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A video which appears to show prison officers gathered around a person with blood visible on the floor seen millions of times on X (formerly Twitter) wrongly claims to show a “recently imprisoned rioter” “severely slashed up in Strange Ways prison [sic]”. 

The caption shared alongside the clip goes on to ask “why would judges send them to a Class A prison for tweeting or assault” and adds: “Blood is on the Prime Minister’s hands if this is true.”

Versions of this post, using the same clip and text, have also been shared on Facebook.

But there is no indication that anyone involved in the video had anything to do with the recent violent disorder seen across England and Northern Ireland. 

A prison service spokesperson told Full Fact: “It is inaccurate…

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…

A number of videos shared on social media claim that animals such as zebras, lions and an elephant have been released onto the streets of Paris during the recent riots. 

Full Fact has seen videos on Facebook that claim the animals were released from Paris Zoo and others that mention Paris but not the zoo itself. 

The videos have also been extremely widely shared on TikTok and Twitter, gaining millions of views. 

While there are some differences between the videos shared on social media, most of them consist of a number of poor-quality clips apparently recorded using a mobile phone. 

One clip appears to have been filmed from a car, which is following a zebra running down a road, while another appears to show a group of lions also moving down a dark street. A third…

On Friday, after dozens of “this claim is disputed” labels and more than a few international incidents, Twitter finally banned President Donald Trump, permanently.

The ban is a seismic shift after four years of nearly nonstop tweets from the president, who in 2015 laid claim to the title “the Ernest Hemingway of 140 characters.”

And it deprives Trump of what Politico’s Alex Isenstadt this week described as his “most potent political weapon” — a digital cudgel used to incite violence and punish dissent.

But while the demise of the @realDonaldTrump handle is among the biggest tech headlines of the week — it even got its own obituary from the AP — Twitter isn’t the only platform that decided enough was enough. At least 11 different platforms have taken action…