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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.