AFP Fact Check 🔎 @AFPFactCheck
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An old newspaper article has been misrepresented to falsely suggest an ex-Australian state leader was due in court on charges of 'concealing treason' -- the report is from 2021, and the case has since been thrown out factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.73…
This video apparently depicting US President Donald Trump faulting India for Pakistan's floods is edited u.afp.com/TrumpEditedVid…
Experts have dismissed the idea that cloud formations are indicative of future earthquakes u.afp.com/CloudEarthquake
Police said two local teenagers were arrested following an April fire at a church in the Welsh town of Port Talbot, and they dismissed recirculating online rumors blaming Pakistani migrants for the blaze. Read more: u.afp.com/WelshFire
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. repeats vaccine misinformation in Congressional testimony u.afp.com/SdWR
🚕 Unrest in South Africa's informal public transport sector has people fearing for their lives, but posts claiming police rescued a pregnant woman from violent taxi drivers are misleading. The hoax claim is circulating with images and video from 2023. u.afp.com/Sddt
#EnglishPremierLeague club captains agreed they will start wearing armbands with only the league's logo after a partnership with a LGBTQ charity ended, not because the league had banned rainbow-coloured armbands as suggested on social media u.afp.com/RainbowArmbands
As Hindus mark the #GaneshChaturthi festival, this clip has circulated online with a false claim it showed the world's largest clay idol -- it is in fact made with AI u.afp.com/AIIdolClip
A video purports to show Tim Walz dancing on an escalator while wearing an explicit anti-Donald Trump T-shirt. But the clip is altered, with the Minnesota governor's face superimposed on the body of a TikTok creator. u.afp.com/NotTimWalzDanc…
This clip of a flooded temple was filmed in Thailand, not Cambodia as social media posts claim u.afp.com/SukhothaiFlood
Nigeria's tax system works on a sliding scale. Recent changes mean annual incomes below 800,000 naira (about $522) are tax-exempt, but claims that anything above this amount is automatically taxed at 20 percent are false. Read more u.afp.com/SdNW
Supporters of Sri Lanka's ex-president, who was arrested on charges of misusing public funds, rallied in Colombo during his bail hearing in late August. However, images shared that day are from protests that predate his arrest u.afp.com/ColomboProtest
This video does not show immigrants marching in Melbourne, Australia 🇦🇺 In fact, it is an annual religious procession u.afp.com/NotImmigrantPr…
🇰🇷 An image from Lee Jae Myung's Oval Office meeting with Donald Trump has been altered to denigrate the new South Korean president's administration. The original does not show his chief of staff holding a selfie stick u.afp.com/SdGE
An old photo was misrepresented as showing a car accident involving Rudy Giuliani. Reverse image search reveals the picture is from a 2024 crash in California. u.afp.com/NotGuilianiCra…
Video of US President Donald Trump giving Kenya's former deputy leader Rigathi Gachagua an Oval Office dressing down is a mash-up of old, unrelated clips combined with AI-generated audio u.afp.com/SdS6
🦟 Amid a Chikungunya outbreak in South China & HK, misinformation is spreading fast. Prof. Hein Min Tun @TheTunLab debunks the viral myth with @AFPFactCheck : ants don’t repel mosquitoes and can even harm your skin. Stick to proven methods. 🛡️ 🔗 sphpc.cuhk.edu.hk/in-the-news
An image shared on social media that purportedly shows US President Donald Trump reacting angrily to news of impeached former South Korean leader Yoon Suk Yeol's detention is doctored u.afp.com/AlteredTrumpLe…
Strikingly lifelike videos featuring bikini-clad women conducting street interviews and eliciting lewd comments can be found across social media -- but they are entirely fake, generated by AI tools increasingly used to spread sexist content. Read more: u.afp.com/SdoW
As China prepares a military parade marking 80 years since the end of World War II, social media users have claimed this picture shows Yukio Hatoyama at a memorial in Nanjing. It actually shows the ex-Japanese PM in Seoul u.afp.com/HatoyamaInSeoul
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