Fact check: Hoax posts about killers and stabbings in local Facebook groups

Fake information has been posted to the social media site. (Yui Mok/PA) - (PA Wire)

This roundup of claims has been compiled by Full Fact, the UK’s largest fact checking charity working to find, expose and counter the harms of bad information.

Hoax posts about serial killers, stabbings, injured dogs and other alarming or emotive stories are still rife in local Facebook community groups, 18 months after a major Full Fact investigation exposed the scale of the problem.