A June 22 Facebook post (direct link, archived link) features a video of a man making claims about passengers aboard a submersible that imploded while heading for the Titanic shipwreck site.
“What is the coincidence that the father and the son that are trapped on this contraption right here, in this tin can, are part of an organization that us Americans and Canadians all despise?” says the person in the video, which was posted before the U.S. Coast Guard announced it had recovered wreckage indicating the sub had imploded.
The video then shows what appears to be a biography of a British Pakistani man named Shahzada Dawood on the World Economic Forum website.
“He is part of the World Economic Forum," says the man in the video. "He’s also the vice chairman of World Economic Forum.”
One version of the post shared on Facebook garnered more than 3,000 likes in one day before it was deleted. Other iterations of the claim have been shared on Instagram, Twitter and TikTok.
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Dawood, one of the passengers who died aboard the Titan, was the vice chairman of Engro Corporation, a Pakistani holding company partnered with the WEF. He was not the vice chairman of the WEF or a member of the organization’s leadership.
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