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

Photo: The Platinum Jubilee will not cost each UK household $48,000 (Image source: Facebook/The Royal Family)

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

Pfizer CEO did not say he wants to reduce world population by half by 2023

False claim: Social media users around the world have shared a video in which Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla allegedly states during an interview that the pharmaceutical company aims to reduce the world's population by 50% by 2023.

Truth:

• A reverse image search shows that the video shared on social media is part of an interview given by Bourla last May during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

• In the original recording, available on the World Economic Forum's YouTube page, it is possible to hear Bourla saying that among the goals set by Pfizer in 2019 for the next five years, one of them was to “reduce the number of people in the world that cannot afford...

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