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A video of an apparent funeral procession where what appears to be a corpse suddenly runs away when an alarm rings out is being shared with a misleading claim that it shows people “scared of Israel’s drones”.

During the video, a group appear to be carrying a shrouded body, which they put down and run away from when a siren sounds. The ‘dead body’ then also gets up and runs off, to laughter from the person filming.

The footage has been shared with the caption: “Even dead are scared of Israel’s Drones [sic].” That suggests the video shows people being targeted by Israeli drones, possibly in Gaza or Lebanon given current events in the Middle East. But this is not the case.

The video was actually filmed in Jordan in 2020, during the Covid-19 pandemic. It…

Since we first wrote about it earlier this month, we’ve seen another example shared on Facebook of a hoax post claiming a three-year-old girl was found wandering and taken to a local police station. 

The post features an image of a young girl who seems to be asleep, and who has a scar-like mark on her face. 

The text of the post says: “This 3 year old baby girl, Mila, was found last night walking behind a home here in #derby. 

“Deputy Sara Thomas saved her and took her to the Police Station but no one has an idea where she lives, the neighbours don’t know her or how she got there. She says her mom’s name is Abigail”. 

The post then includes an appeal for people to “flood our feeds so that this post may reach her family”. 

Derbyshire Constabulary…

A video is being shared online with false claims that it shows a Kamala Harris staffer confirming that the Vice President lied about owning a gun in a CNN interview.

Adrienne Elrod, senior spokesperson for the Harris-Walz campaign was being interviewed by Jim Acosta on 20 September when she was asked about the Democratic presidential candidate’s gun ownership.

In a number of posts shared on X (formerly Twitter) and Facebook, social media users claim Ms Elrod said Ms Harris “does not own a firearm”, and some accuse Ms Harris of having “lied”. Some share a clip of the interview with subtitles, while some examples are sped up.

But the spokesperson actually confirmed Ms Harris does own a firearm in the clip.

In some versions, subtitles have been added to the…

A video has been shared on social media with claims it shows the aftermath of a “bombing” by Hezbollah. But it actually shows a warehouse fire in Brazil. 

The video includes two clips, both showing flames and columns of smoke. One has been filmed in daylight, while the other is at night with two vehicles visible in the foreground. 

One post on X (formerly Twitter) has almost 2,000 shares and says: “Rats got roasted by Hezbollah.” The video has also been shared on YouTube with the caption: “Hezbollah is now massively bombing the city of Safed in northern Israel.”

But this video has been miscaptioned—it does not show Safed, or anything relating to the recent escalation in fighting between Hezbollah and Israel. 

This footage actually shows a warehouse…

A video being shared on social media with claims it shows Hezbollah bombing Israel actually shows an explosion at a petrol station in Yemen.

One post shared on X, formerly Twitter, has more than 532,000 views and is captioned: “While you were sleeping last night, Hezbollah did this to Israel”. The video has also been shared on Facebook with the caption “Yesterday it was Beirut, Today ‘Haifa’!”

Cross-border fighting between Israel and the armed group Hezbollah has intensified in the past week with Hezbollah firing into Israel and Israel launching airstrikes at Lebanon.

But the video being shared is unrelated to this conflict. 

The same video can be found in news reports from August about a petrol station explosion in Aden, Yemen. 

Text in Hebrew overlaid…