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This photo of Queen Elizabeth crying was taken in 2002, not at a D-Day commemoration in 2019

Published on 7 June 2019 at 23:12

A picture of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II tearing up was shared thousands of times on Facebook with the claim that it was taken at a ceremony for the 75th anniversary of D-Day. The claim is false. While the picture does capture a personal moment for the Queen, it was actually taken during a Remembrance Day service on November 7, 2002.

‘Bad ass’ women in WWII: This picture is from 1945 and was not taken in Normandy

Published on 6 June 2019 at 18:37

A photograph shared on Facebook around the 75th anniversary of D-Day claims to show women of the Red Cross landing on a Normandy beach in 1944. This is false; the photo was actually taken seven months later on a beach in Southern France.

No, this story about a woman being acquitted of homicide in Texas after shooting a thief is not true

Published on 5 June 2019 at 23:40Updated on 5 June 2019 at 23:40

A Facebook post shared more than 11,000 times claims to tell the story of a waitress who killed a man after he tried to steal her purse before being acquitted of all charges in the US state of Texas. The story, which recently resurfaced in Canada, is falsely attributed to The Houston Herald newspaper which published a debunk of the tale in 2009. The current version of the claim also uses an unrelated picture of a woman convicted in the US state of Alabama in 2014.

Misleading meme includes doctored TIME magazine cover

Published on 5 June 2019 at 15:46Updated on 5 June 2019 at 18:57

A meme featuring two apparent TIME covers claims that the US magazine published a front page story about a “Coming Ice Age” in 1977. This is false; the picture has been doctored from a real TIME magazine cover featuring a story on global warming in 2007.

No, an Ontario bill will not ban Christians from demonstrating in public

Published on 5 June 2019 at 00:12Updated on 5 June 2019 at 16:20

An article claims that a proposed law in Ontario will "officially criminalize Christianity" in the Canadian province. Bill 84, which aims to prohibit hate-promoting demonstrations on the grounds of the Ontario legislature in Toronto, does not make any mention of Christians or Christianity. The Ontario MP who proposed it told AFP that Christians are not targeted by the bill.

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