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Satirical video of man pretending to insult Klaus Schwab in Davos shared out of context
The video, originally posted on YouTube, was shared on Facebook in South Africa on January 17, 2024. The clip shows a man supposedly speaking at the WEF and insulting Schwab onstage. “And I appreciate the World Economic Forum providing me the opportunity to be on this stage and say f**k you Klaus Schwab and f**k your new world order…” says the man in the video. Screenshot showing the post sharing the video, taken on January 25, 2024 The video then cuts to Schwab who stands up and walks offstage.
Clip shows paragliders in Egypt, not Hamas militants attacking Israel
"Imagine attending a rave. Then Hamas parachutes in," says text over a clip shared October 8, 2023 to TikTok and Instagram. The video shows paragliders descending over a city at dawn or dusk as onlookers film them on their phones. Other posts with the footage circulated in Hungarian and Korean.
Fake CNN tweet falsely reports first US casualty in Ukraine
Copyright AFP 2017-2022. All rights reserved. Social media posts claim CNN lied to the public by tweeting that a man was the first US casualty in Ukraine after previously featuring the same photo in a post about his execution in Afghanistan. This is false; the network says the tweets are not from its official accounts, and the man pictured is a YouTube video game commentator who continues to livestream on the platform.
This photo shows a keeper at an Indonesian wild reserve conducting routine maintenance
Copyright AFP 2017-2021. All rights reserved. An image has been shared widely on Facebook alongside a claim it shows an orangutan trying to "help a geologist trapped in a mud pool". The claim is misleading: the man pictured is a keeper at an Indonesian wild reserve who was conducting routine maintenance, according to the image's photographer and the reserve's management. The image was shared here on Facebook on December 1, 2021.
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