Results for 'hoax'
New Facebook photo rule hoax spreads
March 13, 2024 - A hoax telling people to copy and paste a copyright notice on Facebook has been making the rounds since 2012. Can we make it go away? Please!
Avoid this “lost injured dog” Facebook hoax
April 18, 2023 - Facebook users are advised to be wary of posts involving injured dogs receiving treatment at a vet surgery, or pets sitting...
“Baby dumped at the gate” post is a Facebook hoax
December 5, 2022 - Every so often, bizarre but oddly believable scams do the rounds on Facebook. And so we have the latest: A tragic tale...
Don’t share the WhatsApp ‘Martinelli’ phone hacking alert: It’s a hoax
September 6, 2022 - Everyone loves a good campfire story prone to exaggeration. However, when told online it’s not quite got the same effect. Long...
Brad Pitt subject of new hoax after split with Jolie
September 28, 2016 - News of famed actor, Brad Pitt, purportedly taking his own life has been making rounds within Facebook immediately after TMZ revealed...
New celebrity death hoax hits Facebook
August 9, 2016 - These past few days, it appears that Facebook (and YouTube) has become the launchpad to yet another celebrity death hoax. This...
January 1st Instagram Profile Deletion Hoax
December 30, 2014 - Watch out for accounts on Instagram claiming a mass purge is coming on January 1, 2015 unless your account is “verified”, with...
Hoaxes
March 25, 2013 - A hoax ( to trick into believing or accepting as genuine something false and often preposterous ) is the word we...
Don’t share the viral Instagram Meta AI “legal” post
September 25, 2024 - Instagram users are sharing a hoax in enormous numbers in an attempt at preventing Meta from harvesting their posts and photos to train its AI.
