[THREAD] 🇭🇹 Rumours that cannibalism is common in #Haiti have been widely shared on social media. These rumours are largely based on three videos, including this one. (1/14) But this video has nothing to do with Haiti: it was filmed in #China, at “Chimelong Ocean Kingdom”, a theme park located on Hengqin island, in October 2018, during Halloween festivities. The “bodies” were not even real. (2/14)

[THREAD] This Ivorian mercenary appeared next to Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin in a video published in early January.

The @FRANCE24 Observers team identified the man and traced his journey from Ivory Coast to Russia and Ukraine. 1/10 In the video, the young Ivorian says he’s from Moscow as Prigozhin cuts in: “He’s from Ivory Coast”.

He said he wanted to help “defend his second homeland” despite not yet having Russian citizenship. 2/10

[Thread] The #Taliban have begun conducting house-to-house searches to round up activists and journalists in cities around #Afghanistan. 1/

observers.france24.com/en/asia-pacifi… We spoke to five people, who are currently in hiding, about how the #Taliban is searching for the people on its blacklist.

In #Kabul, there are checkpoints set up around the city. But in provincial cities around the country, the Taliban uses more direct methods. 2/

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"Chinese people eating #batsoup"... You've probably seen some of these videos that have flooded social networks since the outbreak of the #coronavirus epidemic in China, with caption suggesting that eating bats was a cause of the virus. We fact-checked seven videos... First off, we talked to several experts in Chinese cuisine. They all agreed: there is no tradition of eating bats in Chinese culture. It's generally seen as disgusting, in #Wuhan and elsewhere in #China.