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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…

Hundreds of people have shared Facebook posts falsely claiming to show two Australian Navy ships ramming “a boat loaded with illegal immigrants that did not respond to requests to stop”. 

The posts, which have also been shared on X (formerly known as Twitter), add: “The illegal immigrants were all returned, the crew members arrested and the boat scrapped.”

They also say “that’s the way you do it!”—implying that similar tactics should be used in the UK.

But this picture doesn’t show ships from the Australian Navy or a boat carrying migrants. As we have written before, when the same false claim went viral in 2020, the picture was taken in 2012 and actually shows a flare-up in tensions between China and Japan over a small group of islands in the East…