Doctored headline wrongly says 500m refugees about to arrive in Europe

A screenshot made to seem like a New York Publish article has been circulating on social media stating that 500 million refugees are about to reach in Europe. Euronews has fact-checked these claims.

Many social media customers sharing a screenshot of a supposed New York Publish headline stating that the United Nations have issued a stark warning a few large inflow of refugees from Africa quickly arriving to Europe. 

No hint of article on-line

The screenshot didn’t embrace the New York Publish brand however used the identical typeface and credited an actual reporter from the newspaper. 

After looking out the New York Publish web site, Euronews didn’t discover any hint of this text. Nevertheless, this text that was discovered was printed on the identical date, on the identical time, and even by the identical reporter. 

A spokesperson confirmed to Reuters and Related Press that no such article was ever printed and that this screenshot had been a doctored one. 

The UN says it has by no means issued this warning

As well as, Euronews spoke to a spokesperson of the UN Refugee Company who confirmed that the company had by no means launched such an announcement. 

However is Europe actually going through a large wave of immigration? For the second, there’s no proof of that. For instance, the info from the Worldwide Group for Migration exhibits that 50,630 refugees ⁠— from all nations not simply from the African continent ⁠— have arrived in Europe to date in 2022. 

The identical knowledge set exhibits that 151,417 refugees from around the globe arrived in Europe in 2021. These numbers are nowhere close to the five hundred million allegedly predicted within the pretend headline.

5 hundred million continues to be over 5 occasions the entire variety of refugees on this planet in 2021 in keeping with the UNHCR.

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