Claims that Hunter Biden, son of U.S. President Joe Biden, was arrested by the military are false and originated from an unreliable website.

As Hurricane Ida, the fifth most powerful recorded hurricane to strike the United States, affected thousands of people across different states, social media users are sharing an old, fabricated tweet attributed to Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez about hurricanes and electric cars.

Thousands of social media users shared a video with a caption falsely claiming it shows flooding in New York City in the wake of Storm Ida. The clip was filmed by a vlogger in the Philippines and was uploaded weeks before Storm Ida struck.

A social media post suggesting that hurricanes Katrina, Gustav, Isaac, Harvey, and Ida all made landfall on Aug. 29 - of the years 2005, 2008, 2012, 2017, and 2021 respectively - is inaccurate. According to government data, their landfall dates vary.

Two altered images showing former U.S. president Donald Trump playing golf have been recently reshared by users on social media.

Disturbing footage of a man experiencing a cardiac arrest does not show the late Indian actor Siddharth Shukla, as was falsely claimed on social media.

Images posted online do not show animals escaping from a zoo in New Jersey during Storm Ida, as is claimed in the captions. No animals escaped from the zoo during the storm. The pictures are old and come from as far afield as Australia and India.

Reuters has been able to source the video since this article was first published on Aug. 31. Sept. 2 update replaces paragraph 12, adds paragraph 13, updates paragraph 1 and updates verdict in light of source verification.

A screenshot purporting to show a text message warning residents in West Orange, New Jersey that animals escaped a zoo during Storm Ida is fake.

An old video has resurfaced online, wrongly described as footage of current fighting in Afghanistan.