Claim: A video advertisement on Facebook encourages people to buy face masks for protection, as the novel coronavirus takes a deadly toll worldwide. The clip is misleading; it claims to show a family devastated by infection, as well as the doctor who invented the mask it is trying to sell, but the images are stock footage.
Fact-check: Face mask ad posted during coronavirus crisis claims stock images show infection-hit family
Verdict: partly false
Organisation: AFP Fact Check
Author: Unknown
Date published: 2020-04-15T00:51:00