Social media users have been sharing a photo of two women holding signs which appear to display anti-baby slogans. Some commenters have suggested the women are pro-choice campaigners at a demonstration supporting women’s right to have abortions. But online searches suggest the photo was originally meant as a joke and the slogans were added to the image digitally as part of a humorous caption-writing competition.
‘Money’ magazine did not publish a cover featuring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on a horse made of cash.
An image of a military officer examining a young man with Nazi tattoos has been shared online in June 2022 with a message falsely saying it shows a Ukrainian prisoner of war in Donetsk, Ukraine. The photograph was taken in Belarus in June 2005.
A clip from a video game showing a burning aircraft bouncing on a beach then making an emergency landing on an aircraft carrier has confused social media users into thinking it is real.
Social media users are sharing posts, illustrated with photographs, claiming that Ukrainian activists have stuck anti-Russian stickers on walls and fences at Auschwitz. But a spokesperson for the Auschwitz Memorial told Reuters that no such stickers had been found. An analysis of the photos suggested they had been doctored.
There is no evidence to support online claims that the late Michael Stenger, the U.S. Senate Sergeant at Arms during the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, was shot dead. The false reports appear to come from an account of the killing of a different man with the same name in 2013.
An image purporting to show a statement by the former U.S. President Donald Trump calling Cassidy Hutchinson a “total failure” after her testimony to the January 6th Committee hearing, is fabricated.
Glastonbury’s Pyramid Stage, where Greta Thunberg delivered a speech at the start of the 2022 British festival, was solely powered by biofuel, organisers said, dismissing claims on social media that it was powered by diesel generators.
Social media users are claiming that Planned Parenthood clinics are closing en masse after the U.S. Supreme Court this month overturned the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling. While some clinics have stopped providing abortion services, there is no evidence of a mass shut down of clinics as of this article’s publication. Planned Parenthood also provide a variety of other services.
Online claims that a company named “Dominion” paid former U.S. Attorney General William Barr “according to SEC filings,” are missing key context. Contrary to social media posts, the company in question, Dominion Energy Inc, is different to Dominion Voting Systems, a voting software firm that was target of conspiracy theories related to their voting machines following the 2020 general election.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday imposed limits on the federal government's authority to issue sweeping regulations to reduce carbon emissions from power plants in a ruling that undermines President Joe Biden's plans to tackle climate change and could constrain various agencies on other issues.