Claim: A Facebook user is appealing for help to find her five-year-old niece who has gone missing.
Fact-check: Missing girl hoax uses photo of kidnapped US child - Full Fact
Verdict: the post is a hoax. the post uses a photo from a us article about an eight-year-old child who was found in march 2023 after being kidnapped in 2018.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Evie Townend
Date published: 2023-07-14T00:00:00