Jake Soriano

Deputy Head of @AFPFactCheck in Asia Pacific

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🇮🇩 It is "scientifically impossible" for food or vaccines to alter people's sexual orientation, experts say, refuting anti-LGBTQ claims spreading in Indonesia. The posts reference a so-called "depopulation" conspiracy that we have repeatedly fact-checked https://t.co/n6L5XoZ2iu

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US and Israeli attacks on Iran this week have triggered retaliatory strikes across the Middle East, sparking the spread of misinformation around the world.

Here are some of the claims that our global team has debunked so far 🧵

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How anti-China disinformation shaped South Korea's year of crisis https://t.co/I755Ul4aar

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@AbdulhaqOmeri د شرایطو نمونې دلته دي https://t.co/N7792BZV0y

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@AbdulhaqOmeri سلام، زه د نړیوال خبري آژانس AFP څخه یم. بخښنه غواړم چې اوس اړیکه نیسم او هیله لرم چې تاسو خوندي یاست. آیا تاسو دا ویډیو اخیستې ده؟ که داسې وي، نو مهرباني وکړئ AFP ته اجازه ورکړئ چې دا خپلو پیرودونکو ته د تړل شوو شرایطو سره وویشي، د "زه موافق یم" په ځواب کې.

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Pakistan's recent HPV vaccination drive, which aimed to protect girls against cervical cancer, was marred by false claims the shot causes infertility.

Continuous monitoring of the vaccine since it was licensed in 2006 found no such side effect https://t.co/YU7w1jOs8M

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A series of earthquakes in the Philippines this month sparked a wave of posts touting a supposed safety protocol called "triangle of life", but experts say this is unproven and dangerous https://t.co/53H0iBP77x

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This old video of schoolgirls affected by tear gas has been falsely linked to a recent vaccination campaign in Pakistan https://t.co/DcUMOpTQeU

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🇳🇵 Protesters in Nepal ousted the prime minister and set parliament ablaze over the government's ban on social media and corruption allegations. But in neighbouring India, the violence is being misrepresented online as something else: a religious uprising https://t.co/0Sj9tcAlAr

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This fake airport VIP lounge document does not prove an ex-US diplomat was in Bangladesh to meet with a new political party, contrary to claims online https://t.co/YEhAw79WFO

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Norway's environment ministry told us claims about a "floating greenhouse" capable of growing crops while producing clean energy are untrue, and an image of the supposed eco-structure is AI-generated https://t.co/gkEBLAlJU1

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🇰🇷 Former South Korea prime minister Hwang Kyo-ahn claims a government plan to grant visa-free entry to Chinese tourists is a ploy to commit voter fraud ahead of next year's local elections.

This is false -- short-term visitors are ineligible to vote https://t.co/Io7Djs93sO

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Posts claiming Singapore has built an offshore detention centre falsely share a UK barge picture and an AI-generated image https://t.co/ycW0FJwCWi

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Grok, is that Gaza?

This photo by AFP's Omar al-Qattaa shows a skeletal girl in Gaza on August 2, 2025. But Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot says the image was taken in Yemen nearly seven years ago

https://t.co/hHeKx34qpb

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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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Japan sets new record high temperature of 41.8C

https://t.co/ahpK7KV3Rs

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#BREAKING Hong Kong records highest daily rainfall in August since 1884, says Observatory

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Video grab from a drone released by the Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences on July 30, 2025, shows the tsunami-hit Severo-Kurilsk on Paramushir island of Russia's northern Kuril islands.

The mayor of the district said Wednesday that everyone had evacuated to safety

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@ashlovetea Hi, I hope you're doing ok. I'm from global news agency AFP. Did you take this video? If you took it, please can you give @AFP authorisation to distribute it to clients, per the terms attached, by replying "I agree"? Templates of the terms are here https://t.co/N7792BZV0y

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@karenhorvot Hi Karen, I hope you're safe and doing ok. I'm from global news agency AFP. I'd please like to check if you took this video? If you took it, please can you give @AFP authorisation to distribute it to clients, per the terms attached, by replying "I agree"? https://t.co/8aFnO48fIb