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Dec 31, 2024 · AFP 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.
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Dec 31, 2024 · Video shows plane crashed in Connecticut, not New Jersey drone. Image. Published on 20/12/2024
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AFP 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.
New year, old scam: Stimulus hoax circulates on Facebook
1 day ago · The government does not offer free money or grants to people for personal needs, according to USA Gov, the official web portal of the United States (archived here), which says these offers are often scams.. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), says several signs can help determine if a post is a scam, including: pretending to be from an organization you know, claiming there is a problem or ...
US politics - Fact Check
Mar 12, 2024 · Fake quote from Panama's president on canal row circulates online. Image. US politics
AI imagery passed off as genuine pictures of UAE plane crash
2 days ago · The post surfaced after a light aircraft crashed on December 29, 2024 off the coast of Ras Al Khaimah, one of the UAE's seven emirates, killing two people, the Emirati aviation authority said (archived link).. The aircraft was operated by the Jazirah Aviation Club, with the crash killing both the pilot and co-pilot, the General Civil Aviation Authority said in a statement.
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AFP’s fact-checkers seek to investigate dubious claims circulating online which are viral, impactful and potentially harmful to the public. The claims we verify surface in a variety of ways, including on social media platforms, blogs and websites, messaging apps and other forums in the public ...
Global safety data shows vaccines are safe, not 'more dangerous …
Nov 24, 2023 · Safety data gathered from global inoculation programmes show serious side effects from Covid-19 vaccines are rare, but social media posts are falsely claiming the jabs are "more dangerous" than the coronavirus that has actually killed millions. These posts cite a paper about the purported risks and benefits of booster jabs for healthy young adults but its findings have been disputed by other ...
Old video of Algerian flight malfunction falsely shared as …
4 days ago · After an Azerbaijan Airlines plane crashed in Kazakhstan in December, killing 38 people, a video surfaced across social media in multiple languages alongside the claim it showed the moments before the tragedy. The clip, which first circulated in news reports from September 2024 about an Air Algerie flight's technical malfunction, was also falsely linked to South Korea's deadliest aviation ...
Voter fraud disinformation rampant in US election's final sprint
Nov 6, 2024 · The so-called "Election Integrity Community" that Musk created to "share potential incidents of voter fraud or irregularities" spread multiple claims debunked by AFP, including that voting machines were flipping votes from Trump to Kamala Harris.Other posts falsely shared images of ballot boxes being fraudulently discarded in hurricane-hit North Carolina.