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The Bbc team are fact-checking some of The Most popular fake and misleading coronavirus stories on Social Media . Jack Goodman and Flora Carmichael bring together what unmasked This Week by The Bbc Monitoring, Trend and Reality Check .

Fake Facebook posts over The rocks

thousands of posts have been circulating on Facebook to help with huge cash prizes "" people affected financially by the Corona-Virus outbreak.

Although The Competition is clearly fake, it is divided into many languages. Most of the examples are related video footage or photos of Dwayne Johnson , an actor known as The Rock .

the participants are invited to choose a "prize" from a list corresponding to The First letter of your name. Some People have Left Bank details in the comments, others ask for financial assistance.

to pick up The Most commonly shared example, we have seen, contains a link for people to "profit". It looks like.

A video accompanied one of the posts someone shows dealing with piles of money, and had More Than four million views.

William Mitchell, says from the original video with a fake-or "prop" money for his YouTube channel that it was used without his knowledge. "Ever since I started prop money videos back in the year 2018 in a fraudulent re-Upload from my salary without my permission," he told The Bbc .

Johnson was previously the subject of a similar fraud, and in the year 2018, told his followers: "Be vigilant, be smart, question, report... and you don't buy in this fake Facebook accounts. "

herbal remedies given the official approval of a President

to prevent clear in their recommendations that there can be no medicine currently available, or to heal Covid-19.

However, The President of Madagascar has unveiled what he claimed to be a "preventive remedy" in This Week .

The herbal tonic, under the name sold Covid-Organics is derived from Artemisia - a plant that contains an active compound for the treatment of Malaria , together with other plants have their origin in the country.

President Andry Rajoelina said tests were conducted, and claimed that the means of Two People in Madagascar, The Island nation had healed on the East Coast of Africa.

so far There is no evidence and no peer-reviewed research into the efficacy against Covid-19.

President Rajoelina announced the partial lifting of the quarantine measures, on the same day as The Launch of the drink.

Local media reported that More Than 1,000 soldiers had been used to distribute the drink in the capital, Antananarivo.

Video footage shows people queuing for The Brew , which is distributed free of charge to The Most vulnerable local people. It is also sold in supermarkets.

The Max-Planck-Institute in Germany is currently Artemisia tests against Covid-19, but no results were released so far.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo, said, it is the study of The Plant has been initiated.

Orange peel myth

A video recommend that infected with Corona Virus is, use Hot Water , orange peel and a vapor RUB containing menthol, to kill bacteria and the release of "all the "toxins" have about 1. 6 million views on the video-sharing Sites, TikTok, before they disappear.

It was already a repost of a popular Instagram account, where it was viewed, an additional one million times before it was removed.

peel The fruit myth appears to be demand in many other videos on TikTok to a "cure" for Covid-19

There is no evidence that Hot Water or Citrus Fruits can prevent or cure coronavirus. By the inhalation of hot steam, it is recommended also in the video,

There have also been other examples of misleading information in circulation, TikTok. A series of videos, the proliferation of Conspiracy Theories that have been incorrectly posted link 5G-coronavirus in the past few weeks.

as well As the support 5G of conspiracies, some of The Videos have motivated attacks on phone masts with the hashtag 5Gtowerchallenge and featured harassment by telecommunications workers.

The Social -media platform has since removed A Number of videos of this type, which were characterized to it from Bbc News

A TikTok-spokesman for The Bbc said: "We will not allow false information, including the Conspiracy Theories , the cause could be detrimental to people on the TikTok or the wider public. "

TikTok also said it was "limiting the searchability of a new conspiracy theory-related hashtags".

for Aids research is not to blame

an interview with a Nobel prize-winning scientist, suggested that the Corona-Virus was in a laboratory in large parts on Facebook.

Luc Montagnier is the co-discoverer of HIV, and was interviewed on French TV last week, where he claimed The Virus was accidentally released from a laboratory in Wuhan. The Virus , He Said , is the result of research into an Aids vaccine.

despite the rampant speculation online says BBC science editor Paul Rincon.

Peer-reviewed scientific analysis of The Evidence of The Virus strikes came from animals.

The video has been shared 12,000 times and has clocked up More Than 700,000 views after it was posted on The Italian League party-the official Facebook page This Week .

< p > conspiracy to control world population

The Corona-Virus pandemic was the interview from "the shadow of global forces" in an attempt to reduce the world's population, according to Vladimir Kvachkov , a Russian ex-military intelligence officer in a YouTube.

Mr. Kvachkov says, it is the scientific proof of the Corona-Virus was man-made, but this was largely dismissed by scientists, who say that the genome sequencing shows that it came from animals.

Uploaded in the last month, it has had almost nine million views and is still divided on Facebook in different languages. It has also been translated into English, This Week .

His appearances on other Russian YouTube channels, where he creates conversations about the pandemic have hundreds of thousands of views.

Additional reporting by Olga Robinson, Alistair Coleman, Marianna spring, Omega Rakotomalala and rehabilitation Kansara.

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Source of news: bbc.com