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This photo of rosaries confiscated at the US-Mexico border was taken in 2015

Published on Friday 12 July 2019 at 21:48
A photo of rosaries confiscated from migrants and discarded by the US Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) continues to be shared in posts on social media in June 2019, almost four years after it was captured. Photographer Tom Kiefer told AFP he took the image in July 2015 after having worked as a janitor at a CBP processing facility in Arizona until 2014. Current CBP policy states migrants’ personal property should be returned to them after they leave a CBP facility. But representatives from an NGO working at the US southern border told AFP that detained migrants continue to report some personal items confiscated by the authorities have never been returned to them. 
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Misleading meme includes doctored TIME magazine cover

Published on Wednesday 5 June 2019 at 15:46Updated on Wednesday 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.
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The best way to remove a tick is with fine-tipped tweezers, not soap and a cotton ball

Published on Wednesday 8 May 2019 at 20:32
An image has been shared tens of thousands of times on Facebook alongside claims that doctors believe “the best way” to remove ticks from your skin is by using soap and a cotton ball. However, Health Canada, the Ontario Ministry of Health and the Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation actually say the best way to remove ticks is with fine-tipped tweezers.
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No, this is not a fence on the border of Mexico and Guatemala

Published on Wednesday 9 January 2019 at 00:49Updated on Thursday 24 January 2019 at 15:16
A photo shared on Facebook claims to show a heavily fortified fence on the Mexico-Guatemala border. Mexico has no such border fence with Guatemala, and the photo is actually of a barricade along Israel's border with Egypt.
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No, this photograph of a Honduran migrant and her children running from tear gas was not staged

Published on Monday 3 December 2018 at 23:52Updated on Tuesday 11 December 2018 at 17:35
Social media posts and online articles claim a widely published Reuters photo of a Honduran woman and her children fleeing tear gas at the US-Mexico border on November 25, 2018 was “staged.” An image from another photographer of the same scene from a different angle, as well as multiple videos, prove that tear gas was fired. The other image also shows the Reuters photographer Kim Kyung-Hoon taking his photo and that the scene was not staged.
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