A post circulating on social media wrongly claims a photograph of a uniformed official kneeling on the neck of a young man is an Israeli soldier killing a Palestinian child. This is false.
Social media users are circulating a fictitious tweet purportedly from U.S. President Donald Trump, which states that he never met Ghislaine Maxwell and didn’t know Jeffrey Epstein.
Social media users are sharing a link to a page which claims a girl called Alice has been kidnapped and encourages users to help find her by watching a video. This is false. The link is seemingly part of a phishing scam.
Social media users are circulating posts which claim that New York’s Statue of Liberty was originally modeled after an enslaved Black woman. This primary claim is false. The original model of the statue was inspired by the figure of a female Arab peasant, enlarged to colossal proportions.
Social media users are circulating a fictitious quote by Los Angeles Lakers player LeBron James in which he purportedly tells the National Basketball Association (NBA) that unless it “drops” the national anthem, he will quit. This quote is untrue and originally stems from a satirical site.
Users on social media are sharing a picture with an image of a child and adult holding hands, superimposed with text and logos, giving the impression of an advertising campaign. The text reads “Pedophilia is a natural sexual orientation” and the first logo below is the recognizable red letters of TED, the popular American organizer of online talks. The suggestion that TED endorses this message is false. The advertisement is fabricated.
Social media users have been sharing images of a newspaper clipping of an article with an offensive quote about African people, falsely attributed to Donald Trump, in the headline.
Posts shared on Facebook show an image of a sedated lion lying on its belly with its head through a sign of the famous Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) Studios logo. This image has been photoshopped.
Social media users have been sharing images online of radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags on Victoria’s Secret clothing items and claiming they are being used to track users. This claim is untrue.
Posts shared on Facebook claim that “people are starting to enter ER’s with fungal lung infections from wearing masks,” advising users to take breaks from wearing them. This claim, however, is false.