Social media is abuzz with claims that humans can survive by eating nothing but honey, but following that diet could have serious health consequences.

Multiple iterations of false claims that a famous restaurant owner has kicked out a controversial or well-known person have appeared across social media.

Claims that a school teacher was arrested and later jailed for his refusal to "endorse transgenderism" are misrepresenting the truth.

A former soap actor claims Keir Starmer is not the UK's prime minister after failing to take the "oath of office" – but no such oath exists.

A video doing the rounds on social media claims energy drinks like Celsius contain 'four times' the safe level of cyanide, but that's far from the truth.

TikTok founder Zhang Yiming has been wrongly identified as a man missing both legs in a viral video on social media that actually shows someone else.

Just hours after the former Labor leader announced his political retirement, social media users claimed he was in line for a huge taxpayer-funded annual pension.

Former deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce claimed electricity prices were cheaper in France and Finland than in Australia, but experts say that's not entirely true.

Videos of people shopping in China are being used to claim citizens can't buy food unless they have a social credit score above 650.

A 2001 NASA presentation on emerging defence technology is being used to falsely claim the agency wants to engender the "collapse of civilisation".

False claims about sunglasses tricking the body into not protecting itself against the sun have been circulating on social media.

A response to a Freedom of Information request has been misrepresented and used to push a baseless conspiracy theory about the mpox disease.

A hoax news story is being used to suggest the arrest of Telegram founder Paul Durov has resulted in a diplomatic spat involving billions of dollars of fighter jets.

Social media posts are spreading a baseless theory that the Algerian Olympic boxing champion has had her gold medal and "$25 million" of prize money "revoked", but it's not true.

People are falling victim to a digitally altered video purporting to show Kamala Harris's vice presidential pick dancing in a cowboy hat and with his midriff exposed.

Australian senator Ralph Babet has accused the US vice president of being a "race hustler" and "communist" who is identifying as black to gain a political advantage.

A University of Sydney statistical analysis looking at COVID-19 booster vaccines has been misrepresented in a claim spreading online.

The prime minister claimed "nothing has changed" about his government's position on gender and sexuality questions in the 2026 census, contradicting comments from senior Labor colleagues.

New rules proposed around genetically modified foods and products in New Zealand have led to false claims about lab-grown meat.

A social media post omits some vital details in claiming a major glacier in the northwest of Greenland is in rude health.