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30 Oct, 12 tweets, 14 min read
#Thread🚨: Post the beheading of #SamuelPaty, a French teacher on October 16, 2020, for showing his class caricatures of the #ProphetMohammed, BOOM has debunked misinformation being shared on Indian social media. 👇🏽(1/n) #FakeNews #France #BOOMFactCheck
An image of a group welcoming refugees in Kent, United Kingdom was shared falsely claiming that it showed Samuel Paty, the slain French teacher welcoming refugees a few years ago. (2/n) #FakeNews #France #SamuelPaty
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A nearly three-year-old clip showing protests and counter-protests against the decision to close a prayer hall in the Paris suburb of Clichy was revived falsely claiming it as a recent incident after the attack. (3/n) #FakeNews #France #SamuelPaty
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A 2017 clip showing Emmanuel Macron being splattered with an egg on his head was being shared online falsely linking it to the French president #EmmanuelMacron's remarks defending free speech following the attack. (4\n) #FakeNews #France #SamuelPaty
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French football player #PaulPogba had rubbished media reports which falsely claimed that he had quit the national team in protest against President #EmmanuelMacron's recent comments on Islam. (5\n) #FakeNews #France #SamuelPaty
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A video from Yemen in 2019 when crowds gathered to celebrate the birth of #ProphetMohammed was being shared with false claims linking it to the recent incident. (6\n) #FakeNews #France #SamuelPaty
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An eight-year-old video showing protestors attack the German embassy in Sudan was being peddled as a recent attack on the French embassy in the country. (7\n) #FakeNews #France #SamuelPaty #Sudan
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A nearly eight-year-old clip showing Turkish police dispersing protesters offering prayers during a sit-in protest was shared falsely claiming that Muslims in #France were attacked by the police for praying on the street. (8\n) #FakeNews #France #Turkey
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A set of four unrelated videos and some from other countries were viral falsely claiming that the French government was taking action against Muslims in the country and have also started cracking down on mosques. (9\n) #FakeNews #France #SamuelPaty
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A video from August is viral with the false claim that it shows the recent attack in Nice in which three people were killed and which French authorities have called an "Islamist terrorist attack". (10/n) #FakeNews #BOOMFactCheck #France #NiceTerrorAttack

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CCTV footage capturing a brawl between three men at a diner in Minas Gerais, Brazil is being shared with a false claim that it shows a Muslim man being attacked in France. (11/n) #FakeNews #France #FranceTerrorAttack

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An edited screengrab of a news story is viral to falsely claim that journalist Rana Ayyub condoned the beheading in France and justified the recent attacks. (12/n) #FakeNews #FranceBeheading #FranceTerrorAttack #RanaAyyub

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