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The Chinese Communist Party shared an ominous warning the same day U.S. lawmakers advanced a bill that could ban Chinese-owned TikTok nationwide.

The House passed the bill Wednesday morning in a bipartisan vote 352 – 65. 

The House China Select Committee says Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials through ByteDance are using TikTok to spy on its U.S. users’ locations and dictate its algorithm to conduct influence campaigns, making it a national security threat.

ByteDance would have five months after the law is signed to divest from TikTok. If it does not, app stores and web hosting platforms would not be allowed to distribute it in the U.S. 

Ahead of the vote, a spokesman for the CCP railed against the key claims made by Republican and Democrat lawmakers in their push to get the…

Claims that President Putin called the founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum (WEF), Klaus Schwab, a “globalist terrorist” have been shared widely on social media. But there’s no evidence this is true. 

The WEF is a foundation headquartered in Switzerland that engages with governments and business leaders on global issues. 

Claims about Putin’s alleged remarks appear to have come from an article on a website named The People’s Voice, which multiple posts have linked to, shared a screenshot of or copied text from directly. 

The article has the headline: “Putin Warns ‘Globalist Terrorist’ Klaus Schwab His ‘Days Are Numbered”, and it goes on to claim President Putin made these comments during a speech at the 20th meeting of the

A video of white plumes coming from the tip of a plane’s wings has been shared on Facebook with the caption “Chemtrails come from engines right?”

The post has over 700 shares on Facebook and 8,000 likes on Instagram.

It’s not completely clear exactly what the caption means. It may be referring to the fact that so-called ‘chemtrails’ (the conspiracy theory that the white lines emitted from planes are actually chemicals being purposefully sprayed to harm people) are actually usually contrails. 

Contrails appear when water vapour, either already in the air around the engine or emitted from it, condenses around soot particles emitted from the combustion process due to cold temperatures at high altitude. This forms long thin lines of cloud. They can look…

A video shared hundreds of times on Facebook falsely claims to feature “audio of the noises from the missing Titanic submarine”. 

The sounds of water, beeps and sporadic banging can be heard in the clip, which appears to have been originally posted to TikTok on 21 June where it has been viewed more than 12 million times.

The video also features a picture of the OceanGate Titan submersible, which went missing on 18 June while on a tourist expedition to the Titanic shipwreck—almost 4,000 metres below sea level. 

A huge search was launched in order to locate the submersible after it lost contact with the launch vessel.

However, on 22 June it was confirmed that the submersible had in fact suffered a “catastrophic implosion”, killing everyone on board. 

The day…

Hoax posts claiming that a cocker spaniel has been found by the side of the road have been shared thousands of times in community Facebook groups across the UK. 

We have seen versions of the posts in groups based in Brixham (Devon), Shrewsbury (Shropshire), Lancaster (Lancashire), Kettering (Northamptonshire), Stockport (Greater Manchester), Eastbourne (East Sussex), Warrington (Cheshire) and Harrogate (North Yorkshire). 

Together, these posts have been shared more than 16,000 times. 

The posts all use near-identical wording, which says: “Hello, it’s been 2 weeks and I haven’t found the owner of this sweet cocker spaniel we picked up on the road in [location]

“She’s really depressed and she’s not eating. We took her to the vet she’s not chipped. Please bump…