Several posts on Facebook have claimed that the pornography-hosting website Pornhub has been blocked for users in Russia since the country’s invasion of Ukraine. Some of these posts include a screenshot of a tweet from 25 February 2022, which received more than 20,000 retweets. It claimed that Russian users who attempted to access the site… Read More »
A post being shared on Facebook includes a number of screenshots of articles about what can cause heart attacks “in 2022”. One of these is a completely fake news story and one is from over a decade ago. We have checked several examples of misinformation about heart attacks on social media recently. The implication of… Read More »
Thankful Villages (also known as Blessed Villages) are those few villages in Britain that suffered no casualties in the First World War. These villages had lost no men in the war because all those who left to serve came home again when the war ended. The post 25 Kickass Random Facts List #717 first appeared… Read More »
A video on Facebook showing a large explosion behind a building has overlaying text claiming: “They just blew up the Ukraine international airport”. All signs point to the fact that this video does not show what you might describe as “the Ukraine international airport”. CNN reported that it had verified that the footage showed an… Read More »
Two screenshots from fake CNN Twitter accounts are being shared on Facebook. Both show the same photograph of a man they identify as “Bernie Gores”, with one post dated 16 August 2021 claiming he was a journalist killed in Afghanistan, and the other dated 23 February 2022 claiming he was an activist killed in Ukraine.… Read More »
A post falsely claiming to show a young Ukrainian girl confronting a Russian soldier has been shared on Facebook. The post includes two screenshots of a video where a girl can be seen talking to a soldier, alongside the caption: “Young Ukraine [sic] girl confronts a Russian Soldier and tells him to go back to… Read More »
