Faux Images and Videos

Widely circulated image supposedly depicts US President Obama holding a phone handset upside down while posing for a photo opportunity.

Message that features an image of sharks swimming in a flooded lobby at the bottom of escalators claims that the picture was taken after the collapse of the shark tank at the Scientific Center in Kuwait.

This message, which circulated widely on Facebook, asks users to “like” a photograph purportedly depicting an entirely black lion.

Widely circulated video appears to show a pickup truck “catching” the front of a landing passenger jet with failed landing gear thereby saving the aircraft and its passengers from disaster.

A video, which supposedly depicts a young woman being killed by a car after a prank goes horribly wrong, has circulated widely via social media websites and email.

Circulating image supposedly shows US President Obama wearing a hat shaped like an acorn cap while smoking a cigarette.

Circulating photographs and videos purportedly depict an iceberg floating in the ocean near Cape Town, South Africa.

Circulating images supposedly depict a five-headed cobra found at Kukke Subrahmanya, a Hindu temple in the Indian state of Karnataka.

Message claims that the star “Aderoid” will move close to the Earth in June 2010 and will appear as large as the Sun to the naked eye.