🧩 BND Motif Index · M173
Caught on camera
A video or photo is offered as direct proof of what is really happening, often something alarming that the news won't show.
🗣️ Arguments🗂️ Information integrity
- 57claims filed under it
- 2left shows it came up on
- 2right shows it came up on
- 3claims retold online
- 5fact-checkers
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
🔗 goes with: 🧩 Fake news 🧩 He admit it! 🧩 Press freedom threat 🧩 Spotted from space 🧩 We did it, Reddit!
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
⚖️ center 0
🦗 none of our center shows, so far
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
📰 In the news
the stories its claims were told about, the most told first (matched by our tools, so a link can be wrong)
- 📰 NY attorney General faces bar ethics complaint over Cornell 7 case 2026-10-02 to 2026-10-11
- 📰 Houthi missiles strike Yemeni presidential palace, killing two 2026-10-04 to 2026-10-17
- 📰 French protests escalate with violent clashes and property damage 2026-10-19 to 2026-10-20
- 📰 Trump holds Ohio rally ahead of midterm elections 2026-10-14
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-27 “A video by @M.A.Rothman on X shows that California's ballot envelopes have a hole that can reveal how a person voted.” 🔎 Lead Stories
- 2026-10-26 “A video shows votes being discounted for Flávio Bolsonaro in the second round of the Brazilian presidential election, proving fraud.” 🔎 Lead Stories
- 2026-10-26 “Trump appears to be wearing a medical support device or leg brace.”
🎙️ The Kyle Kulinski Show 🎙️ David Pakman Show (podcast) - 2026-10-25 “A video shows Benjamin Netanyahu saying 'America deserved 9/11' in a UN speech.” 🔎 Snopes
- 2026-10-24 “Videos shared on social media show footage from the attacks on Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport on 10 and 11 October.” 🔎 Full Fact
- 2026-10-24 “A photo shows a woman being punched in the face at a Trump rally while wearing a shirt that says 'RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES.'” 🔎 Snopes
- 2026-10-24 “A photo shows a woman wearing a 'Release the Epstein files' shirt being punched by Trump supporters, summing up the Trump era.” 🔎 Lead Stories
- 2026-10-24 “An image shows a woman who tried to stop looters at a Paris supermarket holding a ‘refugees welcome here’ sign.” 🔎 Full Fact
- 2026-10-24 “A woman holding a 'Refugees welcome here' sign is pictured in front of a looted store during the October 2026 Paris protests.” 🔎 Lead Stories
- 2026-10-23 “Voting machines across the country are changing votes.” 🔎 Snopes
- 2026-10-22 “A video shows a former student accusing James Talarico of sexual misconduct.” 🔎 PolitiFact
- 2026-10-21 “A Democrat appeared to be drunk in a video clip.”
🎙️ Timcast IRL (podcast) - 2026-10-21 “A video shows a former student accusing James Talarico of sexually assaulting him in 2012.” 🔎 NewsGuard Reality Check
- 2026-10-21 “A video shows a man claiming he was sexually assaulted by his language arts teacher, James Talarico, in 2012 at Rhodes Middle School.” 🔎 Lead Stories
- 2026-10-21 “An elderly couple was stripped and robbed of everything in the middle of the street by far-left and migrant rioters during recent riots in France.” 🔎 Full Fact
- 2026-10-20 “A video shows protesters unfurling a giant Palestinian flag from the top of the Eiffel Tower.” 🔎 NewsGuard Reality Check
- 2026-10-20 “A leaked photo shows Benjamin Netanyahu's master plan on a whiteboard involving Spain.” 🔎 Lead Stories
- 2026-10-20 “A security camera video shows a large bull shark making a splash in a Cape Coral canal.” 🔎 Lead Stories
- 2026-10-19 “A video shows Donald Trump in a mysterious cave with unidentified blond giants and unidentified personnel.” 🔎 Lead Stories
- 2026-10-19 “The ITV documentary exposes Reform UK as an organization filled with racism, misogyny, and depravity.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-16 “A video shows a Ukrainian woman being dragged away for forced military conscription.” 🔎 Full Fact
- 2026-10-16 “A video shows ships closely grouped together in the strait of Hormuz while Hegseth claims we won” 🔎 Lead Stories
- 2026-10-15 “Reform UK councillors and candidates were filmed making racist, misogynistic, and extreme views.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-15 “A compilation video shows President Volodymyr Zelenskyy belly dancing.” 🔎 Full Fact
- 2026-10-14 “Videos show ballot fraud in Germany where votes for the AfD party were destroyed.” 🔎 NewsGuard Reality Check
- 2026-10-14 “A brave woman was surrounded by male violence and dragged to the ground at a Trump rally while police failed to arrest her attackers and Trump cheered on the thugs.” 🔎 Snopes
- 2026-10-13 “A viral video shows Barack Obama saying 'ordinary men and women are too small-minded to govern their own affairs' and claims the footage was deleted from every platform.” 🔎 Full Fact
- 2026-10-13 “A photo shows George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and Osama bin Laden sitting together.” 🔎 Lead Stories
- 2026-10-13 “MAGA men are misogynistic cowards who assault women, and the punch at the Trump rally shows who they are.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-12 “A photo shows U.S. troops in Iraq shooting reptilians following a Tic Tac-shaped craft crash involving dead 'Grays' and living seven-foot reptilians.” 🔎 Lead Stories
- 2026-10-10 “A viral video on social media claims to show the moment a Houthi missile hit a Saudia airliner parked near an airport terminal in Riyadh, with an urgent caption stating that new footage of the attack has been released.” 🔎 Lead Stories
- 2026-10-10 “Tallarico's true beliefs are revealed by undercover audio from his church.”
🎙️ The Michael Berry Show - 2026-10-09 “A video shows a funeral procession in Gaza scattering when air raid sirens sound, with the ‘corpse’ jumping up and running away.” 🔎 Full Fact
- 2026-10-09 “A video shared on Facebook and Instagram shows a 'major strike' on an oil facility in Israel, with claims that it depicts a recent attack.” 🔎 Full Fact
- 2026-10-08 “The video shows the aftermath of a Flydubai attack.” 🔎 Full Fact
- 2026-10-08 “A video of Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese collapsing face-first off stage is real and was AI-generated.” 🔎 Full Fact
- 2026-10-08 “A video shows young men dressed in black dancing with guns at student protests in France in October 2026.” 🔎 Lead Stories
- 2026-10-08 “A real video shows a large ship completely engulfed by a massive wave crashing over the bow.” 🔎 Lead Stories
- 2026-10-08 “A video shows Brazilian presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro telling a Masonic lodge he would give Brazil to 'Greater Israel' and Satan.” 🔎 Lead Stories
- 2026-10-07 “A real video shows a bus driver named Linda Thompson or Derek Harris being hit by a rock thrown by children.” 🔎 Lead Stories
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