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Passenger nearly sucked out of plane after window detaches mid-flight
THESSALONIKI, Greece – A man was almost pulled through the window of a Ryanair flight when it detached mid-air, with fellow passengers grabbing him and dragging him back inside the cabin. The Serbian tourist was flying from Thessaloniki to Memmingen in Germany when the incident occurred over North Macedonia shortly after takeoff. He remains hospitalised with friction burns but is in good condition.
Paris catacombs footage misrepresented as New York synagogue tunnel
"In the tunnel of Children's bones under NY city," says text over a video shared January 14, 2024 on Facebook. Overlaid with Bosnian text, the same clip has circulated on TikTok in multiple languages. Screenshot of a Facebook post taken January 25, 2024 Screenshot of a TikTok taken January 25, 2024 The posts are the latest misinformation stemming from the discovery of a tunnel under the Chabad Lubavitch world headquarters in Brooklyn, which includes a synagogue of the ultra-orthodox Hasidic group.
Image of Palestinian flag displayed at football match is generated by AI
"Thank you for your support, Athletico Madrid in Spain," says the caption of an Instagram post with more than 9,000 likes from October 20, 2023, which appears to show the Palestinian flag held above a crowd of spectators in a large stadium.
Wind turbines have not been built on burnt land in Evia
"Photo after the big fire in Evia, in the burnt areas, wind turbines have entered the burnt areas," reads a photo posted by a user on Facebook on September 11, 2023. The image shows a row of wind turbines on a hillside. The same image with the same text has been circulating on Facebook in Greece since July 2023, including here and here. A July 20 Facebook post reads: "Since last year's fires in Evia, wind turbines have miraculously sprung up.
Photo shows Australian bank's PR campaign, not 'Brazilian politician punished for corruption'
A photo of a man tied to a pole has been repeatedly shared in social media posts in multiple languages that falsely claim it shows a "corrupt Brazilian politician punished by the people". In reality, the photo shows an advertising campaign for an Australian bank in 2011. "A way to punish politicians who committed crimes. We should urgently introduce this in Korea," reads the Korean-language claim shared here on Facebook on December 16, 2022.
Image doctored to show Volodymyr Zelensky at LGBTQ Pride event
Social media posts in several languages claim an image shows Volodymyr Zelensky at an LGBTQ Pride event in 1999. But the photo has been digitally manipulated; the original photo, posted to the Flickr photo-sharing service in 2006, does not show the Ukrainian president. "Zelensky in LA 1999. Even his marriage is a lie," says a September 16, 2022 tweet sharing the image. "Yes it's Zelensky. New York 1999," said another post, which has since been deleted.
Photo of Nazi military officer falsely shared as 'World Economic Forum founder's father'
A composite image showing World Economic Forum (WEF) founder Klaus Schwab and a man in military uniform is circulating in social media posts claiming it shows his father, who was purportedly a high-ranking Nazi close to Adolf Hitler. However, the man in military uniform is a German major general called Walther Dybilasz, not Eugen Schwab. Historians say there is no evidence that Eugen Schwab was a high-ranking Nazi.
Undamaged windows are not evidence of staged Ukraine violence
Social media posts claim a photo shows cars damaged by a Russian bomb near a building with intact windows in Bucha, suggesting it proves violence in the Ukrainian town was staged. But there is no evidence of a strike near the building, and residents said military vehicles were used to upend the cars -- accounts confirmed by media reports and other images from the town.
Video falsely claimed to show children who died due to Covid-19 vaccination
Copyright AFP 2017-2021. All rights reserved. A video has been shared repeatedly in Facebook posts that claim it shows 13 children who died because of the Covid-19 vaccination in South Africa. However, the claim is false: the video was in fact shot in Kenya in February 2020, months before South Africa rolled out the Covid-19 vaccination programme; The pupils died because of a stampede at their school. The claim was shared here on Facebook on October 28, 2021.
False posts about 'depopulation through forced vaccination' target Bill Gates
Copyright AFP 2017-2021. All rights reserved. As more Covid-19 jabs are administered globally, social media posts have shared a newspaper report with a claim that it shows billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates calling for "depopulation through forced vaccination". The claim is false. The newspaper -- which has a history of publishing vaccine misinformation -- has misrepresented remarks made by Gates in 2010 about population growth, where he made no reference to "depopulation".
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