This video doesn’t show the final moments of the Ethiopian Airlines flight that crashed in March
We can tell from the plane’s interior that it’s not the same flight. Read
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This boy in Sweden was killed but the motive is unclear
A viral image does show Arminas Pileckas, a 15 year-old Lithuanian student in Sweden who was stabbed at school by a 14 year-old boy from Syria in January 2016. Read
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The boots Neil Armstrong wore on the moon do match the footprints he left there
This picture of Neil Armstrong’s spacesuit doesn’t include the ‘lunar overshoes’ he actually wore on the moon. Read
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This video does not show the final moments of the Ethiopian Airlines flight
It’s a video from 2016 of an Etihad flight that experienced severe turbulence but went on to land safely. Read
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This isn’t a picture of Angela Merkel and Adolf Hitler
A Facebook post doesn’t show a picture of a young Angela Merkel and Adolf Hitler. Hitler died nine years before Merkel was born. Read
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This picture doesn’t show a child's heart infected with a dog parasite
This parasitic dog heart worm spreads via mosquito. Read
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This picture does not show Fidel Castro holding Justin Trudeau as a baby
The picture is of the Cuban leader with Trudeau’s late brother, Michel. Read
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This video doesn't show a church in Pakistan being burned in retaliation for the New Zealand attacks
A video circulating online falsely claims to show a mosque being attacked in Pakistan in March 2019. It shows an attack on a church in Egypt in 2013. Read
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You shouldn’t put a tampon in a stab wound
The most important thing is to apply pressure to the wound and dial 999. Read
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We don’t know who attacked this Swedish woman
Posts online have suggested the attacker was a Muslim migrant, despite there being no evidence to prove this. Read
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