June 12th, 2025 | No Comments »
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.
Published in Technology
Tags: Boeing, Fact Check, India, miscaptioned, Misrepresented Viral Video, Plane Crash
May 1st, 2025 | No Comments »
A rumor that a number of celebrities — Young Thug, Kendall Jenner, Tom Cruise, Jameis Winston, Drew Desbordes and Angel Reese — would be aboard the next Blue Origin flight in May 2025 circulated online in April 2025.
Claim: A number of celebrities, including Young Thug, Kendall Jenner and Tom Cruise, will be aboard Blue Origin’s next flight in May 2025.
One X post making the claim, by the user @DailyNoud, had received more than 8.6 million views as of this writing:
(X account @DailyNoud)
Variations of the rumor spread on TikTok as well.
Some readers seemed to interpret the rumor as a factual recounting of real-life events. However, there was no evidence Blue Origin made such an announcement. Blue Origin has not publicly announced any details regarding celebrity passengers on future flights. The link on the post directs users to a Blue Origin news release regarding the company’s April 14, 2025, flight.
Rather, the rumor about Young Thug and others originated with Daily Noud — a social media account that describes its output as being humorous or satirical in nature. Its bio states:
#1 Source For PARODY Hip-Hop News | Follow For Viral Content | These are fake stories
The fictional story spread after Blue Origin successfully launched six women — including pop star Katy Perry and TV host Gayle King — on April 14.
Daily Noud has a history of making up stories for shares and comments.
Conclusion: We labeled Satire.
Published in Technology
Tags: Blue Origin, Fact Check, Not Necessarily The News, Satire, space, Tom Cruise
April 13th, 2025 | No Comments »
Throughout the years, social media users have spread a rumor that a video authentically shows the grandchildren of Grammy Award-winning musical group the Bee Gees singing one of their songs, “How Deep Is Your Love.”
Claim: A video authentically showed the grandchildren of Grammy Award-winning musical group the Bee Gees singing “How Deep Is Your Love.”
A X post from April 9, 2025, that included the video was captioned, “The Bee Gee’s grandsons – WOW!!!!” We found the video previously posted to other social media platforms making the same claim, including also YouTube and TikTok posts from 2023.
However, the video didn’t show the Bee Gees’ grandchildren singing “How Deep Is Your Love.” Rather, it was a cover recording of the song by Ky Baldwin, a singer and actor from Australia.
Baldwin has posted videos of his covers of various songs for years, often using a cloning visual effect like the one used in the one above. For example, he posted a cover of the Backstreet Boys’ “I Want It That Way” to Instagram in July 2023, with the caption, “Cloned a couple more Ky’s for this one #iwantitthatway #backstreetboys #vfx.”
We found the “How Deep Is Your Love” video posted to Baldwin’s TikTok account on Sept. 6, 2023. At the time of this writing, Baldwin’s original post had over 24 million views and didn’t mention anything about the grandchildren of the Bee Gees.
We labeled Miscaptioned.
In another video posted to Baldwin’s TikTok account in October 2023, he said he doesn’t have brothers nor was he related to the Bee Gees.
Published in Creatives, Technology
Tags: Clones, Fact Check, miscaptioned, Music
