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A video is being shared on social media with false claims it shows the Islamic call to prayer being performed at Buckingham Palace. But it was actually filmed at Lancaster House, which is a government building, and is more than a year old. 

In the footage, a man standing at a podium is performing the call to prayer, known as the Adhan, in a grand building and a crowd is gathered to watch. 

It has been shared on social media with captions including “We’re watching the complete collapse of a once great empire. The Islamic call to prayer inside of Buckingham Palace is just the latest example of its defeat”, and “Muslim call to prayer inside Buckingham Palace? WTH”. 

But the footage actually shows a scene in Lancaster House, which is situated near Buckingham…

Posts shared widely online have falsely claimed that the video in which Catherine, Princess of Wales revealed her cancer diagnosis was created using Artificial Intelligence (AI) due to her wedding ring ‘disappearing’.

But high resolution versions of the video show her ring does not disappear and BBC Studios have confirmed that they filmed the clip.

The background to the claims

Catherine confirmed in a video message on Friday that she has begun preventative chemotherapy after an unspecified cancer diagnosis. 

It followed weeks of speculation in the media and on social platforms after she had been absent from public view following pre-planned abdominal surgery in

The US House of Representatives on Wednesday approved legislation that would require TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to sell it within 180 days… or risk having the app barred from app stores and web hosting services in the United States.

The vote was 352 in favor; 65 opposed.  Pretty impressive disapproval of a social media company’s ownership model.  The supporters of the bill didn’t like the fact that ByteDance might be providing user data to the Chinese government, letting the Communists know which dancing cat video is most popular among Americans.

Our economic system is threatened.  And also, maybe our own home-grown social media empires.

One of the 65 Representatives opposed to the bill — Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky — suggested that “the bill…

In recent years, electric scooters from various manufacturers have experienced incidents of catching fire on public roads. Bengaluru-based automaker Ather Energy, known for relatively fewer such incidents, faced a notable event when a video surfaced online showing several of its scooters ablaze inside a transport truck.

Incident Details and Online Reaction

The video, shared on X by Ather Energy Parody, depicted four Ather Energy scooters engulfed in flames atop a transport truck, prompting concerns about the company’s safety standards.

Ather Electric scooters caught fire during . It’s concerning that Ather Electric faces issues almost every day #ather #atherelectric @atherenergy pic.twitter.com/fZnHmvxfNA

— Ather Energy Parody (@atherenergy_) March 1, 2024

However, four other…