A video of people breaking into Centre Commercial Bourse, a shopping mall in Marseille, has been misinterpreted by people online as the French stock exchange.
A video of a fire engulfing a high-rise residential building in Ajman, United Arab Emirates, is being falsely shared online as if it’s a tower set ablaze in France.
A screenshot circulating online of an opinion column headline in The Guardian, which expresses support for looting in France and says riots are reparations for “disenfranchised black youth”, is fake, a spokesperson for the newspaper told Reuters.
A picture circulating on social media of masked men hanging out of a moving police van is being falsely linked to rioting across France on the first weekend of July. The photo is in fact a screenshot from a 2022 movie.
An image of a fabricated Courrier International magazine cover circulating online does not appear in the French outlet’s online archive of authentic covers and Courrier International took to Twitter to confirm that it is fake.
A video of a fire burning vehicles in a parking lot is from April in Australia but is being shared online as if it were from the riots in France in late June and early July.
A clip of cars falling several stories from a parking garage and bursting into flames on impact shows the filming of a “Fast & Furious” movie in Cleveland, Ohio, in 2016, not footage captured during protests in France in July 2023.
Retailer GameStop did not offer a package using the label “Titan Deals” and comprising the Subnautica video game with a Logitech controller, as pictured in an altered image circulating online. The photograph, originally taken at European game vendor MediaMarkt’s retail location in the Netherlands, was altered to depict the made-up deal, a spokesperson for MediaMarkt said.
30 jun (Reuters) - Un video compartido como si mostrara disturbios en una tienda de la marca de lujo Louis Vuitton en Francia, durante las protestas por la muerte de un joven de origen norteafricano a manos de la policía, en realidad fue grabado en Estados Unidos en 2020.
The face of late, disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein was digitally added to a photograph of billionaire Elon Musk, actor Ashton Kutcher and filmmaker Spike Lee, who are in the original image and pictured with talent manager, Guy Oseary.