The posts recommend that the continuing COVID-19 pandemic is linked to the rollout of 5G mobile phone technology. The claim is false; health authorities and expertise experts keep telecommunication technologies haven't any relationship with the creation or unfold of viruses.

The declare is deceptive; the video has circulated in reports a couple of mosque gathering within the Indian state of Maharashtra at some point earlier than India introduced a nationwide lockdown. An picture of a person sitting near Islam's holiest shrine, the Kaaba in Saudi Arabia, has been shared repeatedly in a number of posts on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and on online blogs. It was shared alongside a declare it shows a lone cleaner who was the one individual permitted to sit around the Kaaba during the coronavirus lockdown.

This declare is misleading; the video has circulated in media reports a few drunk police officer since no less than June 2017. “Plandemic” -- a slickly-edited, 26-minute interview with a discredited researcher -- has been widely shared on social media. But the video, which YouTube and Facebook are working to remove for violating content material standards, contains a number of false or misleading claims, including concerning the novel coronavirus, experts say.

With the novel coronavirus sending the US financial system into freefall, posts that listing telephone numbers for job seekers to name and find work have been shared 1000's of instances on Facebook and Instagram. But the numbers don't attain hiring hotlines as claimed and the businesses talked about advocate on the lookout for job openings on their official web sites. An image has been shared tons of of instances in a number of posts on Facebook which claim it reveals a government text message a few new coronavirus contact-tracing app in Australia. The claim is fake; Australian authorities mentioned the purported text message was a hoax; the Australian Federal Police mentioned it had launched an investigation. An image has been shared on Facebook in April 2020 alongside a claim that it reveals Muslims praying on a street in the Australian metropolis of Sydney.

The claim is fake; the photograph has been doctored to take away two individuals standing near the Kaaba; the original picture has circulated in media reports about a Saudi policeman praying on the Islamic shrine. A video has been considered tons of of thousands of times in a number of posts on Facebook and Twitter in May 2020 alongside claims that it reveals an intoxicated police officer in India after the federal government allowed liquor retailers to reopen during the nationwide COVID-19 lockdown.

The image was shared as town's residents continued to face stay-at-home orders through the novel coronavirus pandemic. Comments from some Facebook users on the misleading publish indicated they believed the photo was taken through the lockdown restrictions, when actually the photograph has circulated in stories since 2013 about people praying on a Sydney road throughout Ramadan. The similar image has previously circulated with a deceptive declare that it reveals people praying on a road in the US. Multiple posts shared thousands of times on Facebook declare that the United States has found a cure for the novel coronavirus.

This is fake; the images being shared are of rapid test kits made in South Korea, while the hunt for a remedy continues. A Facebook post shared more than 29,000 occasions claims people in Pennsylvania who do not put on a face mask in public during the novel coronavirus pandemic risk a $500 fantastic and as much as six months in jail. This is false; authorities in the US state suggest carrying face masks as a precaution, however say they will not penalize those who do not.