Hoaxes

Circulating image depicts a packet of Tim Tams chocolate biscuits featuring the allergy warning “MAY CONTAIN TRACES OF PEANUTS AND HUMAN FLESH”.

Message claims that Earth and Mars will have the closest approach in recorded history in August and will be a spectacular sight for stargazers.

Messages circulating via social media advise users to stop using the abbreviation “LOL” because it stands for “Lucifer Our Lord’ and including it in messages is actually endorsing Satan.

Circulating message claims that aircraft company Boeing is set to launch a 1000 passenger jet aircraft that sports a radical Blended Wing design and will be called the Boeing 797. The message features several images supposedly depicting the new Boeing 797. 

This message tells the story of Daisy, a guide dog who lead her blind owner and almost 1000 others out of the doomed WTC towers after the 9/11 terrorist attack.

Message claims that smartphone instant messaging application WhatsApp needs its users to re-send the same message to everyone on their contact lists to prove that they are active users because the company’s “servers have recently been really full” or are “very congested”.

In early June 2018, rumours began circulating via social media that claimed that much-loved  Glen, New Hampshire theme park Story Land was closing down in the fall.

Chain message claims to present photographic evidence that the moon was once split in two thereby supposedly giving scientific support to Islamic stories of a miracle once performed by the Prophet Muhammad in which he split the moon into two parts.

Message claims that a large quantity of UPS uniforms has recently been bought on eBay and that the uniforms could be used by criminals or terrorists posing as delivery drivers.