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Claims that “an African immigrant stabbed a British police officer” in Manchester last week have been widely circulating on social media alongside a video that claims to show the aftermath. But Greater Manchester Police has confirmed no officers or members of the public were stabbed during an incident near Piccadilly Gardens on 8 August. 

One post on X, formerly Twitter, has been viewed more than 2.3 million times and has also spread to Facebook. 

The video being shared shows people running and a police officer on the floor. An arrow points to that officer with the caption “police officer stabbed”. Police then run into a building, and a voice can be heard saying “a suspect has been detained”. Several police are seen pinning someone down before a voice…

A video is being shared widely on social media with a false claim it shows genuine coverage of Paris Olympic events being censored on Iranian broadcasts.

In the footage being shared, women are shown competing in events, including high jump, hurdles, and diving, with parts of their body obscured by superimposed black rectangles and stars.

But the clip, which has been circulating on Facebook and X (formerly Twitter), with the caption: “this is how Iran broadcasts the Olympics”, is not a genuine Iranian broadcast of the Olympics.

It comes from a 2013 satirical video, which can be seen on the YouTube channel of a Farsi-language satire show OnTen. 

In the full video, the comedians in the skit discuss how to censor sports that do not meet Iran’s dress codes for women….

An image that supposedly shows a recent Telegraph article headlined “Keir Starmer considering building ‘emergency detainment camps’ on the Falkland Islands” has been widely shared on social media. But it’s not real.

The Telegraph has pinned a post to its X account confirming the headline has been fabricated and no such article exists. 

The image includes the name of a real Telegraph journalist, Fiona Parker, and gives the time and date the article was published as 11:21am on 7 August 2024. An entirely different article written by Ms Parker about a Conservative councillor’s wife being arrested was published at that time, and it is possible someone has edited the text of this article and screenshotted it to produce the faked image.

The fake article goes on…

A picture showing a group of men with knives with claims it was taken recently in Stoke is actually a still from a video that circulated a month before disorder in the UK began of men celebrating a Yemeni wedding with ceremonial daggers.

One post from 4 August is captioned: “How lovely! Yesterday, in Stoke, a mostly peaceful class in dinner etiquette and the correct use of cutlery took place, the enthusiasm really was infectious, look at their little faces!”

The image highlights “knives and swords” in the picture, asking “are these the far right, then?” 

The captions appear to be referencing violent disorder that has broken out in the past week in the wake of a stabbing attack which killed three children and wounded others in Southport on 29…

In the aftermath of a high profile prisoner exchange on 1 August between Russia and several other countries, including the United States and Germany, posts claiming to show footage of the event  have been widely shared on social media. 

But while footage of the exchange earlier this month does exist, the clip being shared in the posts is over two years old and shows a different prisoner exchange.

The video clip accompanying the posts shows officials with their faces blurred leading a man down the stairs of a small plane. Another man, accompanied by several other officials with their faces blurred is then led on to the same plane. 

The US confirmed on Thursday that three of its citizens, including Wall Street Post journalist Evan Gershkovich who had been sentenced to…