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Web3 days ago · Recycled 'zombie' misinformation targets US voters. Published on 24/04/2024 at 21:09. Migrants, vaccines, pedophilia rings -- old conspiracy theories are resurfacing ahead of the US election despite being repeatedly debunked, in what researchers call "zombie" falsehoods that appear to resonate with polarized voters.
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WebApr 19, 2024 · Australia's Great Barrier Reef experienced the most widespread bleaching on record in the summer of 2023 to 2024, with skeptics dismissing the role of human-induced climate change in putting coral barriers under intense heat stress. But scientists say ocean warming is the main cause for repeated, intense bleaching over recent decades.
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WebAug 10, 2020 · QAnon sows panic with false child trafficking claims, experts warn. Published on 08/10/2020 at 17:41. A surge in child trafficking misinformation pushed by QAnon conspiracy theorists is stirring public panic, generating violence and interfering with official efforts to protect minors, experts warn.
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WebPublished on 17/04/2024 at 13:50. When the Canadian government collects personal data it is required to disclose how the information will be used and stored via Personal Information Banks (PIBs). Social media users are saying the process is new and nefarious, but such claims are misleading. PIBs have been in use for more than 40 years and are ...
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WebAFP Fact Check is a department within Agence France-Presse (AFP), a multi-lingual, multicultural news agency whose mission is to provide accurate, balanced and impartial coverage of news wherever and whenever it happens in the world on a continuous basis. As guaranteed by its founding statute, AFP speaks with an independent voice free from political, commercial or ideological influence. These ...
AFP Covid-19 verification hub | Fact Check
WebMay 6, 2020 · here. Click here to see our complete list of Covid-19 debunks. This is AFP's verification hub for tackling the damaging Covid-19 misinformation that is spreading as fast as the novel coronavirus. Updated daily, it contains …
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WebOpen sources. Our fact-checks are based on non-partisan, primary-source material gathered by our fact-check journalists, including material verified via AFP’s own archives and collaboration with the agency’s on-the-ground reporters around the world. We also talk to experts and quote them in our fact-checks, identifying who they work for ...
Posts falsely claim Kinder uses insects in chocolate | Fact Check
Web2 days ago · Screenshot of a Facebook post taken April 24, 2024. Similar posts appear elsewhere on Facebook, TikTok, X -- including in Spanish and French. They echo claims AFP has previously debunked about insects in Nestlé's KitKat chocolate. Misinformation surrounding the consumption of insects has become increasingly widespread as Western governments ...
Old video shows Angolan troops celebrating holiday in Siberia, not ...
Web22 hours ago · The Ghanaian flag has red, yellow and green horizontal bands with a black star in the centre. Using the video verification tool InVID-WeVerify, we conducted a reverse image search on keyframes from the footage.. This led us to several articles on both English and Russian-language news sites that carried the same video back in 2018 (here and here).. The articles explain that the video shows ...
Disaster videos from Lebanon, Chile, Japan falsely shared as Iran ...
Web1 day ago · A dramatic video compilation of explosions and panicked crowds fleeing the streets swirled in social media posts about Iran's unprecedented attack on Israel on April 13, 2024. However, the clips were in fact all filmed before Tehran's assault. The footage shows a blast in Lebanon, cars blackened by forest fires in Chile and people reacting to a gas explosion in Japan. Another clip in the ...
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