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World Cup 2022: TikTok brings football fever to millions of fans (BBC News)

From Bukayo Saka's spelling school to team analysis and score predictions, our social feeds are showing us loads of content from the Qatar World Cup.

Those "fake" England fans I was able to speak to were people from India and Sri Lanka who live and work in Qatar. It's showing a big portion of football fans what the World Cup is like and I think it's extremely powerful," he tells BBC Newsbeat. This World Cup certainly hasn't been short of speculation and debate online. I identified and tracked down several of the people in those videos. "There was a point [in the group stage] where Japan and Costa Rica were going to knock Spain and Germany out. I'm the only person in my Brazil top but the fans started embracing me anyway.

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