Dene-Hern Chen

@AFP Digital Verification Editor covering Australia, New Zealand and Pacific Islands. Tweets are my own.

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🇦🇺 Facebook pages managed from Vietnam are capitalising on Australian politics to promote AI-generated articles on sites designed for profit.

We tracked over a dozen pages promoting news alongside fabrications, with some posts getting thousands of shares https://t.co/OecpOWQORI

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@WinnieHates @heidimur Hi @WinnieHates I'm a fact-check journalist with AFP news agency. Just wondering if you made this image using the Grok AI assistant? Thank you!

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@glensarsero @MetService Hi @glensarsero I'm a journalist with AFP, the international news agency. Were you there at Mount Maunganui, and did you take these photos and video yourself? If so, I hope you're ok -- would it be possible for you to send me a dm? Thank you very much.

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"If you read a book in 2025—just one book—you belong to an endangered species." This made me sad.

(Someone could probably publish a thesis about how a drop in reading has led to a drop in overall empathy.)

https://t.co/6R6fvUTtxM

[Daniel Funke @dpfunke]

A Sydney man received death threats after he was misidentified as the gunman responsible for the mass shooting at Bondi Beach. He told @denechen he is "terrified" to leave his home https://t.co/ZxMBW824Z7

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@DataAnalyst1309 Hi @DataAnalyst1309 Ajay, is this your video? I'm with AFP news agency -- if you filmed this video, could we use it? I've followed you so we can communicate via dm.

[Oliver Hotham @OliverHotham]

Stellar reporting from @AFP's @Laura_R_Chung on Australia's fight to get kids off social media

https://t.co/S9Anx6d1LY

[Holmes Chan @holmeschan_]

#BREAKING: Hong Kong has rejected a bill granting limited rights to same-sex couples whose unions are registered abroad.

The 89-member Legislative Council voted down the Registration of Same-sex Partnerships Bill, which authorities proposed in light of a 2023 top court ruling.

[Dene-Hern Chen @denechen]

Some insane scenes out of Nepal 🇳🇵where discontent over the government's barring of social media platforms culminated into widespread protests against corruption.

And now the PM has resigned.

👉 https://t.co/o0EvOLzsVp

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🇦🇺 We talked to archaeologists and Indigenous art experts in Australia who all said this image does not show a genuine Aboriginal rock painting -- the picture in fact bears signs it was made with AI https://t.co/yeGenpOe0t

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A quote from the obit: “He’s the last of the long line of those kind of hard-hitting muckraking journalists…Several were grumpy old men. As the years went on, he was the opposite of a grumpy old man. He was incredibly kind. He had a sense of humor.” Yea, that’s what I remember.

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A great journalist but also just a really great human. It’s been nearly two decades since I saw him and I feel so sad about this

Remembering Tom Robbins, Journalist Who Crusaded for New Yorkers in Need

https://t.co/QJaIOP2yZe

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I can’t recall anything specific, only that my encounters w/ Tom at the Voice were always warm. I’m left with a sense of his empathy. He was always kind to us, a tremendous human. Rare to be able to say that about a celebrated journalist, especially one who’s a NYC legend.

[FCCThai @FCCThai]

Poetry and popular uprisings have long been intertwined in Myanmar. From anti-colonial roots to today's resistance, poets have always led a unique role. Why does poetry still matter? Join @AungNaingSoeAns & @joefree215 on Thurs April 24 to explore why! https://t.co/C8S5LkBSDq

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In neighboring Thailand, a 30-storey skyscraper collapsed in the quake and rescuers are struggling to pluck out survivors. Many of the construction workers are actually from Myanmar.

Some amazing shots from the inimitable @TheLilyfish

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Mandalay residents are searching through collapsed buildings for survivors. Myanmar, already in dire straits after years of civil war, is ill-equipped to cope with this disaster.

In this difficult situation, our Yangon team is doing great work:
https://t.co/ijl7pvlSWA

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Some harrowing pictures of the destruction and struggle for rescuers in Mandalay by @SaiAungMainAFP

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AFP's Bangkok office during the quake whose epicentre was in Myanmar. Thankfully our teams in Thailand and Myanmar are safe.

https://t.co/fktVnzGMJA

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