Misleading

According to various messages spreading rapidly across Facebook, the social network is deleting ALL inactive users from Facebook groups.

Circulating message claims that an attached photograph shows a flower in Mexico that is the largest in the world and only blooms once every forty years for four days.

Unfortunately, this message combines information about a real threat with a silly virus hoax and this has caused considerable confusion.

Widespread speculation on the Internet suggests that the Google Street View car knocked over and possibly killed a donkey while driving down a bush road in Botswana. 

Email with attached photographs of an extensive collection of valuable old cars claims that a New York man discovered the vehicles locked in a barn on a property he bought in Portugal.

Circulating message claims that egg white is a “healing miracle” for burns and should be applied to burns as an immediate first aid measure.

Circulating message describes how a young woman named Lauren avoided being raped by a police impostor in an unmarked car by dialling *677 on her cell phone.

Circulating photograph purportedly shows a 22 foot, 2500 pound crocodile killed near a village on Africa’s Niger River.

Message claiming to be from the Mayo Clinic offers health advice related to the use of aspirin for preventing heart attacks.

According to various messages that have been circulating on Facebook for several months, a new Facebook algorithm is limiting posts on your newsfeed so that you only ever see posts from the same 25 friends.