In July 2025, Scott Whitehead, a man who described himself as an “animal expert” in his social media bios, posted a video of a pair of mountain lions, also called cougars or pumas, walking in the snow. According to Whitehead, the mountain lions were “mysteriously migrating south from Yellowstone to Utah.”

Internet users viewed the video Whitehead posted to Facebook more than 6.5 million times, while his video on Instagram racked up more than 156,000 likes by the time of this writing.

Many people took Whitehead’s claim seriously. Searches about mountain lions leaving Yellowstone National Park started trending on Google, and an X account with more than 1 million followers reposted it.

However, this was not a video of Yellowstone mountain lions migrating south to Utah. There was no evidence that the park’s small mountain lion population was “mysteriously” leaving the area, either. As a result, we’ve rated the video miscaptioned.

The video first appeared online on May 22, 2025, when a Chilean photographer shared it to Instagram. In the caption, the photographer wrote in Spanish that the video was recorded in Torres del Paine, a national park full of glaciers and mountains in southern Chile. That same account posted other photos and videos of mountain lions from the same region in May and June 2025.

There are mountain lions in Yellowstone, however; the National Park Service estimated on an informational webpage that only 29 to 45 cougars stay in Yellowstone National Park year-round, while some others enter it seasonally — in contrast to the “hundreds” Whitehead claimed were migrating in the video. The mountain lions in the park are “seldom seen,” according to the NPS.

Mountain lions anywhere do migrate and move around. About 99% of young male mountain lions disperse 50 to 400 miles from the place of their birth at about a year and a half old, according to the NPS webpage. Even within Yellowstone, cougars follow their main prey from the higher elevations in the summer to the lower elevations in the winter.

A Google search for “mountain lions leaving Yellowstone” found no mainstream news sources reporting on the apparent migration, even though such publications would surely report on such unusual behavior. Most of the search results were social media posts, fact-checks and sites that cited Whitehead as their source.

We found that the video Whitehead was speaking over was miscaptioned.

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In mid-June 2025, a rumour circulated on Facebook claiming former U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower once said, “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.”

For example, Robert Reich, former United States Secretary of Labor, posted the quote on his Facebook page, receiving over 80,000 reactions within two days. Two other Facebook posts attributed the quote to Eisenhower.

Historical records confirm that Eisenhower delivered this statement during a presidential address and primary sources document the quote’s authenticity. As a result, we’ve rated the attribution correct.

Eisenhower delivered the quote during his “Chance for Peace” speech, also known as the “Cross of Iron” speech, before the American Society of Newspaper Editors on April 16, 1953. The address came after the death of Soviet leader Josef Stalin, as Eisenhower sought to present an alternative to the Cold War arms race.

The website of the Miller Center, a nonpartisan institution at the University of Virginia, hosted audio of the full speech. The quote in question appears starting around the 11:17 mark.

The American Presidency Project also hosted transcripts of Eisenhower’s address. The Eisenhower Presidential Library listed the quote as authentic and also hosted audio of Eisenhower saying the quote in question.

Eisenhower delivered the speech from the Statler Hotel in Washington, D.C., and television and radio broadcast it nationwide. In the speech, Eisenhower presented a choice between military buildup and investment in human welfare.

The passage containing the quote read (emphasis ours):

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

Eisenhower continued by suggesting different things the money used on weapons could pay for:

The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.

He concluded this section by stating: “This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.”

Despite the hopes Eisenhower expressed in the “Chance for Peace” speech, the Cold War continued to intensify during his presidency. By the time he left office in 1961, he felt compelled to deliver another warning about the “military-industrial complex” in his farewell address — a speech that bookended his presidency’s concerns about militarization.

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Watch out for video claiming to show Air India plane’s final moments before Ahmedabad crash. One video has been circulating after the June 2025 crash actually showed a plane crash in Nepal in 2023.

Claim: A video authentically showed the final moments before India Air Flight AI-171 crashed in Ahmedabad on June 12, 2025.

On June 12, as news emerged that an Air India flight bound for London crashed shortly after takeoff in Ahmedabad, India, a video circulated online claiming to authentically show the final moments before the crash from inside the cabin.

(X user @MonitorX99800)

The video showed a man inside an airplane cabin smiling and showing the view when, suddenly, the phone he was holding appeared to tumble out of his hand. The video ended with flames and smoke visible in the frame.

The video circulated mainly on Facebook and X.

However, the video was miscaptioned. The footage first circulated on Jan. 15, 2023, and shows the final moments before Yeti Airlines Flight 691 crashed in Pokhara, Nepal, killing all 68 passengers and four crew members on board. The footage does not show the inside of the Air India Boeing 787 that crashed on June 12, 2025, while carrying 242 people.

The footage, sourced from a livestream by Sonu Jaiswal who was a passenger on Flight 691, was widely reported as authentic at the time of the Yeti Airlines crash.

Taiwan FactCheck Center published a video geolocating the footage four days after the crash.

Satellite imagery on Google Earth confirmed that the video circulating in June 2025 was recorded in Pokhora, Nepal, not Ahmedabad, India. We used a longer version of the video to replicate Taiwan FactCheck Center’s geolocation.

(Google Earth/X user @manishkhosiya illustration)

A report on the Yeti Airlines crash compiled by Nepal’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Commission found that the plane crashed after pilots mistakenly cut power, leading to an aerodynamic stall — essentially meaning the plane lost lift.

At the time of this writing, rescue work was still ongoing on the ground in Ahmedabad to recover passengers and crew from the Air India Flight AI-171 crash. According to The Associated Press, casualties included at least five people on the ground as the crashing flight hit a medical college. The cause of the crash was under investigation.

 

 

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