A clip of U.S. President Joe Biden speaking at a memorial event marking two years since the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol has been digitally altered to make his facial features appear distorted.
A California bill allows non-citizens with valid work authorization to become police officers. The bill does not extend those rights to those without legal migratory status, however, contrary to what is being shared by posts on social media.
A fabricated news report saying the Biden administration is investigating a high-profile arms dealer for providing U.S. made weapons to Russia was created as satire. Some readers, however, took it to be authentic.
A screenshot that was made to look like a New York Post article says the Biden administration drafted legislation that would prohibit the filming or photographing of illegal immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border. While the story was created as satire, some people online took it seriously.
Nationwide bans on gas stoves are not going to be introduced imminently, the U.S. government agency responsible for regulating consumer product safety said. Social media posts, however, said the Biden administration would be banning the appliances – likely misinterpreting comments made by a commissioner for the agency that a future ban on gas stoves could be a possibility.
A clip purporting to show rounds of bullets being fired toward an aircraft was taken from video game footage and does not show scenes following the arrest of cartel leader Ovidio Guzman on Jan. 5 in the Mexican state of Sinaloa.
The Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot (EATR) was intended to consume vegetation, not animals, one of the robot’s inventors told Reuters. Yet, claims circulating on social media suggest, without evidence, that the biological matter the robot was designed to fuel itself on could mean the flesh of mammals.
A photo of a British road sign that appears to indicate motorists are leaving a so-called “District 5” has been digitally altered.
A photo which appears to show Prince Harry’s memoir being advertised in a Poundland store has been shared online – confusing social media users who believe it to be real.
A video clip showing throngs of people in front of the National Congress in Brasilia was not filmed on Jan. 8, 2023, when supporters of Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro stormed the country’s Congress, presidential palace and Supreme Court.