Misleading

This story was first published on January 7, 2014 Outline Caption on a circulating image depicting a roadway at the bottom of a…

Circulating message claims that if a man takes a pregnancy test and gets a positive result, it means he most likely has testicular cancer.

Circulating social media message claims that a newborn baby abandoned in a forest was carried across a busy road and through a barbed wire fence to safety by a stray dog.

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.