An audio message shared widely on South African WhatsApp groups claims to be a warning from a police officer about a new mobile network scam to steal money from shoppers. A spokeswoman for the South African Police Service told AFP they did not issue the message.

A video has been viewed tens of thousands of times in Facebook posts that claim it shows a Hindu man stabbing a Muslim youth with a knife in broad daylight on a busy street in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh for raping a girl. The claim is false; the video is actually from the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, where two Muslim men attacked the victim with knives for marrying their sister against her family’s will.