replies (X syndication, 2026-11-06 ~03:00Z); embedded in HuffPost live blog
True But
The clip is genuine White House footage and the quoted exchange is accurately reported by the Associated Press and other outlets. Trump's on-camera claim that 'Russia is losing civilians also' is technically tinged but misleading, since documented Russian civilian deaths are a small fraction of the Ukrainian civilian toll and it was Russia that invaded.
X · Matecki post 1,831 likes / 327 replies (X syndication, 6 Nov); Jakubiak post 5,317 likes / 476 replies; covered 5 Nov by Konkret24 (st9323475), RMF24, Onet, Wprost, Fakt, Super Express, Dziennik, Niezalezna, TV Republika, wPolityce, Tysol; German ambassador Miguel Berger issued a statement (soldiers
Misleading
The video is genuine self-shot footage of Bundeswehr vehicles on the grounds of the German embassy in Warsaw, a presence the German ambassador publicly confirmed — but the post presents an explained, ceremonial NATO-ally appearance as a sinister, unexplained German military incursion.
X · Al Jazeera Arabic (5 Nov) analysed 750 reactions totalling ~52M views; Trump Jr. quote-post >5.5M views; X syndication shows ~273K likes, ~63K replies (checked 5 Nov); Trump responded via RapidResponse47 clip; Iran's Ghalibaf quote-posted it
True But
The post reproduces JD Vance's 4 November 2026 postmortem of the Republican midterm defeat, and its core factual premises hold up: Democrats did win both chambers with about a 13-point House popular vote margin, and large numbers of 2024 Trump voters did shift to Democrats. His internal campaign data is unpublished and his claim that the Iran war was the reason for the loss is contested interpretation rather than verifiable fact.
X · Konkret24 (4 Nov): the A2 convoy video first got over 380k views on TikTok, then went to X, where the post asking 'Co robią u nas niemieckie wojska?' had over 160k views. 20 Minutes (5 Nov) and Libération CheckNews (4 Nov) also covered the 'German soldiers in Poland' claims.
False
The video is genuine dashcam footage of Bundeswehr vehicles (including a Feldjäger military-police van with 'Y' plates) on a Polish motorway in early November 2026, but the caption's claim that no foreign military exercises are taking place in Poland is false: the convoy belonged to the publicly announced German Grand Eagle 26 road move through Poland to Lithuania, and Poland's defence ministry had announced the multinational Koalicja 26.2 exercise in Poland for 9-22 November 2026.
X · X syndication shows ~106K likes and ~1.1K replies (checked 5 Nov); covered by IBTimes UK (5 Nov), AOL, Annahar and Dagens (4 Nov)
Opinion
The video is an AI-generated satirical clip, posted on 4 November 2026 by Iran's embassy in India to mock Donald Trump after the Republican Party's midterm defeat — not real footage of anything. It is openly comic in intent rather than a disguised factual claim, so the post is best read as hostile political satire.
X · 172 likes on X (syndication, 4 Nov); covered by dev.ua and Hromadske; Kyiv Independent editor confirmed a breach
True
The claim is accurate: Kyiv Independent's editor-in-chief confirmed the outlet's CMS and newsletter service were hacked and a Russian-language email falsely claiming a nuclear warhead had been launched at Kyiv was sent to subscribers, with reporting attributing the operation to Russia. The attached image is a screenshot of that fraudulent email.
X · 613 likes, 19 replies on X (syndication, 4 Nov); copied by other accounts; fact-checked by Misbar and Kashif 4 Nov
Misleading
The video is real firefighting footage, but it is not ADNOC: it shows the June 2016 magnesium-fed warehouse fire in Maywood, California, reposted as a fresh Iranian strike on Emirati oil facilities. The claim is misleading, and Misbar's fact-check reached the same conclusion on 4 November 2026.
X · 3.5K likes, 700 replies on X (syndication, 4 Nov); covered by TVN24, Interia, rp.pl, Onet, Newsweek.pl; Border Guard said nobody tried to cross
True
The video is genuine TVP Info footage of Donald Tusk's 3 November 2026 briefing, and the caption quotes his remarks on intelligence warnings of a possible armed incursion and on 'individuals with flashlights' at the Polish-Russian border essentially verbatim. The one element that outruns the record is the 'foiled provocation' framing: the Border Guard said nobody tried to cross, and Tusk himself said the intent could not be confirmed.