As Bitcoin started feeling the heat of the ongoing changes in the economy, many prominent coins in the market crashed. $Luna (Terra) Holders observed a major crash this week, among the others. The trading price of the currency dropped almost 99% overnight.
Claim: 8 Confirmed Suicides due to Luna Coin Crash.
Investigation result: The news is baseless and not backed by statistical data. The viral claim is false.
As the big and small investors started exiting the Terra (LUNA) coin, fake news of “8 Confirmed Suicides due to Luna Coin Crash” went viral on Social Media. The information initially started viral on Pakistan-based media outlets and was later picked up by prominent Crypto-related handles on Twitter.
After watching the news of “8 Confirmed Suicides due to Luna Coin Crash” on Twitter, Major International Media outlets started covering the information on their portals, quoting the tweet. However, In our investigation, we found the first source of viral claim to be a Pakistani Twitter handler – “@republicdotpk” found to be spreading baseless news.
Although there are reports of users losing their life savings and quoting to media houses -‘I lost my life savings. One such piece was covered by International Media Outlet – Independent
It’s important to stay strong in difficult moments when many people lost their life savings due to the Terra (LUNA) Coin crash. Unfortunately, the claims like one that went viral on Social Media shattered people’s hope.
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