Social Media Rumors About The Nice Attack That You Shouldn't Believe

Several tweets from Thursday night mentioned a hostage situation in a Buffalo Grill restaurant, and in the Negresco and Le Méridien hotels.

The French Interior Ministry responded in a tweet that there was no hostage situation.

This man's face keeps appearing on social media in the aftermath of major tragedies, including, for example, the EgyptAir crash and the Istanbul airport attack last June.

According to France 24, "several online articles, including on the BBC website, reported at the time that 'trolls' enjoyed circulating pictures of fake victims of the accident, 'in order to trick the media'."

On Thursday night, in the immediate aftermath of the attack in Nice, pictures and video of a fire near the base of the Eiffel Tower began circulating on social media. Some people suggested this could be another attack linked to the one in Nice. But the Paris police department tweeted to say it was an accidental fire related to the Bastille Day fireworks display in the city: "Do not circulate false rumors. No fire in the #TourEiffel. An accidental fire took place on the Iéna bridge. It has been extinguished."

At the time of publication, no group has claimed responsibility for the attack. On Thursday night and Friday morning, however, several people online, including the deputy director of Paris Match, claimed that ISIS was behind the events.

Less than a year after he was wrongly being accused of being responsible for the attacks in Paris, an image circulating online claims Veerender Jubbal was involved in the Nice attack.