The most shared false claims around the globe, curated by Blasting News’s editorial team

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Unique contribution: We are monitoring social media, national and international media, and fact-checking websites in order to share the fake news making the rounds this week. Don't be fooled! Edited by Angelo Paura.

The world of news is complex – and false stories and images are often widely shared on social media. Blasting News’s editorial team spots the most popular hoaxes and misleading information every week to help you discern truth from falsehood. Here are some of the most shared false claims of this week, of which none are legit.

World

Discovery claim of scroll of the Book of Esther in Iran is fake

False claim: Social media users have shared images of an alleged original scroll of the Book of Esther, a text that recounts the liberation of the Jewish people from a plan to exterminate them in the 5th century BC, during the reign of Xerxes I. “The original book of Esther was recently found in Iran by a Jew who lived there.

The scroll is from 1500 years ago. The beauty is everything written in pure gold,” reads the description of one of the posts.

Truth:

• Speaking to the AFP, Lawrence Schiffman, a professor and director of New York University's Global Network for Advanced Research in Jewish Studies, said the document is clearly a fake and features...

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