Social media users are claiming the word 'Easter' has been removed by confectionery company Cadbury across its entire range of Easter eggs.

A 2018 social media post made several statements claiming to be statistics about crimes associated with people of Sudanese origin in Victoria. The post is continuing to be shared in 2020.

A theory being widely shared on social media posts claims a 1981 novel by best-selling US author Dean Koontz predicted the coronavirus Covid-19 outbreak.

Brains - typically crumbed lamb brains - did feature on Australian kitchen menus in the past but a Facebook post claiming to show Heinz canned brains from the 1980s gives pause for thought.

The date for Australia Day is controversial but a social media post claims the reason January 26 is the date for national celebrations has been "lost", misunderstood or twisted by the media.

An image purporting to be a "real" historical photo of a World War I-era atrocity is being shared on Australian and overseas Facebook pages.

Onions might bring on tears but a Facebook post about their supposed health benefits and risks, and their dangers for dogs, seeks to bring on fears.

A post on Instagram headlined "Ripcurl Model Application" is attracting a lot of shares and comments with an apparent call for "Models aged 11-21" to represent surfwear brand Rip Curl.

As Valentine's Day approaches, a claim is spreading that Australian rose farms have been damaged by bushfires and so most of the nation's romantic roses will be imported.

Hot cross buns, those Easter treats that appear in supermarkets just after Christmas, are the subject of a social media post that raises fears about the health effects of a spicy ingredient.

A Facebook post claims that the current 2019 novel coronavirus is more deadly than HIV or Ebola but the statistics for these diseases say otherwise.

As authorities work to contain the potentially fatal coronavirus in Australia, misinformation about the outbreak of disease that originated in Wuhan, China has spread quickly across social media.

Australia's brutal bushfire season might be easing but efforts to assign blame for the disaster continue to blaze on social media.

Did deputy Nationals leader Bridget McKenzie fund programs that were recommended for funding?

The novel coronavirus has triggered multiple false and misleading claims about the origins of the disease outbreak across social media. A new claim is that the infection is a “man-made” combination of the HIV-1 virus and the SARS virus.

The claim that human-caused carbon emissions are a drop in the bucket compared to greenhouse gases from volcanoes has been making its way around the internet and social media for years.

Social media users are questioning the origins of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus as it continues to spread after discovering that some Dettol cleaning products “kill” the human coronavirus.

As cases of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus increase, information on the number of people infected and the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) response to the outbreak continues to spread on social media.

Australia's 2019/20 bushfire crisis has sparked many online arguments about the causes of the fires, including claims arsonists are behind many or a majority of the blazes.

With the Australian bushfire crisis still making global headlines, a number of social media posts have told of "reports" of wombats saving fellow wildlife by shepherding them into their burrows.