BBC全球虚假信息部的调查显示，自2025年10月至2025年7月期间，一则关于"性器官失窃"的虚假信息在社交媒体上传播，已导致非洲多国超过80人丧生1。这些谣言声称仅仅是肩膀接触就会导致男性生殖器萎缩或消失，通过社交媒体平台广泛传播1。暴力事件最初在刚果民主共和国出现，随后蔓延至布隆迪、赞比亚、坦桑尼亚、莫桑比克、安哥拉、马拉维和肯尼亚等地1。
各国遭受不同程度影响。莫桑比克情况最为严重，该国5月报告在仅6周内有55人被杀害1。肯尼亚在7月后于沿海县（夸莱和蒙巴萨）报告有5人遇难1，马拉维则有8人死亡1。坦桑尼亚机械师博尼法斯·姆加拉在2025年4月1日遭到袭击，其友人也因此丧生1。莫桑比克总统丹尼尔·查波公开谴责了这一局面，称政府的医学检验未发现任何人失去身体部位的证据1。肯尼亚蒙巴萨郡专员穆罕默德·努尔表示"此类虚假信息很容易导致生命丧失"1。肯尼亚还发生过一对父子因殴打被指控引起生殖器消失的女性而被判处一年监禁的案件1。
面对这场危机，Meta发言人表示正在审查相关内容并采取行动1，但TikTok尚未做出回应1。
BBC's Global Disinformation Hub has documented a surge of fatal violence across African nations driven by false claims of genital theft between October 2025 and July 2025, resulting in more than 80 deaths 1. The rumors, which spread rapidly through social media platforms, allege that casual physical contact such as a shoulder bump can cause male genitalia to shrivel or disappear 1. Violence linked to these accusations first erupted in the Democratic Republic of Congo before spreading to Burundi, Zambia, Tanzania, Mozambique, Angola, Malawi, and Kenya 1.
Mozambique has been hit hardest by the violence, with reports indicating that 55 people were killed over a six-week period in May 2025 1. Kenya's coastal counties of Kwale and Mombasa saw five deaths after July 2025 1, while Malawi recorded eight fatalities 1. In Tanzania, a mechanic named Boniface Mgala was attacked on April 1, 2025, in which his friend was killed 1. Despite the bloodshed, Mozambique's President Daniel Chapo has publicly condemned the violence and stated that the government has found no medical evidence of anyone losing body parts 1. Kenya's Mombasa County Commissioner Mohamed Noor warned that such disinformation "can easily result in loss of life" 1.
Legal consequences have followed in some cases. A father and son in Kenya were sentenced to one year in prison for assaulting a woman they accused of causing genital shrinkage 1. Meta representatives stated they are reviewing content and taking action on the platforms 1, though TikTok has not responded to inquiries about the matter 1.
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