Social media users have shared posts incorrectly claiming that changes the UK government introduced in August over how it counts COVID-19 deaths are a "scam" to artificially raise figures.

Social media users have been sharing a screenshot of an NPR article entitled “Trump Supporters Storm U.S. Capitol, Clash with Police”, claiming that the timestamp on the article, “January 6, 2021, 9:33 AM ET”, proves that the storming of the Capitol was a staged event planned by the so-called “Deep State”. This claim is false: at 9:33am the headline of the article read “Diehard Trump Supporters Gather in Nations Capital to Protest Election Results” and it was later updated to reflect the stormin

A social media post shared widely suggests that either masks don’t work or COVID-19 case counts in the United Kingdom are “fake”. This is misleading. Face coverings were not promoted as the solution to preventing all coronavirus transmission and there is no evidence that COVID-19 case numbers recorded by the UK government are fake.

A video that features different speakers discussing the development of a COVID-19 vaccine features a number of misleading claims. These include the suggestion that young people are at “absolutely no risk” from COVID-19, that a change in the season will end cases of the disease and that Ivermectin is a known effective treatment that is being ignored.

Social media users have been sharing a screenshot of a fabricated tweet allegedly from Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez saying that now Joe Biden has been elected president, they should begin “the purge” to round up “Conservative traitors” that will be worse than the holocaust.

Social media users have claimed an image shows an unsafe COVID-19 vaccine that is only distributed in Africa. This is incorrect.

Posts on social media are making the claim that Canadian singer Abel Makkonen Tesfaye, known as The Weeknd had “plastic surgery” to alter his face. This is false, as photos show the musician was wearing prosthetics for a music video. 

A post has claimed that if a person dies of a heart attack after testing positive for COVID-19, their death will be labeled as a virus-related death, but that if they die from a heart attack after receiving the vaccine the heart attack will be recorded as the cause of death. This claim is missing context.

Social media users have been sharing an article that undermines the COVID-19 vaccine by saying 24 people died in a nursing home in Auburn, New York, after it was administered. The article does not mention that the nursing home’s COVID-19 outbreak predated the vaccinations. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says the COVID-19 vaccine does not infect patients with the disease, but those who may have contracted COVID-19 before they are vaccinated can become ill after a vaccination

A video being shared on social media in which an unidentified man shouts at a member of the Irish police force, An Garda Síochána, contains false information about the COVID-19 pandemic.