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False: Social media users could win a caravan in return for comments and shares on a Facebook post. A post on Facebook , shared over 5,000 times in under 24 hours, claims that social media users who share and comment on it could be in with a chance of winning a free caravan. Alongside a number of pictures of the caravan, the post says: "Due to having a few small dents and scrat (Source: Full Fact)

False: Video shows Congress MLA threatening a policeman in Karnataka. (More archives of similar claims can be found here, here, and here.)Are these claims true?: No, the video is from Telangana and shows Jaffar Hussain Meraj, who is an MLA from Nampally, speaking to a policeman. (Source: WebQoof - The Quint)