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India, who reached the finals after 10 unbeaten matches, lost the final match of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2023 against Australia by 6 wickets on November 19. India’s World Cup final loss has drawn a heavy backlash on social media platforms. Amid this, we came across one such video on X(Twitter), showing some people expressing their disappointment by thrashing the posters of the players of the Indian cricket team after India’s ODI World Cup 2023 final loss.

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Sharing this video on X(Twitter), a user named Daniel Alexander wrote: “Indians celebrating Australia’s World Cup win”

The video has garnered more than 1 lakh views on X(Twitter).

Another user named South Asian Journal also shared this video on X(Twitter) and wrote:  “Jaahil Log”.

Other users…

Multiple social media posts feature a video claiming to show a man using a shoulder-launched ground-to-air missile to shoot down an Israeli helicopter during the recent conflict in Israel and the Gaza Strip. 

The clip, which has been shared hundreds of times across Facebook and X (formerly Twitter) is not of a real event. It has been taken from a military simulation game called Arma 3. 

A higher-quality version of the sequence showing the helicopter being downed was uploaded to YouTube in February 2023, months before the recent hostilities began. 

The description attached to the YouTube video states: “It’s Just a Military Simulation. Not Real life.”

Scenes from Arma 3 have previously been used in misleading claims linked to global conflicts. We’ve written

Hundreds of people have shared a Facebook post with the caption “Here are images of the Debris found of the Titanic Submarine” alongside a picture of a pair of shoes and a sea creature on the ocean floor and other pictures of what appears to be a wrecked vessel on the seabed.

The pictures have emerged following confirmation from authorities that the Titan tourist submersible, which went missing during an expedition to the Titanic shipwreck, had imploded, killing all five on board. 

But the image of the shoes does not show debris of the submersible—it was actually taken at the Titanic site almost 20 years ago.

The image appears on the photography website Alamy, with the caption: “This 2004 image provided by the University of Rhode Island’s Institute for…

False claims that Paul Ansell, the husband of the late Nicola Bulley, has been arrested or charged with murder have been shared thousands of times on Facebook this month. 

Lancashire Police told Full Fact that the information in these posts is “completely false”. 

The two posts, both shared to the same so-called “crime news” page on social media, wrongly claim that Mr Ansell was arrested after being spotted on CCTV close to the site where Ms Bulley’s body was found in the River Wyre in Lancashire on 19 February 2023.

The mother-of-two had been reported missing several weeks earlier on 27 January. Ms Bulley’s disappearance gained significant attention both in traditional media outlets and on social media, with her family previously criticising those who…