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Misleading: Video shows Indonesian presidential hopeful Anies Baswedan's big rally in East Kalimantan in 2023 A video has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times in multiple Indonesian social media posts alongside a misleading claim that it shows a mass crowd joining presidential hopeful Anies Baswedan's event in East Kalimantan province. The video actually shows clips of two separate events: an event in East Kalimantan that Anies attended in February 2023 and an unrelated motorcycle club activity in Yogyakarta province in October 2022. (Source: Agence France-Presse - AFP)

False: Photo of a street in Indian-administered Kashmir ahead of G20 meeting. An image of a colourfully painted, brightly lit street has been shared on social media platforms alongside false claims the road is in Indian-administered Kashmir and was renovated ahead of a G20 tourism meeting there in May 2023. But the picture corresponds to Google Street View imagery of a street in a southern Bangladesh town, and the photographer who took it told AFP the image is unrelated to the G20 meeting. (Source: Agence France-Presse - AFP)

Public Health Fakes:  drinking alcohol every day is good for your health. Issue #32 This week, we refute the reports of regional telegram channels that moderate alcohol consumption is allegedly good for health. “A glass of vodka every day should protect against cardiovascular diseases,” the authors of the channels write, referring even to scientific studies. We  (Source: Vox Ukraine)

False: A kind-hearted woman is using Facebook to help return vintage photos to their original owner. Various posts appealing to Facebook users to help find the owners of vintage photos are fake. They are part of an engagement bait scam that encourages people to spread the content to a wide audience. The posts are then edited to feature suspicious links. (Source: Australian Associated Press - AAP)