Coverage on May 29 centred on this account: Old videos of explosions in Ukraine and China were shared on social media and falsely claimed to show new strikes during the 2026 Iran war before being identified and labelled as misinformation.
Fact-checkers compared viral posts against geolocated imagery and official logs.
Initial bulletins describe how to show new strikes during the 2026 Iran war before being identified and labelled as misinformation.
Institutions and individuals identified in source material include Ukraine, China, Iran. Quantitative references in the underlying brief include 2026. Verification teams compared the claim with primary documents and official logs.
Platforms that hosted the material did not always display contextual labels immediately. Figures repeated here match those in the initial summary only.
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Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misinformation_during_the_2026_Iran_war