The fake celebrity cash giveaway

BBC teams are fact-checking some of the most popular fake and misleading coronavirus stories on social media. Jack Goodman and Flora Carmichael bring together what's been debunked this week by BBC Monitoring, Trending and Reality Check.Thousands of posts have been circulating on Facebook offering huge cash prizes to"help" people financially affected by the coronavirus outbreak.

The most widely shared example we've seen includes a link for people to"collect their prize". It looks likeA video accompanying one of the posts shows someone handling stacks of money and has had more than four million views. However, the president of Madagascar has unveiled what he claims to be a"preventative remedy" this week.

President Rajoelina announced the partial lifting of quarantine measures on the same day as the launch of the drink.

As shown on the BBC. Mass COVID19 deaths in Italy. Turns out they were the bodies of African migrants who drowned in 2013.

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BBCScotlandNews Pathetic!. Have you lot nothing better to do?. What about this one? Have we suddenly found a cure for age old diseases and beat crime?

Let me help you with that.

Anyone leaving bank account details in this day and age deserves to be cleaned out..anyway interpol should be tracking down scammers and charge them with crimes against humanity especially during world crises.

BBC fact checking.... lol BBC wouldn't knoe a fact if it jump up and bit them pn their arse..

Not a single remainer gave a penny. Typical.

Really after running one of your main stories straight out the sun ffs🙄🙄🙄🙄

These are the same fools who fell for the Lysol scam

The latest YouGov poll has found that 72% of people do not trust journalists over the Coronavirus crisis. TheSpurrShow asks: Why are journalists suffering reputational damage?

it gets funnier as you go down the list and escalates from orange peels to plots in controlling world population

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