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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. repeats vaccine misinformation in Congressional testimony. Read more: https://u.afp.com/SdWR
05/09/2025

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. repeats vaccine misinformation in Congressional testimony. Read more: https://u.afp.com/SdWR

🚕 Unrest in South Africa's informal public transport sector has people fearing for their lives, but posts claiming polic...
05/09/2025

🚕 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.
https://u.afp.com/Sddt

🇰🇷 This photo of South Korean National Assembly Speaker Woo Won-shik at a massive military parade in China has sparked b...
05/09/2025

🇰🇷 This photo of South Korean National Assembly Speaker Woo Won-shik at a massive military parade in China has sparked baseless online rumours that he was relegated to the "farthest back seat" during the ceremony. But the image has been cropped to give the misleading impression that Woo was isolated among security staff.

Read more: https://u.afp.com/SdQX

🇱🇰 Supporters of Sri Lanka's ex-president, who was arrested on charges of misusing public funds, rallied in Colombo duri...
05/09/2025

🇱🇰 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, several images shared online that day are from protests that predate his arrest.

Read more: https://u.afp.com/ColomboProtest

A video purports to show former Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz dancing and singing on an escalator while ...
04/09/2025

A video purports to show former Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz dancing and singing 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. Read more: https://u.afp.com/NotTimWalzDancing

A video of an inundated temple has surfaced in posts that falsely claim it was shot in Cambodia. We have geolocated it t...
04/09/2025

A video of an inundated temple has surfaced in posts that falsely claim it was shot in Cambodia. We have geolocated it to Thailand's Sukhothai province.
Read more: 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 t...
04/09/2025

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 https://u.afp.com/SdNW

🇦🇺 Ahead of planned anti-immigration marches across Australia, this video has surfaced in posts falsely claiming it show...
04/09/2025

🇦🇺 Ahead of planned anti-immigration marches across Australia, this video has surfaced in posts falsely claiming it shows migrants chanting "we are awaiting orders". In fact, it shows the peaceful commemoration of a Muslim holy day in Melbourne.

Read more: https://u.afp.com/NotImmigrantProcession

🇰🇷 An image from Lee Jae Myung's Oval Office meeting with Donald Trump has been altered to denigrate the new South Korea...
04/09/2025

🇰🇷 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.

Read more: https://u.afp.com/SdGE

An old photo was misrepresented as showing a car accident involving Rudy Giuliani. Reverse image search reveals the pict...
03/09/2025

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.

Read more: https://u.afp.com/NotGuilianiCrash

Video of US President Donald Trump giving Kenya's former deputy leader Rigathi Gachagua an Oval Office dressing down is ...
03/09/2025

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
https://u.afp.com/SdS6

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