Shayan Sardarizadeh

Avoid this place in London! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK3LLq2Z5e8

Avoid this place in London! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK3LLq2Z5e8

Compare the YouTube thumbnail with the actual scene in the video.

YouTube video by BBC News X's new location feature exposes misleading politics accounts | Global News Podcast

@thomascopeland.bsky.social and I try to explain why the rollout of user location data by X matters and how it's changing the conversation on the platform after some high-engagement political accounts were criticised for misleading users.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKr3...

How X's new location feature exposed big US politics accounts Dozens of pro-Trump accounts are being accused of misleading followers after the social media site began showing user locations.

Dozens of high-engagement accounts on X, including some pro and anti-Trump users, have been accused of misleading users following the roll-out of a new transparency feature that shows user locations.

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Israel has destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in Gaza since ceasefire Entire neighbourhoods controlled by Israel have been levelled in less than a month, the images show.

Israel has destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in areas of Gaza that have remained under its control since the ceasefire with Hamas started on 10 October, satellite images reviewed by BBC Verify show.

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And this is another similar video from 2024.

It claimed to show Ukrainian soldiers burn an effigy of Donald Trump. Microsoft's Threat Intelligence Team said the video was the work of Russia's Storm-1516 disinformation campaign.

FAKE VIDEO HOLY SHIT 🚨 The United States has sent Ukraine $182.8 billion in aid and this is how they send their appreciation. By placing Trump’s, Musk’s and Vance’s heads on sticks and setting them on fire…

Storm-1516 has produced similar fake videos of "Ukrainian soldiers" targeting senior Republicans in the past.

This fake clip, from earlier this year, shows "soldiers" burning the US flag along with masks of Donald Trump, Elon Musk, JD Vance, Marco Rubio and Lindsey Graham.

FAKE VIDEO A bizarre threat directed at Erika Kirk came from the armed forces of Ukraine! Three soldiers said she should C watch her neck" if she continues to say the LI same things about Ukraine as her late husband did. Charlie Kirk advocated for stopping all financial aid to Ukraine.

A viral online video, which claims to show "Ukrainian soldiers" threaten to kill Charlie Kirk's wife Erika Kirk, is fake.

Not only do the "soldiers" in the clip speak Ukrainian with a notably strong Russian accent, but it has hallmarks of a Russian disinformation campaign known as Storm-1516.

The 20 terrifying minutes endured by train attack passengers BBC Verify uses witness statements and video evidence to piece together a timeline of a devastating stabbing.

We used eyewitness accounts from train passengers and stabbing victims alongside verified video and police statements to build a picture of the 20 minutes when the attack on board a train near Huntingdon unfolded.

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If you search TikTok for Hurricane Melissa videos right now, you'll see a flood of AI-generated and fake videos.

These AI videos include eye of the storm views from above, sharks swimming in floodwaters, huge waves battering towns, destroyed airports, and fake news reports.

The new Pentagon Press Corps will include conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' website Infowars.

It comes after the departure of most mainstream journalists over their refusal to sign up to the department's new restrictive policies on reporting.

Trump demands Hamas disarm, as group moves against 'collaborators' in Gaza BBC Verify analyses footage of Hamas fighters in Gaza, including one of an execution in the centre of Gaza City.

Verified videos from Gaza show a public execution of eight men, armed members of Hamas's internal security force on patrol and masked fighters firing on unarmed men in displays of force by Hamas in Gaza since the US-brokered ceasefire began last week.

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NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

QAnon Shaman says he's rightful president, sues Trump for $40 trillion In a rambling complaint, Jacob Chansley claims DJs are spies, that the NSA stole his work for a Batman movie and more.

Jacob Chansley aka the QAnon Shaman, known for storming the Capitol on Jan 6, has filed a $40 trillion lawsuit against Trump, Musk's X Corp, the Federal Reserve, the IMF, the World Bank, Israel and others, claiming that he's the real leader of the US.

www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/phoenix...

X has restored the account of Gavin McInnes, founder of the Proud Boys group.

McInnes's account was banned by Twitter in August 2018 ahead of the "Unite the Right 2" rally in Washington DC for "violating" its policies on violent extremism.

This is reportedly the X account of Anibal Hernandez Santana, who's suspected of firing shots at a local ABC affiliate news station in Sacramento a day after ABC took Jimmy Kimmel off air.

His timeline features a slew of anti-Trump posts and calls to "fight" the president.

The motive behind Charlie Kirk's killing: What we know and don't know Prosecutors have broadly outlined suspect Tyler Robinson's political views - but many questions remain.

We've tried to explain everything that we know about the potential motive and ideology of Tyler Robinson, accused of killing Charlie Kirk, things we don't know, online profiles of Robinson and his roommate, and speculation by partisans on the left and right.

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What is Antifa and why is Donald Trump targeting it? President Trump says he will designate Antifa as a terror group, but legal experts have questioned whether this is possible.

In the wake of Charlie Kirk's murder, President Trump says he intends to designate Antifa as a "domestic terrorist organisation".

We've tried to explain Antifa's views and activism, and examine if Trump has the legal power to designate the group.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

What do studies on far-right vs far-left political violence in ths US show? Short answer: It's complicated.

Most independent studies say the far-right commit more violence than the far-left, but as it's not easy to define motives and ideologies, it's hard to draw definitive conclusions.

The US Justice Department appears to have removed from its website a study into political violence in America by the National Institute of Justice, the Justice Department’s research agency, which concluded that far-right extremism outpaced “all other types of domestic violent extremism”.

It's several days since many viral posts on this platform claimed without evidence that Tyler Robinson, the suspect in the killing of Charlie Kirk, was a supporter of Nick Fuentes and the Groypers.

There's still not a single piece of evidence that shows Robinson was a Groyper.

Elon Musk has shared an obviously AI-generated image of the Unite the Kingdom rally in London.

The first AI error is that the Arc de Triomphe is in Paris, not London. And once you zoom in, you'll notice that the Union Jacks and the crowd have other errors typical of AI images.

This is the video, first shared by Washingtonian Problems, which President Trump said "is probably AI".

I'd be very surprised if the video were AI-generated. All the details, including the White House, the US flag flying at half mast, the surrounding buildings and the shadows, appear genuine.

I'm no doctor, but Donald Trump looks pretty okay to me for a man who according to some viral posts online:

- had cancer
- had suffered a stroke
- was poisoned by the Russians
- was using a body double
- was dying
- was already dead

It does, however, have this, which makes it all better. Good to see @shayan86.bsky.social agrees with me.

We've analysed videos and writings by Robin Westman, the suspect in the Minneapolis school shooting.

Westman had a clear obsession with death and violence, and idolised mass shooters. Westman wrote references to nearly 20 mass murderers on weapons and ammunition used in the attack.

BBC Verify Live: How we know this image of 'leaders' waiting for Trump is AI Latest updates from the BBC's specialists in fact-checking, verifying video and tackling disinformation.

The AI-generated image of world leaders waiting at the White House: How did it, and the understanding it was fake, spread around the world?

We went through 250+ copies yesterday.

BBC Verify live page:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx...

W/ @robcorp.bsky.social and @olgar.bsky.social.

New batch of emails from Russia's disinformation campaign, which added Chancellor Merz of Germany to its list of targets, which has previously focused on Moldovan president Maia Sandu and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.

BBC Verify Live: How UK police use live facial recognition and videos show typhoon hitting Taiwan Latest updates from the BBC's specialists in fact-checking, verifying video and tackling disinformation.

Massive explosion, Khan Yunis, Gaza Strip, overnight Tues-Weds.

BBC Verify live page entry with @emmapengelly.bsky.social this morning: www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...

But how do we, and how can you, know what's what? (Call it OSint if you like.)

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Sorting real, contemporary images from the old and fake, during yesterday's earthquake in Russia and the tsunami which, thankfully, didn't happen.

With @paulybrown.bsky.social, @shayan86.bsky.social, @biancabritton.bsky.social.

Tech giants blocking some Ukraine and Gaza posts under new online rules Tech companies are restricting debates of public interest to comply the Online Safety Act, analysis shows.

A wide range of public interest content, including posts about the conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine and parliamentary debates on grooming gangs, is now being blocked for UK online users by social media companies trying to comply with the Online Safety Act.

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