A day after Palestinian militant group Hamas launched a surprise attack across the Israeli-Gaza border, Israel's military announced it had detained the deputy commander of the southern division in the Hamas naval force. Social media posts in multiple languages shared a photo falsely claiming it shows the deputy commander in custody. In fact, the picture precedes the latest surge in the conflict and shows Israeli troops capturing a "terror suspect" in an unrelated operation in the West Bank in Fe
A South Korean blogger says it is "baffling" that a photo she took for a paper shredder product review has been used in unrelated social media posts that claim officials being investigated over the troubled World Scout Jamboree shredded a decades' worth of documents. Commenters appeared to be misled into thinking the photo showed evidence of a coverup, but her product review photo was posted years before the jamboree.
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A picture of shredded papers on the back of a van has been repeatedly shared on social media falsely claiming it shows "documents destroyed by South Korea's National Election Commission (NEC)", suggesting that they are "proof of fraud in the country's 2020 general elections". The claim comes as an ongoing probe investigates allegations of nepotistic hiring practices in the agency and assert it swayed the 2020 elections. But the image is taken from a blog post by a shredding company posted in 201