“News reports from Tel Aviv and Washington: General Havery Skidder, commander of the US Delta Force, and his unit of joint Israeli-US forces were killed in an ambush by Hamas yesterday,” reads part of the simplified Chinese caption alongside this photo of a man in military fatigues shared on Weibo on February 12, 2024.
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“Women (sic) claims her Husband who owns a gun shop & states the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms have updated their policy & effective from today, they give an exemption to illegal immigrants allowing them to purchase firearms. Good Luck Americans,” says a February 26, 2024 post on X shared and liked thousands of times.
“DISGUSTING AD MOCKING GAZA By KFC,” says a February 18, 2024 Instagram post. “KFC is literally mocking displaced Palestinians in Rafah whilst they are suffering FAMINE!”
“Hamburg, Germany The whole world stands with Palestine,” says the text of one post on X, formerly Twitter, published on February 9, 2024.
13 Feb: Staged video of man urinating on meat in a supermarket falsely shared with anti-Muslim claim
“Muslim immigrant in the Netherlands said ‘we don’t eat pork’ and then peed on the fresh pork section of the supermarket,” reads the caption of a Weibo post written in simplified Chinese on December 18, 2023.
“Farmer blocking the Border and Standing for texas,” says text over one TikTok post published January 21, 2024.
The eight-minute, four-second video was shared on Facebook on January 11, 2024 alongside the caption: “The Popes Confession To The World. The Real Truth About The Vatican And The Jesuit Priests.”
“Women in Finland protested against men marrying only one wife,” reads a post published on Instagram on December 30, 2023. It claims that protesters want “men to marry more than one wife as the population of women continue to soar in their country without husbands”.
“Solar farms will become thunderstorm and tornado incubators and magnets,” says the text of a December 25, 2023 Facebook post.
The prohibition of simple begging under Luxembourg’s criminal law has become a subject of widespread debate since the introduction of a begging ban by Luxembourg City for specific locations and hours in its police regulation. Notably, this ban does not differentiate between simple, aggressive, or organised begging.