“Be informed before using #ganja to look after your health,” reads a Thai-language Facebook post from June 11, 2022, shared over a hundred times.
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“Justin Bieber: ‘The vaccine ruined my life,'” says the headline of a June 11, 2022 article from a website called the Vancouver Times.
Posts shared more than 1,000 times on Facebook claim that Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari died and was replaced by a Sudanese body double. AFP Fact Check has repeatedly debunked rumours of Buhari’s demise – often spread by supporters of a separatist movement in southeast Nigeria as part of their secession campaign. The latest claim circulating online is attributed to a Nigerian senator and member of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). But AFP Fact Check found no public trace of him making any such comments and the senator himself has rejected the allegation.
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“As a diabetic I had no idea this method could work,” says a Facebook post from May 19, 2022, which links to a video and web page selling nutritional supplements.
“Breaking: The World Economic Forum has its own paramilitary force complete with @wef BADGES and armed military grade-weapons,” reads the Facebook post published alongside two photos of a police officer on May 21, 2022.
“Arctic ice levels reach 30-year HIGH Despite ever-rising carbon dioxide (CO2) levels, arctic ice is actually expanding, not melting,” claims a June 1, 2022 Facebook postthat links to a May 25 articlefrom the website WND (formerly WorldNetDaily).
A video has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times in social media posts that claim it shows Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla saying the US pharmaceutical giant aims to cut the world’s population in half by 2023. However, the video has been edited. In the original clip, Bourla told Klaus Schwab, the founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum (WEF), that Pfizer plans to cut the number of people who cannot afford their medicine by half.
Social media users shared a photo claiming to show that a senior US military commander was among captives when Ukrainian soldiers defending the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol surrendered to Russian troops in May. But the claim is false; retired Admiral Eric Olson confirmed to AFP that he was not in Ukraine, and the photo appeared in Russian media a month before the surrender.
“Fun Fact: Airlines in Spain and Russia are warning COViD vaccinated people not to fly due to the increased risk of blood clots” reads a tweetby an Australia-based user on May 8.