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Afghan police published a video claiming it shows their attacks on the Taliban, but it is actually a video of an American training exercise.

Afghan Police published US Marines video presented as their army striking the Taliban

The Ghazanchesots Cathedral (shown at left) and the Gandja market (at right) were the two civilian structures bombed during the ongoing fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh.

Civilians describe daily toll as war rages in Nagorno-Karabakh

This screenshot of an October 14 Twitter video shows a crowd of Nigerian #EndSARS protesters singing at Lekki Toll Gate in Lagos. However, other peaceful protests in the country have been upended by police violence.

Nigerian protests against police brutality upended by deadly violence

Screengrab of a video posted on Twitter on October 5, showing a group of Turkish ultra-nationalists storming Kurtulus, a neighbourhood in Istanbul that is home to a large Armenian population.

Turkish ultranationalists storm Armenian neighbourhoods in Istanbul as fighting rages in Nagorno-Karabakh

Photos of mail-in ballots mistakenly sent to former residents or dead people have been circulating on social media in the run-up to the US presidential election, raising concerns about potential voter fraud.

'Voter Fraud Alert!' - US voters post photos of their unsolicited mail-in ballots online

Lots of people shared this photo on social media, claiming it showed a 19-year-old named Patrick Nkuriza, who had just been appointed as a minister by Rwandan President Paul Kagame. But the story was completely fabricated.

No, Rwandan President Paul Kagame did not appoint a 19-year-old minister

Iranian police expose suspected criminals in public and humiliate them. (Screengrab of videos shared by eyewitnesses.)

How Iranian police publicly shame suspected criminals

Nearly every day, crowds gather in front of currency exchange offices in Iran.

Violence, suicide and addiction: an unprecedented economic crisis plunges Iranian society into chaos

(Left to right) October 4 Facebook image of David, or “Lunch Brother”, and a friend reading newspapers in protest in front of police; David making "5 demands, not one less" gesture; October 5 image of David protesting at Maritime Square shopping mall.

Teenage Hong Kong activist ‘Lunch Brother’ gains online followers and protest-movement critics

President Donald Trump’s son tweeted this video, alleging that it showed a group of leather-clad bikers praying for Trump. Turns out, that’s not the actual story behind this video. (Screengrab)

Eric Trump shares fake story about leather-clad bikers praying for President Trump

The photo on the left was taken and posted on social media during a protest led by women carrying bouquets of flowers to protest the re-election of the Belarussian president Alexander Lukashenko. The photo on the right was taken by our Observer, Basia.

Women lead the protests against Belarus’s contested election despite violent arrests

Volunteers helping animals who were injured or whose homes were destroyed by fire in the Pantanal, the world’s largest tropical wetlands, spanning a vast terrain in Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay (shared by our Observer Eduarda Fernandes).

Volunteers rush to help animals hurt or displaced by wildfires in Brazil’s Pantanal wetlands

Families exhume the bodies of relatives who died of Covid-19 and were buried in Wadi Al Salam cemetery in Najaf. Some families, however, didn’t find their relatives’ bodies where they were supposed to be buried. (Screengrab, social media)

Iraqi families retrieve bodies of loved ones buried during Covid-19 lockdown

Images from a viral tweet posted by Elijah Schaffer on September 25, 2020 who claimed that they were mail-in ballots thrown in a dumpster in California.

Debunked: Viral photographs do not show a thousand mail-in ballots in California dumpster

These videos aim to prove that carbon dioxide trapped in face masks when we exhale constitutes a health hazard – but the science says otherwise.

Online videos falsely claim that face masks can cause CO2 poisoning

Screengrabs of student demands written on the wall of a university in Dongguan from Twitter (left) and a Weibo video showing students from Xi’an Translation Institute protesting from their dormitories on September 21 (right)

Chinese university students win concessions after protesting campus lockdowns

Screengrab of a 17-second video filmed in southwestern Colombia and posted on social media on September 21.

Four men executed in Colombian mangrove forest amid wave of massacres

This deer collapsed in the middle of a small town after being hunted down by hounds. This still was taken from a video by Fernando Abreu.

New video of a deer being hunted by hounds in France sparks outrage online

In the last weeks of September 2020, Hong Kong Twitter users posted images of mooncakes, milk tea and protest stickers in support of the Yellow Economic Circle pro-democracy movement.

Keeping Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement alive with mooncakes, milk tea and taxis

Social media users claim that the presence of this medication in Africa – even though it hasn’t been authorised for testing in Europe or the United States – is proof that medication is being tested on different continents.

Debunked: This drug is not a Covid-19 vaccine being tested in Africa

Long queues in front of two mobile coronavirus testing centres in the Barbar region (left) and in Manama (right).

Bahrain sees sharp rise in Covid-19 cases after religious holidays

This screengrab shows the map created by Fatiman Alher, which is hosted by Open Street Map.

Meet the geographer from Niger mapping deadly floods to help those who need it

A panorama view of the migrant and refugee camp on the Greek island of Samos

Blocked at a camp in Greece's Samos, refugees demand legal justice

A recent digital ad from the Trump Make America Great Again Committee telling Americans to “support our troops" uses Russian models dressed as soldiers and a Russian jet. Photo analysis from Wassim Nasr

Trump official campaign ad uses Russian planes, guns, and models

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