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No, it is not true that new marriage registration system in country will stop absconders and tax evaders from getting married, officials in three provinces confirmed

Multiple Facebook posts falsely claim that major Malaysian news channel Astro Awani reported that Minister of Agriculture and Food Security Mohamad Sabu blamed the country's egg shortage on chickens "refusing to have sex". However, the posts shared a doctored Astro Awani report and the claim was likely originally in...

Multiple Facebook posts are sharing a document purported to be an internal memo from Kenya's state-run electricity company claiming that it shows senior employees fired by president-elect William Ruto because they are not from his ethnic group. The claim is false; Kenya Power confirmed the document is fake and that those named were not existing employees. Moreover, the name of

Multiple Facebook posts have shared a claim that oil "can regenerate faster than it could be depleted". However, the claim is false. Energy experts told AFP that the natural process of forming oil takes "millions of years" and humans are using it at a rate faster than it can regenerate.

Multiple Facebook posts have shared a screenshot of an article that states "according to the Wall Street Journal, Malaysia is the most corrupt country in the world for doing business in 2022." The screenshot includes a ranking chart credited to the American newspaper and Transparency International, a corruption watchdog. However, the claim is false; the Wall Street Journal's

Multiple Facebook posts shared hundreds of times in early July 2022 claim the World Bank warned Thailand's economy was on the verge of collapse after being battered during the pandemic. This is false. The World Bank told AFP it had not issued such a warning and it predicted last month that the kingdom's economy would grow over the next three years as private consumption and

Multiple Facebook posts in Thailand have shared a claim that some tablets of the painkiller paracetamol contain the Machupo virus -- which can cause a potentially life-threatening haemorrhagic fever. However, the claim is false; health experts dismissed it as "untrue" and explained that the virus could not survive in the tablet. The product in question, called P-500, is also

Multiple Facebook posts shared repeatedly in Muslim-majority Malaysia claim that Coca-Cola contains alcohol, meaning it is "haram" or forbidden in Islam. But both Coca-Cola and the Malaysian government agency responsible for Islamic affairs have separately said this is false. The posts shared a purported newspaper article screenshot that claimed to show an old recipe for the

Multiple Facebook posts in Muslim-majority Indonesia have shared two screenshots of purported local news headlines that claim a "new prayer direction will be developed in China" and allege that China will fund the project. However, the screenshots have been altered from unrelated news reports. 

The posts show a photo of the Sinovac vaccine packaging from August 2020, when the vaccine was not yet available to the public.