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After this video was shared online, many Iranian users began to call Mehrdad Sepehri the 'Iranian George Floyd' on social media.

Another video of police violence in the Islamic Republic: ‘Iran’s George Floyd’
A fire broke out on a canoe off the coast of Senegal on October 23. (Screengrab from social media)

Deadly boat fire highlights the dangerous migration route from Senegal to the Canary Islands

This large gathering wasn't filmed in Istanbul in 2020, but in Sana'a (Yemen) in 2019 to celebrate the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad. Screen capture from Facebook.

This huge crowd in Turkey has nothing to do with France's Muhammad cartoons
In a misleading clip viewed over 7 million times online, Joe Biden seems to admit to widespread voter fraud. The full video interview refutes this claim. (Screenshots: Twitter)

Joe Biden admits to voter fraud? This video was taken out of context
On October 24, hundreds of people raided the contents of a warehouse said to contain undistributed Covid-19 aid in Jos, Nigeria. (Screenshot: Twitter)

'Suffering and starving': In Nigeria, citizens raid warehouse full of undistributed aid
These images showing French products pulled from supermarket shelves in several Muslim countries have spread online since October 23.

Cheese and cosmetics: Stores in Muslim countries boycott French products
Syrian mercenaries exchange fire with Armenian soldiers in Nagorno-Karabakh at the beginning of October. In the centre, a young Syrian films himself on the frontline during a bombardment near Horadiz. (Screengrabs.)

Videos shared on social media show Syrians sent to fight in Nagorno-Karabakh
Several people in Algeria reached out to our team at FRANCE 24 Observers to let us know that there had been a new wave of arrests in Oran and that some migrants had been deported to Niger. (These are screengrabs and images sent to the Observers.)

Algerian authorities crack down on migrants, deporting many to Niger
French president Emmanuel Macron, billionaire Bill Gates, the president of the World Health Organisation and the national director for public health in Quebec were all spotted wearing a multi-colored badge. Does that mean that they are all part of a secret

No, this colorful badge doesn’t indicate membership to the New World Order
A viral video that supposedly predicted the coronavirus pandemic in 1956 has been shared numerous times on social media since August. However, this video is not a public service announcement made in 1956, but a satirical video made in 2020.

Debunked: This viral 'public service announcement' did not predict Covid-19 pandemic
Afghan police published a video claiming it shows their attacks on the Taliban, but it is actually a video of an American training exercise.

Afghan Police published US Marines video presented as their army striking the Taliban
The Ghazanchesots Cathedral (shown at left) and the Gandja market (at right) were the two civilian structures bombed during the ongoing fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh.

Civilians describe daily toll as war rages in Nagorno-Karabakh
This screenshot of an October 14 Twitter video shows a crowd of Nigerian #EndSARS protesters singing at Lekki Toll Gate in Lagos. However, other peaceful protests in the country have been upended by police violence.

Nigerian protests against police brutality upended by deadly violence
Screengrab of a video posted on Twitter on October 5, showing a group of Turkish ultra-nationalists storming Kurtulus, a neighbourhood in Istanbul that is home to a large Armenian population.

Turkish ultranationalists storm Armenian neighbourhoods in Istanbul as fighting rages in Nagorno-Karabakh
Photos of mail-in ballots mistakenly sent to former residents or dead people have been circulating on social media in the run-up to the US presidential election, raising concerns about potential voter fraud.

'Voter Fraud Alert!' - US voters post photos of their unsolicited mail-in ballots online
Lots of people shared this photo on social media, claiming it showed a 19-year-old named Patrick Nkuriza, who had just been appointed as a minister by Rwandan President Paul Kagame. But the story was completely fabricated.

No, Rwandan President Paul Kagame did not appoint a 19-year-old minister
Iranian police expose suspected criminals in public and humiliate them. (Screengrab of videos shared by eyewitnesses.)

How Iranian police publicly shame suspected criminals
Nearly every day, crowds gather in front of currency exchange offices in Iran.

Violence, suicide and addiction: an unprecedented economic crisis plunges Iranian society into chaos
(Left to right) October 4 Facebook image of David, or “Lunch Brother”, and a friend reading newspapers in protest in front of police; David making "5 demands, not one less" gesture; October 5 image of David protesting at Maritime Square shopping mall.

Teenage Hong Kong activist ‘Lunch Brother’ gains online followers and protest-movement critics
President Donald Trump’s son tweeted this video, alleging that it showed a group of leather-clad bikers praying for Trump. Turns out, that’s not the actual story behind this video. (Screengrab)

Eric Trump shares fake story about leather-clad bikers praying for President Trump
The photo on the left was taken and posted on social media during a protest led by women carrying bouquets of flowers to protest the re-election of the Belarussian president Alexander Lukashenko. The photo on the right was taken by our Observer, Basia.

Women lead the protests against Belarus’s contested election despite violent arrests
Volunteers helping animals who were injured or whose homes were destroyed by fire in the Pantanal, the world’s largest tropical wetlands, spanning a vast terrain in Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay (shared by our Observer Eduarda Fernandes).

Volunteers rush to help animals hurt or displaced by wildfires in Brazil’s Pantanal wetlands
Families exhume the bodies of relatives who died of Covid-19 and were buried in Wadi Al Salam cemetery in Najaf. Some families, however, didn’t find their relatives’ bodies where they were supposed to be buried. (Screengrab, social media)

Iraqi families retrieve bodies of loved ones buried during Covid-19 lockdown
Images from a viral tweet posted by Elijah Schaffer on September 25, 2020 who claimed that they were mail-in ballots thrown in a dumpster in California.

Debunked: Viral photographs do not show a thousand mail-in ballots in California dumpster
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