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An image that supposedly shows a recent Telegraph article headlined “Keir Starmer considering building ‘emergency detainment camps’ on the Falkland Islands” has been widely shared on social media. But it’s not real.

The Telegraph has pinned a post to its X account confirming the headline has been fabricated and no such article exists. 

The image includes the name of a real Telegraph journalist, Fiona Parker, and gives the time and date the article was published as 11:21am on 7 August 2024. An entirely different article written by Ms Parker about a Conservative councillor’s wife being arrested was published at that time, and it is possible someone has edited the text of this article and screenshotted it to produce the faked image.

The fake article goes on…

An altered screenshot of an opinion article in the Daily Telegraph has been circulating on social media.

The image being shared on Facebook supposedly depicts a comment piece, in mobile format, published on 8 February with the headline: “Mass migration is slowly bankrupting the UK.” 

This was the correct headline and date of the original article on the Telegraph website—which has since been updated to replace “the UK” with “Britain”.

However, the header image accompanying the story in the screenshot is not the one that appeared on the Telegraph’s website.

Where does the image come from?

A reverse image search shows that the photo in the Facebook post was

Following the announcement by the federal government of an alleged attacks by hackers on the country’s cyberspace during the Presidential and National Assembly polls on February 25, a number of Information Technology (IT) experts have charged the government to enforce hosting of Nigerian websites locally and intensify its effort to safeguard the country’s cyberspace by domesticating cyber security and data protection.

It was gathered that more than 70 per cent of Nigerian websites are hosted in foreign countries. The experts urged the government to make sure the cyberspace is strongly protected to record credible results of 2023 general elections, calling for training of more experts to safeguard the cyberspace.

The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof. Isa…