THREAD π§΅ 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
https://t.co/CcHC6ndrzF
β οΈ 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
https://t.co/v0rA6dOIgA
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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
https://t.co/2WIkTEFTwK
@doyle0213 Hi Andrew, I'm a journalist at AFP news agency. Sorry to bother you and hope you're OK. I'd like to ask you about these photos. Please could you follow me so I can DM you? Many thanks, Charlotte
Taylor Swift fans dangling from a stadium roof? βπ€
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)
https://t.co/NiViptPw98
π¬π§π 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
https://t.co/NhEw4Cfm5o
π§΅ 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) https://t.co/kAyYesFhZL
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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
https://t.co/xcBU1RJ6kN
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