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Copyright AFP 2017-2021. All rights reserved. Multiple Facebook posts have shared a purported health notice that warns people who get out of bed "too quickly" are likely to suffer a stroke. The claim is misleading: health experts said the warning was “not true” for healthy people who have no underlying medical conditions. The purported health notice was posted on Facebook on March 9, 2021. The post has been shared more than 600 times. The Thai-language post translates to English in p...

Copyright AFP 2017-2021. All rights reserved. Multiple Facebook posts share a claim that people become more prone to Covid-19 infection after they receive their first of two vaccine doses. The claim is misleading: while people who have received the Covid-19 jab can still contract the virus, getting the vaccine itself does not increase the risk of Covid-19 infection.  The claim was posted here on March 25, 2021 in a Facebook group with more than 35,000 members. “For those who have received th...

Copyright AFP 2017-2021. All rights reserved. Multiple Facebook posts have shared photos they claim show a house built on the smallest plot of land in Sri Lanka. However, the claim is false: the images in fact show a house in Vietnam. The images and the claim were shared on Facebook here on March 12, 2021.  “This house has the most space despite being built on the smallest land plot in Sri Lanka,” reads the Sinhala-language claim.  Screenshot of the misleading Facebook post, captured o...

Copyright AFP 2017-2021. All rights reserved. Multiple Facebook posts have shared a text graphic alongside a claim that Denmark has passed a new law that prohibits Muslims from voting in the elections. The claim is false; Denmark has not passed such a law and the country’s parliamentary website shows all permitted Danish citizens above 18 are entitled to vote. The text graphic was shared in this Facebook post on November 3, 2020. It has been shared more than 1,400 times. The Hindi text read...

Copyright AFP 2017-2021. All rights reserved. Multiple Facebook posts shared hundreds of times claim health authorities should “explain” why two needles were used to give Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin a Covid-19 vaccine. The posts came after several other world leaders faced false accusations that they faked their Covid-19 vaccinations. The claim is misleading: it is common to change needles between the preparation and administration of vaccines for hy...

Copyright AFP 2017-2020. All rights reserved. Multiple Facebook posts shared tens of thousands of times in February 2021 claim the United Nations “declared war” on Myanmar four weeks after a military coup. The posts, which shared two photos of US military personnel, claim 180 countries have committed to join the war effort. The claims, however, are "completely false", according to the UN. The images shared in posts are generic photos of US Air Force personnel that predate the Myanma...

Copyright AFP 2017-2021. All rights reserved. Multiple posts on Facebook and Instagram have shared six photos alongside a claim they show the destruction caused by an earthquake in Tajikistan in February 2021. The claim is misleading: four of the photos have appeared in reports about earthquakes that hit Turkey, Italy and Pakistan prior to February 2021. Just two of the photos in the posts have circulated in reports about the aftermath of an earthquake in Tajikistan that was felt in India. Th...

Copyright AFP 2017-2020. All rights reserved. Multiple Facebook posts shared in February 2021 claim that cyclists in the Philippines must register their bicycles as part of a new nationwide scheme. The claim is false: the posts shared a screenshot from an article published in June 2020 about a local government order to register bicycles in Cebu City. The order, however, was scrapped hours after it was announced. The Philippine government has not implemented a bicycle registration programme...

Multiple Facebook posts shared repeatedly in January 2021 claim to reveal a recipe for hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malarial drug. The posts claim the drug is an alternative treatment for Covid-19, negating the need for Covid-19 vaccines. The posts go on to claim that hydroxychloroquine is “nothing but quinine”, referring to another anti-malaria medicine. The claims, however,

Copyright AFP 2017-2021. All rights reserved. Multiple Facebook posts shared in January 2021 purport to show a quote from New Zealand’s opposition leader Judith Collins, suggesting it shows she heaped praise on former US President Donald Trump. The posts, however, misquote Collins. Her original remarks were made during a debate in September 2020, in reference to Trump’s policies in the Middle East, not his general performance as US president. One of the misleading posts was published�...