Fact check: Monstrous sea creatures aren’t being pulled from the depths

This article is part of The Globe’s initiative to cover disinformation and misinformation. E-mail us to share tips or feedback at disinfodesk@globeandmail.com.Finned creatures with human features hauled aboard a trawler. Huge tentacled molluscs roaming the sea floor. A fisherman with a strange-looking white whale. None of the scenes in these videos are real, but they and similar ones have proliferated on platforms like Facebook, Instagram and TikTok where they can get tens of millions of views.