As heavy floods drenched Dubai in April 2024, a video of fish squirming about on a supermarket floor surfaced in Facebook posts that falsely claimed it showed an incident in the Middle East financial centre. The footage was in fact filmed years earlier in Georgia. It circulated in news reports from February 2018 about fish at a store in the Georgian capital Tbilisi that were left flopping around on the floor after their tank shattered.
Michigan Judge Kristen Simmons, while presiding over the case against several individuals facing felony charges for submitting false electoral votes for former President Donald Trump in 2020, began court Tuesday with a warning: Cut the social media posts. Simmons said at no time should photos be taken of witnesses, “nor should there Facebook posts or […] The post Judge in fake electors case warns social media posts during court could rise to criminal charges appeared first on Michigan Advance.