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Will Parisians be forced to stay home during the 2024 Summer Olympics?

Numerous social media users and even some media outlets are claiming the prefect of the Paris region will force residents to stay home due to the lack of public transportation available for all of the visitors during the Summer Games.

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Were Gaza prisoners forced to strip to their underwear by Israel?

Men rounded up by troops, stripped to their underwear, and blindfolded. These shocking images of Palestinian prisoners have been widely shared these past few days. But some are raising questions about the authenticity of these videos.

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Did Ukraine plan to sell plots of land off to George Soros's family?

Russian state media is falsely claiming a deal has been brokered to turn the area into a ‘toxic waste dump.'

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Was Pope Francis spotted wearing an LGBTQ+ coloured cross?

A photograph of Pope Francis wearing a multicoloured cross has caused quite a controversy online with many believing this signals the Catholic Church is going back on its historic stance anti-LGBTQ+ stance. The Cube took a closer look at these claims.

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Tech News

Disinformation scholar accuses Harvard of being influenced by Meta

One of the world's leading experts on social media disinformation has filed a whistleblower disclosure to investigate Meta's influence at Harvard.

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Did Hamas create a site boasting about massacring Israeli civilians?

According to multiple Israeli officials and social media users, the shocking website shows the true face of the military organisation governing Gaza. The Cube decided to take a closer look.

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Euroviews. Major harnessing of trolls shows threat to Hungarian democracy is real

Hundreds of coordinated fake profiles are engaged in pro-government influence operations on Facebook ahead of municipal and European Parliament elections in Hungary in 2024, Péter Krekó, Csaba Molnár and Ráchel Surányi write.

Climate

‘Information crisis’: Four ways climate lies are spreading in 2023

We’re grappling with a climate ‘information crisis’ on X, Facebook and Instagram, disinformation experts say.

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Fact-check: Have rare anti-Hamas protests really broken out in Gaza?

Numerous social media users and Israeli government accounts have claimed that anti-Hamas demonstrations had been organised in the south of Gaza - a rare and unprecedented event. The Cube took a closer look at those claims.

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Did Israeli children really sing about annihilating everyone in Gaza?

It’s the latest video to have caused outrage online, showing children singing about the "annihilation" of Gaza and its people. The video was even posted and then removed by Kan, an Israeli state-owned news channel.

Climate

Does a volcanic eruption emit more carbon dioxide than human activity?

As the volcano in Iceland threatens to erupt any minute now, some social media users are falsely claiming the fumes from the natural disaster will generate more CO2 than all of the cars and airplanes on earth.

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How a Russian online campaign is exploiting the Israel-Hamas war

Doppelganger – that’s the name of a vast disinformation campaign orchestrated by Russia to undermine Ukraine by spreading false narratives. But it has now moved onto a new target: the Israel-Hamas war.

Taiwan

Euroviews. The EU and Taiwan must partner up in the fight against disinformation

If the two could join forces in their endeavours, it is possible that they could fuel regional development in Southeast Asia and elsewhere within the Global South where China has developed influence and a rooted footprint via its Belt and Road Initiative, Zsuzsa Anna Ferenczy writes.

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Was the Palestinian leader targeted in an assassination attempt?

Some social media users are sharing a clip claiming the President of the State of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas's convoy came under fire.

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Did pro-Palestine protesters brandish Islamic State flags in Europe?

Some social media users are accusing pro-Palestine demonstrators of sympathising with the terrorist group Islamic State (IS). However, most of these flags represent the Shahada, a declaration of faith in Islam.

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Israel-Hamas war: Fake Mossad account creates online confusion

Since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas, fake accounts have been popping up impersonating government entities. The latest one causing confusion and spreading disinformation is one pretending to be the Israeli national intelligence agency, Mossad.

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Is Turkey blocking Russian ships from crossing Bosphorus Strait?

Some social media users believe this is an open war declaration on Moscow. However, Euronews found the claims to be misleading and the clips, in reality, showing Turkey celebrating its centenary on 29 October.

World News

Euroviews. Recent escalations remind us of the need to combat disinformation

There is no doubt that with disinformation becoming more widespread, we are in a war against weaponised information, Oliver Rolofs writes.

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Pallywood: Gazans accused of staging injury and death online

Pro-Israeli accounts are accusing Palestinians of using crisis actors to fake their suffering in order to elicit online sympathy. One particular viral video turned out to be of a real amputee who survived a West Bank refugee camp raid in July 2023.

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Fact-check: Have Turkey and Iran declared war on Israel?

As the war between Israel and Hamas threatens to spill over into the wider region, some social media users are claiming neighbouring countries have declared war on Israel, including Turkey and Iran.