The daily check-in

Trending, checked.

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.

18 checks

Were a Gaza mass wedding and flooded tents really filmed just hours apart?

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.

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Did a fire on the Karmabhoomi Express near Rajpura, Punjab, kill many people?

X · Google Trends IN "कर्मभूमि एक्सप्रेस" 2000+ (6 Nov); NewsX, PGurus coverage; post 544 likes

Misleading

The video shows genuine footage of the 6 November 2026 fire that gutted four coaches of the Karmabhoomi Express near Rajpura in Punjab, but the caption's suggestion that many people died is wrong — officials confirmed no casualties or injuries.

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Was Tel Aviv completely submerged by storms, as this video claims?

X · Primary 1,233 likes (X syndication, 4 Nov); identical copy-paste reposts 2 Nov; Arabic versions; Misbar fact-check 3 Nov says footage is a Las Vegas dust storm/flood (RT Arabic posted the Las Vegas clip 1 Nov)

False

The video is real but it is not Israel: it shows the 30 October 2026 dust storm and flash floods in Las Vegas, Nevada, with the Paris Las Vegas Eiffel Tower replica plainly visible. The caption's claim that Tel Aviv was completely submerged with 20 billion dollars of damage is false and was debunked by the fact-checker Misbar.

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Did Google list Lenny Kravitz as dead in the West Palm Beach plane crash?

X · 2,604 likes (syndication); rumour covered 2 Nov by Univision, TV Azteca, La Nación (CL), 24horas, Tiempo de San Juan, TuNota; Kravitz's team denied it

Misleading

The screenshot does capture a real, briefly erroneous Google knowledge panel entry for Lenny Kravitz, but the post's insinuation is wrong: Kravitz is alive — his publicist called the death reports 'untrue and incorrect' — and crash victims were publicly named within a day of the 1 November 2026 Learjet crash.

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Was the Learjet 60 that crashed in Florida missing a wing and its right engine cowling?

X · 1,893 likes; crash near Mar-a-Lago widely covered, other AI/missile claims checked by PolitiFact

False

The attached video is an openly labelled computer-generated reconstruction of the Learjet 60's final descent, not real footage; the caption's suggestion that the jet was flying without a wing and with the right engine cowling missing is false — it rests on an AI-processed still that fact-checkers showed was fabricated from dashcam video in which both wings are visible.

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Did a jet collide with a fire truck at LaGuardia in a new mass casualty incident?

X · Reposted in English, Portuguese and Arabic; 44 likes on primary (X syndication, 2 Nov)

Misleading

The video and caption are recycled verbatim from the 22-23 March 2026 Air Canada Express crash at LaGuardia Airport in Queens, where a landing jet struck a fire truck, killing both pilots and injuring dozens. Posted with a #BREAKING tag on 2 November 2026, it falsely implies a new mass-casualty incident is unfolding now.

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Did a Delta CRJ-900 just crash and flip upside down at Toronto Pearson?

X · Spanish and Arabic 'breaking' posts; 106 likes on primary (X syndication, 2 Nov)

Misleading

The clip is genuine passenger footage of the 17 February 2025 Delta Flight 4819 crash at Toronto Pearson, but the post sells it as a new '#BREAKING' incident roughly 21 months later — a fact-check published on 2 November 2026 found the same video being passed off as recent.

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Did the plane that crashed near Mar-a-Lago change course and head for Trump's estate?

X · About 9.4K likes and 786 replies (X syndication, 2 Nov); TotalProSports story on the speculation; IBTimes UK and AOL covered related missile and air-defence rumours

Misleading

The crash of Learjet N722BD near Palm Beach on 1 November 2026 is real and killed all nine aboard, but the post's 'plot' framing is misleading: flight data and reporting show the jet stayed on its Bahamas routing and lost control in a steep right-hand dive after reporting icing, not a deliberate course change toward Mar-a-Lago.

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Were these the computers monitoring the section of the Toledo train crash?

X · Spread by journalist Javier Negre amid national debate over the Urda crash; Google autocomplete already offers 'ordenadores adif bulo'; images taken from a The Objective article

Misleading

The photograph is a real image of old railway technical equipment published by The Objective, but the claim that it shows the computers monitoring the stretch of the 28 October 2026 Urda (Toledo) train crash is not established — Adif says the LZB computers look nothing like it and describes the pictured set-up as an industrial interface in a local operations post. The caption therefore recontextualises genuine imagery into a stronger, partly contested claim about who is to blame.

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Did the 28 October 2026 fire at the Savannah River Site nuclear lab in South Carolina cause an unfiltered radiological release that poses a danger beyond the site, as viral 'US Government Nuclear Incident' posts suggest?

X · hntrbrkmedia post 8,113 likes (syndication, 29 Oct ~02:40Z, ~2.5h after posting); nicksortor 2,468 likes; MarioNawfal 2,059 likes; covered by NY Post, Washington Examiner, Townhall, GB News, Mirror ('Panic as radioactive material released'), Fox Carolina; 'savannah river site' on Google Trends CA RS

True

The post is accurate: on 28 October 2026 the FAA issued a temporary flight restriction over the Department of Energy's Savannah River Site, and its notice cited a 'US Government Nuclear Incident' after a fire at the site's national laboratory. Multiple independent outlets, including Reuters and CNN, corroborated both the emergency declaration and the flight restriction.

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What happened during the serious incident at Canadian military base?

TikTok · TikTok page: 209,200 plays, 5,665 likes, 3,328 shares, 351 comments; AFP says the same fireball clip spread in montages on TikTok, Facebook and X (some French captions)

True But

The post correctly reports that a serious incident at CFB Wainwright on Oct 17, 2026 produced a major fire and was confirmed by the Prime Minister — that outcome is corroborated by official Canadian government statements and multiple news outlets. However, the video is a montage that mixes footage from different sources/locations and at least some clips appear not to be from Wainwright, so the visuals are misleading.

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Did a wooden cross fall on a priest during mass in Guayaquil?

X · @MinMedio post: 6,313 likes, 428 replies (syndication). @Osint613 English repost: 1,874 likes, 280 replies. Picked up 18 Oct by g1, O Globo, Metrópoles, Newsweek, The Sun, Marca, Gulf News, GhanaWeb, Tuko and others.

True

A video shows a wooden cross detaching and falling during a mass in Guayaquil; multiple reputable outlets and the Arquidiócesis de Guayaquil confirm that the priest, identified as Patricio Alfredo Sánchez Molinari, died after the incident on 17 October 2026.

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What happened in Ankara during the heavy rains on June 3, 2023?

X · Turkish 'Son Dakika' post 850 likes (X syndication); Arabic copies also circulating. Kashif traced the clip to June 2023 Ankara floods. Istanbul's heaviest rain in decades is trending (Google Trends AE 'flash flood' 500+). · resurfaced

True

The video is authentic footage from heavy rains in Ankara on 3 June 2023 showing floodwaters entering a low-level apartment and pouring out through its balcony (breaking windows). Multiple Turkish and international news outlets reported the same clip and date.

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What happened to Hassan Karim at Six Flags Over Georgia?

X · 1.75K likes, 174 replies (X syndication, 15 Oct). Six Flags death is still in the news: Newsweek and NY Post follow-ups on 15 Oct as the park reopens.

True But

Confirmed: Cobb County Police and multiple reputable news outlets report that 42-year-old Hassan Jihad Ibn Kariem was ejected from the Goliath roller coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia on Oct 12, 2026, and died. The video’s broad claims align with official accounts, though one detail (which family member rode with him) is reported inconsistently across outlets.

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Did Dodger Stadium flood due to Hurricane Rachel?

X · X post: 1.2K likes (syndication, 2026-10-13). The Weather Channel/Yahoo debunk on 12 Oct says the clip is circulating again, as it did during Hilary in 2023 (it shows wet, empty parking lots). Autocomplete shows heavy search interest.

Misleading

Aerial footage in the post is likely genuine but the caption’s claim that Dodger Stadium was surrounded by floodwaters is misleading: weather reporting and visual-analysis conclude the stadium did not actually flood and the scene is an optical/lighting effect amplified by standing water nearby.

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Is a video showing ocean waves flooding a parking lot near Huntington Beach authentic?

X · 19,064 likes (X syndication, 2026-10-10); Hindustan Times 'Huntington Beach hit by tsunami waves? Truth behind viral video' (Google News, 10 Oct); TV Azteca, Minuto60

True But

The video plausibly shows high surf overtopping the shoreline and flooding a beachfront parking lot near Huntington Beach; the footage appears authentic and matches contemporaneous reporting of strong swell along Southern California in 2026, but the exact original upload/date for this specific clip was not located.

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Does this video show a mountain collapse in Nepal?

X · Hindi caption 'नेपाल में पहाड़ के ढहने का भयावह दृश्य'. Spread on X and Instagram; part of a wave of disputed disaster footage in the region (Nepal and Bihar floods, Rajasthan storms).

Can't Verify

The clip plausibly shows a real hillside collapse and mudflow, but I could not confirm that this particular video was filmed in Nepal. Multiple recent news items report landslides in Nepal, but no authoritative source was found that ties this exact footage to a Nepali location — the video's geographic attribution is therefore unsupported.

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Did a video show a Houthi strike on Yanbu Industrial City?

X · About a dozen separate clips claimed as Houthi strikes on Riyadh, Yanbu, Jizan and Riyadh airport circulated 28-30 Sep amid a live escalation; Saudi autocomplete suggests 'الحوثي يقصف الرياض' and 'الحوثي يقصف مطار الرياض'.

Misleading

The video shows a real, large fire but is being circulated with a caption that claims it depicts a Houthi strike on Yanbu Industrial City; Arabic fact-checkers have flagged the clip as unrelated/out-of-context, so the post's caption is misleading.

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