Misleading

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.

This message, which is circulating rapidly via social media, asks you to help get a prayer chain going for an 8-month-old baby named Dakota Miller who is supposedly in a critical condition after shooting himself with a nailgun.

According to various posts that circulate via social media and video sharing websites, romaine lettuce leaves are covered by a thin film of plastic. The posts feature videos showing people peeling off the supposed plastic film from the lettuce leaves.

Long circulated Internet message claims that pureed asparagus can cure cancer. The message cites several cases as examples. It claims that the information came from one Richard R. Vensal, D.D.S. and was printed in the ‘Cancer News Journal’ back in December 1979.