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Videos being shared online falsely claim to show Russia’s President Putin and Turkey’s President Erdogan “warn America” about its support of Israel. The two videos show footage of the leaders speaking in Russian and Turkish, with English subtitles. However, the footage predates recent conflict in …
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A post on Facebook misleadingly claims that a photograph of the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan shows he has lied about receiving a flu vaccination, as the protective cap is still on the needle. The post accuses Mr Khan of “lying for a few years now” and adds: “look at the protective cover on the …
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Multiple posts on social media feature a photo of a box labelled “Covid-19/Influenza A&B Antigen Test Kit”, with claims that it proves Covid “was the flu all along”. But the test in question detects the markers of three different types of virus—SARS-CoV-2 (which causes Covid-19) influenza A and …
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A Facebook video uploaded on 19 September shows an interview about a potential Australian Covid-19 vaccine that was created using “a tiny fragment of HIV”. The clip has been shared now without the context that this vaccine was never rolled out and the project was stopped in late 2020. The video is …
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Posts on Facebook falsely claim all McDonald’s French fries come from Bill Gates and a “genetically modified potato farm”. One of the posts, which share the same image showing Mr Gates overlaid on a photo of McDonald’s fries, has been shared more than 24,000 times. The text on the image says: “in …
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A video falsely claiming that the Covid-19 vaccine raises people’s risk of hospitalisation and death has been shared on Facebook and liked around 2,000 times on Instagram (where it now appears to have been deleted). As we have said before, when writing about the same claim in another video, it is …
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A video shared more than 15,000 times on Facebook claims to contain the contents of a speech criticising “satanic plans” to depopulate the planet, supposedly delivered by Russian president Vladimir Putin. The video, which has also been viewed thousands of times on TikTok, doesn’t show Mr Putin …
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A video of white plumes coming from the tip of a plane’s wings has been shared on Facebook with the caption “Chemtrails come from engines right?” The post has over 700 shares on Facebook and 8,000 likes on Instagram. It’s not completely clear exactly what the caption means. It may be referring to …
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Posts about a job advert from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) have gone viral on social media, with people claiming it suggests officials are planning a pandemic. The advert was for a vaccine supply operations lead at the UKHSA and closed on 14 February this year. A section of the advert …
Read MoreA post on Instagram with more than 2,000 likes shows a flight-tracking map of part of the UK covered in short, parallel flight paths. Text overlaid onto the image says “CONTRAILS OR CH3MTRAILS?”, while part of the caption says “UK 2023 Flight Patterns”. The post (which has also been shared on …
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