I went down the 'rabbit hole' to debunk misinformation â here's what I learned closeup photo of turned-on blue and white laptop computer Big Ben was stolen from Palestine. So claimed an elderly woman, in Arabic, in a retweeted clip I received recently. The claim pulled me up short. It seemed so outlandish. Who would invent something so easy to refute? And why? The woman spoke with great conviction, but could she really believe what she was saying? And if this was a hoax, then who was perpetrating it on whom? These questions sent me down a Big Ben rabbit hole.