copenlu/druid huggingface dataset:
Claim: A post shared on Instagram claims to show a Ukrainian tank disguised as a house. (Viral Video, 2023-06-05)
Evidence (2022-05-19): If Your Time is short - Another clip from the video game Arma 3 is being mischaracterized. Social media posts claim it shows Russian tanks getting destroyed. That’s wrong. [...] A recent Facebook post shared a video featuring combat scenes and alleged that it is footage of a "Russian tank column totally destroyed by attack helicopter." [...] The claim that a video shows a Russian tank column totally destroyed by an attack helicopter is wrong. We rate it False.
Claim: A post shared on Instagram claims to show a Ukrainian tank disguised as a house. (Viral Video, 2023-06-05)
Evidence (2022-02-26): Another low-tech option is to stage or pose actions or events and present them as reality. This was the case with destroyed vehicles that Russia claimed were bombed by Ukraine. [...] Taking things further still, Photoshop or equivalent software can be used to add or remove people or objects from a scene, or to crop elements out from a photograph. An example of object addition is the below photograph, which purports to show construction machinery outside a kindergarten in eastern Ukraine. The satirical text accompanying the image jokes about the "calibre of the construction machinery" - the author suggesting that reports of damage to buildings from military ordinance are exaggerated or untrue. Close inspection reveals this image was digitally altered to include the machinery. This tweet could be seen as an attempt to downplay the extent of damage resulting from a Russian-backed missile attack, and in a wider context to create confusion and doubt as to veracity of other images emerging from the conflict zone.
Claim: A post shared on Instagram claims to show a Ukrainian tank disguised as a house. (Viral Video, 2023-06-05)
Evidence (2022-02-25): Ukraine conflict: Further false images shared online [...] It claims to show Ukrainian troops "facing off" with Russian soldiers at an airbase. [...] One video, which was posted on both Facebook and Twitter from an unofficial account supporting Ukraine's armed forces, claims to show the destruction of Russian personnel and equipment in Ukraine, as seen through a drone aircraft's gunsight.
Claim: A post shared on Instagram claims to show a Ukrainian tank disguised as a house. (Viral Video, 2023-06-05)
Evidence (2022-02-28): This requires no special software or technical skills – just a willingness to upload an old video of a missile attack or other arresting image, and describe it as new footage. Another low-tech option is to stage or pose actions or events and present them as reality. This was the case with destroyed vehicles that Russia claimed were bombed by Ukraine. Using a particular lens or vantage point can also change how the scene looks and can be used to deceive. A tight shot of people, for example, can make it hard to gauge how many were in a crowd, compared with an aerial shot. Taking things further still, Photoshop or equivalent software can be used to add or remove people or objects from a scene, or to crop elements out from a photograph. An example of object addition is the below photograph, which purports to show construction machinery outside a kindergarten in eastern Ukraine. The satirical text accompanying the image jokes about the "calibre of the construction machinery" – the author suggesting that reports of damage to buildings from military ordinance are exaggerated or untrue. Close inspection reveals this image was digitally altered to include the machinery.
Claim: A post shared on Instagram claims to show a Ukrainian tank disguised as a house. (Viral Video, 2023-06-05)
Evidence (2022-05-18): A video being shared on Facebook claims to show soldiers destroying a Russian tank in an ambush. [...] But this isn’t real footage of the war in Ukraine. [...] While some commenters on the Facebook post shared their well-wishes for Ukrainian soldiers with encouragement like, "Keep fighting until you win the war," others looking at the post weren’t fooled.
Claim: A post shared on Instagram claims to show a Ukrainian tank disguised as a house. (Viral Video, 2023-06-05)
Evidence (2022-03-08): Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine unleashed a torrent of false and misleading information from both sides of the conflict. Viral social media posts claiming to show video of a Ukrainian fighter pilot who shot down six Russian planes — the so-called "Ghost of Kyiv" — were actually drawn from a video game. Ukrainian government officials said 13 border patrol officers guarding an island in the Black Sea were killed by Russian forces after unleashing a defiant obscenity, only to acknowledge a few days later that the soldiers were alive and had been captured by Russian forces. [...] Searches for examples of the misleading videos came up empty across social media and elsewhere. Tellingly, none of the supposed debunking videos cite a single example of the Ukrainian fakes being shared on social media or elsewhere. Examination of the metadata of two videos found on Telegram appears to provide an explanation for that absence: Whoever created these videos simply duplicated the original footage to create the alleged Ukrainian fake. [...] Another video that circulated on Russian nationalist Telegram channels such as @rlz_the_kraken, which has more than 200,000 subscribers, claimed to show that fake explosions were added to footage of buildings in Kyiv. The explosions and smoke were clearly fabricated, and the video claims they were added by Ukraininans.
Claim: A post shared on Instagram claims to show a Ukrainian tank disguised as a house. (Viral Video, 2023-06-05)
Evidence (2022-02-28): Different versions of a video claiming to show Kyiv residents fighting Russian motorised infantry with Molotov cocktails went viral on multiple platforms over the weekend. It led many users to believe it showed clashes between Ukrainian citizens and Russian forces, and was shared by two British MPs. [...] It was taken by a volunteer photographer for the Ukrainian defence ministry who was later dismissed over allegations that he had staged some of his combat images.
Claim: A post shared on Instagram claims to show a Ukrainian tank disguised as a house. (Viral Video, 2023-06-05)
Evidence (2023-06-13): - A viral video of a Russian Lancet drone strike claimed to show a Ukrainian tank being destroyed. [...] - The "tank" was made of empty boxes from 155 mm shells, Lt Cmdr Oleksandr Afanasyev told Insider. [...] The only problem? The "tank" was a decoy made out of wood, according to Ukraine's Lieutenant Commander Oleksandr Afanasyev.
Claim: A post shared on Instagram claims to show a Ukrainian tank disguised as a house. (Viral Video, 2023-06-05)
Evidence (2023-06-05): No, Ukraine’s military is not camouflaging tanks as houses [...] A June 5 Instagram reel shows a house moving through a grassy field. Text on the post reads, "a Ukrainian tank uses a house as camouflage." [...] We rate the claim that a Ukrainian tank is using a house as camouflage False.
Claim: A post shared on Instagram claims to show a Ukrainian tank disguised as a house. (Viral Video, 2023-06-05)
Evidence (2023-06-22): FACT CHECK: No, Video Does Not Show A Ukrainian Tank Disguised As A House [...] The text in the video reads, "A Ukrainian tank uses a house as camouflage." This video, however, shows a house on wheels created by a Ukrainian civilian. The house was featured in news reports before the Russian invasion began in February 2022. For example, the Ukrainian outlet 34 телеканал ran a news segment on the machine in September 2020 and shared it on its YouTube channel.
Claim: A post shared on Instagram claims to show a Ukrainian tank disguised as a house. (Viral Video, 2023-06-05)
Evidence (2022-04-13): For example, the police have warned residents of Kyiv that Russian occupiers leave special signs to indicate potential targets for attacks. My 21-year-old cousin subsequently posted a video on Instagram that showed how she found such a sign on her car and burned it. Following authorities’ instructions, people take down road signs to confuse the enemy, prepare Molotov cocktails, and reveal Russian soldiers disguised in Ukrainian uniform by asking them questions in the Ukrainian language. The courage and creativity of my compatriots inspires me. How can anyone defeat a country where women yell at fully-armed Russian soldiers and demand them to leave their country, Roma people steal Russian tanks, local thugs seize Russia’s military vehicles and give them to the army, homeless people collect empty bottles for Molotov cocktails, farmers use their tractors to steal Russia’s armored carriers, children and adults make camouflage nets for Ukrainian soldiers, people rally at their occupied towns, kicking out the occupiers with their bare hands, residents block convoys with tractors and sandbags, and people block roads with their own bodies to prevent Russian tanks from entering their cities? [...] The videos of Russian tanks stuck in a swamp, war prisoners forced to say "Slava Ukraiini" ("Glory to Ukraine") on camera, or lost soldiers, who came to the police office to ask for fuel for their tank, have gone viral and keep our spirits high. Even the National Agency for the Protection against Corruption has resorted to mockery, assuring citizens that there is no need to declare captured Russian tanks as income.
Claim: A post shared on Instagram claims to show a Ukrainian tank disguised as a house. (Viral Video, 2023-06-05)
Evidence (2024-08-08): Video posted by a pro-war Russian Telegram channel appeared to show Western military vehicles near Ukraine’s border inside Kursk, describing them as part of the incursion. The footage showed at least one U.S.-provided Stryker and a German Mardar fighting vehicle on the Russian side of the border. Ukrainian forces appeared to have marked their equipment for Kursk with painted white triangles. The Washington Post could not independently verify when the footage was recorded. Drone video published on Instagram by a regiment in Ukraine’s military purported to show Russian soldiers in Kursk surrendering. Personnel from Ukrainian units believed to be fighting in Kursk declined to comment, saying operational secrecy was to their advantage.
Claim: A post shared on Instagram claims to show a Ukrainian tank disguised as a house. (Viral Video, 2023-06-05)
Evidence (2014-08-25): Russian column 'disguised as separatists' enters Ukraine Ukrainian troops are battling a Russian military column disguised as separatist fighters that had crossed into Ukraine and was heading towards the city of Mariupol, a Ukrainian military spokesman said Monday. Russia has denied the claims. [...] "This morning there was an attempt by the Russian military, in the guise of Donbas fighters, to open a new area of military confrontation in the southern Donetsk region," spokesman Andriy Lysenko told journalists.
Claim: A post shared on Instagram claims to show a Ukrainian tank disguised as a house. (Viral Video, 2023-06-05)
Evidence (2017-08-01): I’m not as good a runner as I used to be. This revelation came somewhere between the ninth and first floors of a murky, bomb-ravaged building located at the edge of no-man’s land in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine.I began scrambling downstairs after our sentinel, positioned nearby, yelled "run!" I did not ask why, or linger to consider how only minutes before we had inched up these very same stairs, stepping carefully in each other’s footsteps to avoid setting off any booby-traps secreted to maim, mutilate, or murder anyone scouting this abandoned edifice. Children’s toys, full bottles of alcohol and other seemingly innocuous household items can be the disguised agents of destruction, something I learned a few days earlier at the Ukrainian Armed Forces Demining Centre in Kamyanets-Podilsky. No matter. I ran for my life.It was only after I got outside and turned a corner into the comparative safety of shadows behind the building that I was told a Russian tank had emerged from the distant rubble, maneuvering to take a shot. We didn’t offer the enemy a chance for target practice.What surprised me was that I experienced no fear. Instead I was quite resigned.
Claim: A post shared on Instagram claims to show a Ukrainian tank disguised as a house. (Viral Video, 2023-06-05)
Evidence (2023-11-14): CLAIM: A video shows a soldier being thrown to the ground as an airstrike hits an Israeli tank. [...] This is not the first time clips of video game footage have been misrepresented as a real-life war. Video of the military simulation game Arma 3 has been shared as both footage of the latest Middle East conflict as well as the war in Ukraine.
Claim: A post shared on Instagram claims to show a Ukrainian tank disguised as a house. (Viral Video, 2023-06-05)
Evidence (2023-06-15): Manipulation Ukrainian military disguise tanks as houses Users of social networks, in particular the American segment of Instagram, spread a video showing a house driving across a field, and added the inscription: "Ukrainian tank uses the house as camouflage". The author of the publication believes that the video allegedly shows military equipment disguised as a Ukrainian house. This is manipulation. The case was investigated by the fact-checkers of the PolitiFact project. They determined that there was no Ukrainian tank disguised as a house in the video. In fact, this is a car, namely the Zaporozhets, which, back in 2020, a family from near Dnipro turned into a "mobile home". Craftsmen decorated it with Petrykivka painting, and placed icons and embroidered towels inside. A reverse search also showed that the video, dated 2020, was filmed by TV Channel 34. The Instagram post was labeled as the "False Information" one.
Claim: A post shared on Instagram claims to show a Ukrainian tank disguised as a house. (Viral Video, 2023-06-05)
Evidence (2023-10-30): Ukrainian officials have similarly dismissed the notion that its country’s arms have somehow found their way to Hamas. The country’s military intelligence agency, in an Oct. 9 post on its official Facebook page, accused Russia of plotting a disinformation campaign around these claims. [...] "I see no reason Ukraine would do this," said Michael O’Hanlon, director of foreign policy research at the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank. "Starting with the fact that Kiev is in the business of obtaining weapons and not giving them away." [...] An Instagram post claimed the opposite, stating: "These terrorists are dressing up as JEWISH soldiers to create fake videos about Israeli soldiers! Faking Propaganda!"
Claim: Claims that Mitch McConnell has "blocked every single piece of legislation to protect the 2020 election from foreign interference." (Occupy Democrats, 2019-06-12)
Evidence (2019-06-12): While McConnell has declined to take up a number of bills related to election security, the Senate passed the Defending Elections Against Trolls from Enemy Regimes (DETER) Act on June 3. Congress also allocated $380 million to shore up election security in the 2018 omnibus with McConnell’s support.
Claim: Claims that Mitch McConnell has "blocked every single piece of legislation to protect the 2020 election from foreign interference." (Occupy Democrats, 2019-06-12)
Evidence (2019-06-18): FACT CHECK: Has Mitch McConnell Blocked Every Bill Intended To Prevent Foreign Interference In The 2020 Election? The Facebook page Occupy Democrats shared a meme that claims Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has "blocked every single piece of legislation to protect the 2020 election from foreign interference." [...] Nonetheless, McConnell has not blocked "every single piece of legislation" related to election security as the meme suggests.
Claim: Claims that Mitch McConnell has "blocked every single piece of legislation to protect the 2020 election from foreign interference." (Occupy Democrats, 2019-06-12)
Evidence (2019-07-30): But despite the string of warnings, Congress has yet to take any meaningful action to address the threat. As the 2020 elections approach, it’s not clear whether America will be any better prepared than it was in 2016. A number of lawmakers have sponsored legislation to help secure the 2020 elections, including measures focusing on online political ads, paper ballots, and voting machine security. But one person has stood in the way of these bills becoming law: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY). The day after Mueller’s warnings, the Democrats pounced on the opportunity to push through two measures addressing the issue. One would have authorized $775 million to go to states in preparation of 2020 and require them to create paper trails of votes. A second would have required campaign officials to report any foreign interference or attempted interference to the FBI. But as the story goes with McConnell and anything even remotely resembling campaign finance reform, he shot them down. [...] McConnell is arguably the most powerful person blocking any efforts to stop the Russian threat. The primary concern from Republicans, including McConnell, has been that these measures give too much power to the federal government to govern elections. From a conservative perspective, that makes sense. Last Thursday, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) told reporters that he would have supported the bill Schumer tried to bring up if the "things in it that federalize state elections" were removed. McConnell has made similar remarks.
Claim: Claims that Mitch McConnell has "blocked every single piece of legislation to protect the 2020 election from foreign interference." (Occupy Democrats, 2019-06-12)
Evidence (2020-09-18): In 2020, his position has changed. He will no longer wait for the American people to decide in the next election. [...] Interview with Doug Andres, McConnell spokesman, Sept. 21, 2020 [...] Tweet from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Sept. 18, 2020
Claim: Claims that Mitch McConnell has "blocked every single piece of legislation to protect the 2020 election from foreign interference." (Occupy Democrats, 2019-06-12)
Evidence (2021-11-08): McConnell’s vote on impeachment, which infuriated some of his closest backers, made clear his calculus that he couldn’t challenge Trump, even at the former president’s most vulnerable moment, a sign of the MAGA hold on the party electorate and many in McConnell’s own caucus. He opposed a bipartisan Jan. 6 investigation, blocked three bills Democrats put forward to counter restrictive GOP voting laws driven by Trump’s false fraud claims and endorsed a Trump-backed 2022 Senate candidate who echoed the false claim that the election was stolen. [...] The power McConnell now holds dovetails with helping Trump. And few efforts are more important to the former president and the GOP than blocking Democratic measures to expand voting rights and protections. [...] McConnell, who has rejected Trump’s assertion that the election was fraudulent, nonetheless went on to echo a key Trump claim, saying, "There is considerable evidence that voter fraud still exists. [Democrats] act like it is nonexistent." In fact, voter fraud is rare, and dozens of court challenges and several extensive state ballot reviews have produced no evidence of widespread fraud in the 2020 election. Indeed, McConnell acknowledged later in the interview that it is "fairly rare" due to ballot security measures.
Claim: Claims that Mitch McConnell has "blocked every single piece of legislation to protect the 2020 election from foreign interference." (Occupy Democrats, 2019-06-12)
Evidence (2019-06-21): McConnell Faces Internal Pressure On Blockade Of Election Security Legislation [...] Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has set up a successful blockade against virtually all legislation supported by Democrats. That strategy is facing internal pressure when it comes to election security bills. NPR congressional correspondent Susan Davis has this report. [...] DAVIS: When it comes to gun control, immigration or climate change, Republicans have rallied around McConnell's blockade. But Democrats are planning a new push on election security bills, and that might not be as easy to ignore. Intelligence officials, including FBI Director Christopher Wray, warn Russia will try again in 2020. And some Republicans also want to take further action to deter foreign actors from trying to mess with U.S. elections. That includes Maine Senator Susan Collins.
Claim: Claims that Mitch McConnell has "blocked every single piece of legislation to protect the 2020 election from foreign interference." (Occupy Democrats, 2019-06-12)
Evidence (2020-12-29): In late December 2020, as U.S. President Donald Trump entered the final month of his presidency and Washington, D.C., prepared for the incoming administration of Joe Biden and the 117th Congress, left-leaning and moderate Republican commentators online shared a quotation attributed to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. The quotation presented the Kentucky Republican, by his own admission, opposing Democratic legislative efforts on purely partisan grounds. [...] BREAKING NEWS. Dateline 12/25/20 Louisville. Kentucky Colonel and Senator, Mitch McConnell, in a small gathering of mega rich donors, reaffirmed his vow to block every bill from the Democrats. "Even if I feel it's a good bill. They shall have no victories. None," McConnell said.
Claim: Claims that Mitch McConnell has "blocked every single piece of legislation to protect the 2020 election from foreign interference." (Occupy Democrats, 2019-06-12)
Evidence (2019-06-18): But McConnell’s blockade faces a new challenge as the House turns to a series of bills meant to fight foreign interference in the 2020 election. Those measures, aimed at defending fundamental American institutions from foreign subversion, may be tougher for the Kentucky Republican to portray as partisan overreach than the bills the House has passed so far. And that could make them an irresistible force that strains his overall strategy of preventing action on any House legislation. [...] Election security, though, could be an issue that causes at least some GOP senators to question McConnell’s blockade. Sarbanes, who chaired the House Democrats’ Democracy Reform Task Force, says the party plans to pass by August "a suite" of bills to safeguard the 2020 election against foreign interference. [...] But all signals from McConnell suggest he’s unlikely to accept almost any new federal initiatives on election security. Last week, Senate Republicans blocked an effort by Democratic Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia to force a vote on a "duty to report" bill, which many Republicans consider an effort to embarrass President Donald Trump. McConnell shrugged off Trump’s comments, which drew widespread condemnation in both parties, that "you might want to listen" to a foreign government offering dirt on a 2020 opponent. And Sen. Roy Blunt of Missouri, a member of the GOP leadership, has publicly declared that McConnell is unlikely to allow any election security bill to reach the floor, whatever the House does next.
Claim: Claims that Mitch McConnell has "blocked every single piece of legislation to protect the 2020 election from foreign interference." (Occupy Democrats, 2019-06-12)
Evidence (2024-02-07): "Usually, when Mitch McConnell stitches together a bill with disparate issues that he wants, he achieves his objective," Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., told reporters. "And for the first time we prevailed, so there’s a celebratory mood."
Claim: Claims that Mitch McConnell has "blocked every single piece of legislation to protect the 2020 election from foreign interference." (Occupy Democrats, 2019-06-12)
Evidence (2022-01-19): McConnell referred to the legislation as a "federal takeover" of elections in an interview the next day on Fox News. [...] McConnell’s argument ignores that the U.S. the Constitution gives Congress broad power to make or alter election regulations. [...] Statement from Sen. Mitch McConnell’s office to PolitiFact, Jan. 19, 2022