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Now playing Next The Cube Swiss police investigate fake online ad campaign about energy wasting The unofficial posters urged citizens to report their neighbours if they overheat their homes this coming winter. 15/09/2022
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Now playing Next France Thirteen arrested for forging more than 60,000 fake COVID passes Eight suspects were arrested in Lyon and another five in Paris, police said. 27/01/2022
Now playing Next Spain Spain arrests seven suspects for selling fake COVID certificates in EU The group solid fake PCR test results and vaccine passes to online groups for between €50 and €1,000, police say. 25/01/2022
Now playing Next France Lyon couple charged with selling more than 1,000 fake health passes The two suspects are accused of hacking into a nurse's record to create the fake COVID-19 certificates. 21/01/2022
Now playing Next Italy Nurse arrested on suspicion of giving fake COVID vaccines to 45 people Four other alleged accomplices have also been detained. 11/01/2022
Now playing Next Austria Police raids in Austria uncover fake vaccination passes The searches come just weeks before Austria makes COVID vaccines mandatory. 06/01/2022
Now playing Next Italy No 'arm done? Italian prosthetic protester gets COVID vaccine He told the Italian media the vaccine “is the best weapon we have against this terrible disease”. 09/12/2021
Now playing Next Italy Fake news: Man caught after trying to get COVID jab in prosthetic arm "He thought he could cheat the system and thus obtain the green pass without actually having had the vaccine." 03/12/2021
Now playing Next The Cube Belarusian KGB used fake accounts to stir border tensions, says Meta Facebook's parent company also said it had removed dozens of fake Polish accounts that posed as migrants. 02/12/2021
Now playing Next The Cube Fake COVID-19 health passes are being sold on Snapchat in France Dozens of fake accounts are using Snapchat to sell "fake health passes" for up to €300 each. 13/08/2021
Now playing Next The Cube 'Deepfake geography' could be the latest form of online disinformation As technology advances, experts warn that manipulated satellite images could be used as a form of disinformation aiming to downplay or cover up real-world situations. 07/05/2021
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Now playing Next The Cube Facebook investigates fake accounts sharing Spanish government content The Ministry of Health claims it was a victim of "fraudulent activity" after hundreds of false profiles liked and shared their content. 24/04/2020
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Now playing Next The Cube White House shares 'manipulated' and 'partly false' video of Joe Biden The viral clip appears to show the Democrat frontrunner endorsing Donald Trump as US President but had been shortened to remove the end of his sentence. 09/03/2020
Now playing Next The Cube Coronavirus: Malaysia arrests five for sharing misinformation online Authorities say they will continue to intensify efforts to control the spread of fake news "to maintain public peace and order". 29/01/2020
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