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You can see the previous ones here: * PART I: The 48-hour hospital and other hoaxes * PART II: Rinsing your throat with salt water does not prevent coronavirus * PART III: The Ministry of Health has not made a statement on Chinese products * PART IV: The decontextualized video of a Chinese epidemiologist * PART V: The fake images that use the name of UNICEF to give advice on Covid-19 * PART VI: Videos of looting in supermarkets that are in other countries * PART VII: The team of 14 doctors who care for Pedro Sánchez and thieves disguised as doctors * PART VIII: Students will not have a general pass due to the coronavirus * PART IX: The collaborator who claims without evidence that the coronavirus was created in Wuhan * PART X: The video with manipulated subtitles against Irene Montero and Ortega Smith's statement that he never made * PART XI: Cuba and other topics about which hoaxes have been spread * PART XII: Vox is not going to donate the money they receive for representation in institutions to public health * PART XIII: Photomontages, a dangerous link and other fakes * PART XIV: Hoaxes about campaigns, medical supplies and other topics ## The State of Alarm has not changed the “rules for communication”: it is not they are recording the calls With the confinement imposed in many countries, a old message announcing “new measures for communication”, such as recording phone and WhatsApp calls, social media monitoring... All this It was false at the time and also now. ![\\"\\"](\\"\\") At the time it had to be denied by official institutions such as the Ecuadorian Ministry of the Interior. In this crisis it has been the Police Spanish national who has denied the variant that was circulating on WhatsApp to through his official Twitter account. ## The photo of former Minister Tejerina used to attribute a statement to a scientist A photo of a woman in front of a pair of microphones. The image is accompanied by a text that presents it as a “Spanish scientist” who has declared that elite soccer players earn “1 million euros per month and a bioscientist gets 1,800 euros per month” criticizing the situation of experts regarding the coronavirus. It is false that This woman is who the text says. ![\\"hoaxes](\\"\\") Beyond Mocejón: the other hoaxes that attributed crimes to migrants in Barcelona, ​​Tenerife or Getxo ![\\"\\"](\\"\\") The photograph is from a visit to Morocco on April 24, 2018 of the former Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Food and Environment Isabel García Tejerina. At that time, COVID-19 was not even known. As verified by AFP Factual Mexico, this policy made no such statements. ## Don't believe the video that says that the fines imposed “during the state “alarm” are null A link to a YouTube video titled “Son is being shared on WhatsApp “The fines due to the state of alarm are void.” It says that “the complaints imposed during the state of alarm are being rejected by the subdelegations of the Government of Spain.” Both the title and the content of the video are fake. ![\\"\\"](\\"\\") The Ministry of the Interior has denied these statements to Newtral.es, and ensures that complaints against those who do not obey the provisions of the state of alarm decree are being processed and are being notified to those affected. ![\\"Videos](\\"\\") Videos and images out of context: the hoaxes of the conflict between Israel, Lebanon and other countries in the region ## The policy that said that the coronavirus was a warning from nature “filling the earth with many older people” is not from Podemos All kinds of documents are circulating that show a woman saying that Elisabeth Merino, a Canarian councilor who said in a radio program that The coronavirus was due to "a warning from nature that it may be that we are filling the earth with many older people”, belongs to Podemos. It is false that this woman belongs to the group directed by Pablo Iglesias. ![\\"\\"](\\"\\") It is true that this woman is called Elizabeth Merino, just as it is true that have said such a thing. It is also true that it is political, but what is false is that be from Podemos. Merino belongs to a party called Somos Lanzarote, which It allied itself with Nueva Canarias more than a year ago. Nueva Canarias is a formation national and progressive formed in 2005, so it has no relationship with Podemos, as the messages claim. ## The hoax that says that Carmena has a respirator at home “for not going to a public hospital On March 31, various messages went viral on Twitter that claimed that former mayor Manuela Carmena had received a respirator at her home the company VitalAire to “not go to a Public Hospital and wait in line like the rest of the Spaniards.” The text used to be accompanied by a photo of a van of said company. All of this would take place in the context of the judge would have been infected with coronavirus. But all this is false. ![\\"\\"](\\"\\") Carmena denied these accusations to newtral.es and on Cadena Ser, where the described it as “slander.” On the other hand, the company assures that although the The van in the photograph is a vehicle prepared to deliver oxygen to patients, the company does not use those vehicles to deliver respirators to home. ## Don't believe the image that attributes statements to Christine Lagarde on the economic risks of longevity In the context of a pandemic that especially affects people older, images are circulating online that they attribute to the alleged director manager of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, the next statement: “The elderly live too long and that is a risk for the economy global". It is a hoax that Lagarde said these words. ![\\"\\"](\\"\\") To begin with, the position attributed to him is not current. He was in charge of the IMF until July 2019, which leads us to deduce that a time. Right now she holds the position of president of the European Central Bank. 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A Spanish scientist declares that elite soccer players earn one million euros a month and a bioscientist earns 1800 euros