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Jul 22, 2022 · The week in fake news: They’re viral on social media, but these stories flunked the truth test July 22, 2022 at 4:58 pm Updated July 22, 2022 at 5:55 pm By
- Mosque shooting. Hours after it was reported that six people had been shot dead in an attack on a mosque in Quebec City this week, stories began appearing online linking the massacre to Syrian refugees who had supposedly arrived in the country two weeks earlier.
- Pope backs Trump. In the run-up to the US elections, right-wing blogs proudly proclaimed that Pope Francis had outed himself as a Donald Trump supporter.
- Pizzagate. Of all the bizarre rumours attached to Hillary Clinton during the US election, the weirdest was an online conspiracy theory alleging that high-level Democrats were operating a paedophile ring from Comet Ping Pong, a Washington DC pizzeria popular with politicos.
- Turkey joining the EU. Leading Brexit campaign group Vote Leave came under fire in the run-up to the June referendum for a poster that falsely claimed Turkey was about to join the European Union and that the UK could not prevent its admission.
May 23, 2024 · Social media posts falsely claim to show evidence of the affair by sharing a fake, digitally altered photo of Donald and Melania Trump with Daniels. Posts Misrepresent Unfreezing of $16 Billion in ...
Apr 3, 2020 · It has been shared more than 17,000 times and is now being posted by users outside India. Indian journalist Rajat Sharma, also tweeted the images with the misleading claim. He deleted the post ...
Some of the fake news stories that went viral in 2021 include that of the alleged death of Ngugi wa Thiong'o and the struggles of single mother Shirleen Mukami. Fake News can easily proliferate ...
Apr 10, 2021 · Russian doctors have performed post-mortem examinations on Covid-19 patients and discovered proof that Covid "does not exist as a virus", claim the posts on secure messaging app Telegram which say ...
Dec 11, 2020 · Here’s what went viral online this week. As Covid-19 killed thousands, the biggest stories on social media were about immigration, K-pop and the death of a “Friday” star. Here at Daily ...
