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THREAD 🧵 Student protests against civil service job quotas in Bangladesh sparked nationwide violence that left more than 200 people dead
As chaos swept the country, AFP's fact checkers debunked some of the falsehoods spread online (1/7)
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India's election commission has rejected a rumour that Muslim voters in West Bengal are wearing prosthetic fingers to vote multiple times
Social media posts spreading the baseless claim share photos that were in fact taken in Japan more than a decade ago
u.afp.com/FakeFingers
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⚠️ Seen this dramatic footage in Facebook posts about Iran's attack on Israel?
The video compilation of explosions and panicked crowds actually shows disasters in Lebanon, Chile and Japan that all happened before Tehran's April 13 assault
u.afp.com/DisasterCompilatio…
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Cancer cases have surged in under-50s but Covid vaccines are not to blame
Articles and posts say new research on rising cancer diagnoses is proof of a 'vaccine disaster' but the study looked at global data in the three decades before the pandemic
u.afp.com/CovidVaccineCancer
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Taylor Swift fans dangling from a stadium roof? ❌🎤
This picture falsely shared on Facebook (left) was actually edited from a photo of fans of Mexican rapper Santa Fe Klan trying to get into his sold-out concert in 2022 (right)
u.afp.com/SwiftiesRoof
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🇬🇧👑 Old photos of the UK flag lowered to half-mast flooded social media this week, fuelling rumours about the health of Catherine, Princess of Wales
The pictures were actually taken in Westminster in 2017 and the British Consulate in Istanbul in 2022
u.afp.com/UnionFlagHalfMast
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🧵 As thousands of protesting Indian farmers rode towards New Delhi, a graphic video emerged in Facebook posts claiming it showed protesters crushing a policeman with a tractor
The footage shows a demonstrator killed in August at an unrelated rally (1/5) u.afp.com/OldPunjabVideo
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AFP is hiring a Burmese speaking journalist to write about misinformation
Based in Bangkok, you'll be a digital savvy reporter monitoring and fact-checking false news circulating online
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A sharp decline in air travel during the pandemic did not reduce CO2 levels, but that does not mean humans have little impact on emissions
The temporary drop in air travel was not enough to affect the long-term build-up of carbon pollution
u.afp.com/PandemicCO2
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🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨
We're hiring a freelance journalist to fact-check misinformation shared on TikTok in the Philippines
✅ Strong writing and digital verification skills
✅ Fluent Tagalog
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📢 #AFP is looking for a #DigitalVerification Journalist
📍 Location: Makati, Philippines
🗓 Starting date: July 31, 2023
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AFP is hiring in Australia!
🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨
🇦🇺 We're looking for a digital verification journalist to join our Sydney bureau
You'll cover mis/disinformation in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands as part of our global fact-checking network
u.afp.com/jobsEN
A photo can be taken out of context so easily online
An AFP journalist in Hyderabad visited the cemetery and confirmed the grave was located there, not in Pakistan
A string of news websites have falsely shared a photo as a grave in Pakistan locked to prevent necrophilia
The picture is from Hyderabad, India and a local mosque representative said the gate was installed to stop new remains being buried on the plot
u.afp.com/IndiaGrave
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First, he lost his child in Seoul's Halloween crowd crush. Then came a torrent of online abuse, upending his family's once-private life and making him an internet-wide figure of mockery ➡️
@AFP story by @shizzzm
u.afp.com/iBHC
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Philippine social media users face barrage of bogus medical posts.
To give their posts credibility, promoters of spurious treatments are using falsified news reports and manipulating videos created by doctors to fight misinformation
@AFPFactCheck reports: u.afp.com/i7pg
ALT Rheumatologist Geraldine Zamora has had her TikTok videos manipulated and used on Facebook to promote an unregistered product