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Claims that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has “frozen” a contract for 80 fighter jets from France over the arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov are circulating on social media, as part of a fake Al Jazeera video. But there is no evidence to support this claim. 

One post on X, viewed more than 366,000 times, is captioned: “The UAE has frozen a contract to purchase 80 fighter jets from France: Durov’s arrest has angered the sheikhs.” It has also been shared on Facebook. 

Mr Durov was arrested on landing in Paris on 24 August as part of a cyber crime investigation. Mr Durov is originally from Russia, but now runs Telegram from Dubai in the UAE, where he lives. He holds citizenship of the UAE and France.

The UAE’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement…

Multiple posts on social media falsely claim a video shows hundreds of birds that were supposedly killed by severe temperatures of -52°C in Xinjiang, China. 

In fact, the footage comes from South Dakota in the US. 

The video seemingly shows hundreds of dead birds frozen to the surface of an expanse of water. 

It has been shared on both X (formerly Twitter) and Facebook with the caption: “Today, temperatures in Xinjiang, China dropped 45° [sic] almost instantly to a low of -52℃ (-61.6℉), kiIIing hundreds of waterfowl. Will they blame this on global warming?” 

While temperatures in Xinjiang, in the north west of China, were reported to have reached -52°C in recent days, the video does not show scenes from this region. 

The video was first shared by an

Lauren Chapman, a West Bloomfield Middle School alumni, visited the school on Dec. 14, and spoke with students in the 7th- and 8th-grade musical theater class where it all began for her.

She shared how shows develop, and the difference between joining an existing cast as she did with Kinky Boots, and being part of building a show through workshops and out-of-town tryouts before bringing it to Broadway as she did with the Disney musical, “Frozen.”

Chapman attended West Bloomfield (formerly Abbott) Middle School from 2003-2005. She also attended West Bloomfield High School and went to Interlochen Center for the Arts her senior year.

In 2017 Lauren…