claim: A Facebook post shared tens of thousands of times on social networks claims to show the Guinness World Records holder of “the youngest doctor in the world” - Cornell graduate, Iqbal El-Assaad, a Palestinian refugee who lived in Lebanon. However, these claims are false: a spokeswoman for the Guinness World Records has told AFP there is no record of Assaad. The Facebook and Twitter posts that we’ve archived here, here, here and here feature a photo of a young woman alongside claims that she’s the world’s youngest doctor, named as Iqbal El-Assaad.Youngest doctor in the world according to Guinness World Record
claim_en: A Facebook post shared tens of thousands of times on social networks claims to show the Guinness World Records holder of “the youngest doctor in the world” - Cornell graduate, Iqbal El-Assaad, a Palestinian refugee who lived in Lebanon. However, these claims are false: a spokeswoman for the Guinness World Records has told AFP there is no record of Assaad. The Facebook and Twitter posts that we’ve archived here, here, here and here feature a photo of a young woman alongside claims that she’s the world’s youngest doctor, named as Iqbal El-Assaad.Youngest doctor in the world according to Guinness World Record,