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A post widely shared on social media falsely claims to include a photo of an Israeli soldier who took their own life after being raped.

The post, which has been shared across Facebook and X (formerly known as Twitter), includes a photo of a young woman in military attire.

A caption with one post says: “Today’s scandal: The tragic suicide of the soldier ‘Sarah Awidan’ after being subjected to a gang rape and hidden in one of the army barracks in the ‘Magellan’ brigade in Gaza for several days. The Israeli army is the most morally corrupt in the world. Shameful… #Gaza #Israel.”

But the woman pictured is not “Sarah Awidan”, and Full Fact could not find evidence of a soldier of this name dying in the way described while serving in the Israel Defence Forces…

Since late yesterday, a new phishing attack has targeted customers of MyHost and our sister company, SiteHost. The emails have SiteHost’s name and logo on them, and they attempt to trick you into giving away passwords and credit card information.

If you have received any emails from the fake address info@sitehost-service.com, or with the subject line “Note on service renewal”, they are not from us. Please mark them as spam or delete them, and block the sender if you can.

Phishing attacks like these contain official-looking links to fake websites. In this case, the scam website asks people for their login information and then their credit card details.

These attacks are likely to evolve over time, so we are asking everyone to be extra-cautious when it comes to your MyHost account…

​​A video shared on multiple accounts on Facebook and X (formerly Twitter) claims to show Hamas firing rockets towards Ben Gurion International Airport, sometimes known as Tel Aviv Airport, in Israel. This is not true.

Some of the accounts sharing this video say that it shows Hamas firing rockets towards “Tel Aviv airport, Israel”. Other users have also claimed it shows Hamas firing at Israel, or have shared it with hashtags relating to Israel. The videos have been shared following conflict between Israel and Hamas over the weekend.

But this video was actually first shared online in February 2020 and allegedly shows a rocket attack in Syria. 

The earliest incidence of the video appearing online that Full Fact has found occurred on 3 February 2020, when two…

Fans and netizens alike mourned the passing of Li Lin, with many commenting that the industry had lost a dear talent.

Li Lin previously shared in an interview that he had graduated from university with an English degree, and did not step into the broadcast industry immediately after graduation. Instead, he worked as a translator and dubbing artist for English movies, before moving on to become a singer, and later, a tour guide, before joining radio. 

He hosted a wide variety of radio programmes, from travel segments, to language-learning ones, where he shared English phrases and words with his audience.

A couple of netizens also lamented that Li Lin had died too young, and cautioned others to “take good care of your health too”.

“When you’re sick, you really have to rest…

Thousands of people have shared posts on Facebook falsely claiming that convicted child serial killer Lucy Letby has been “rushed to hospital” after being attacked in prison. 

The former neonatal nurse, Letby, was sentenced to 14 whole-life sentences on 21 August after she was convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to kill six other infants. 

Multiple posts, which have identical text, say: “BREAKING NEWS Baby killer Lucy Letby has been attacked in Prison. Reports suggest she’s been rushed to an outside hospital, in a critical condition after being slashed and boiled kettle water with sugar chucked in her face [sic].” 

They share a collage of two photos of Letby—one in a crowd and another on the hospital ward. One post has 26,000 shares while