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5 days ago · 2017 wildfire video falsely shared as scenes from 2025 Los Angeles blaze
California environmental policies misleadingly blamed for LA fires
4 days ago · As raging fires battered Los Angeles County in early 2025, critics put a spotlight on the US state of California's environmental policies, seeking to blame water conservation programs to help endangered fish or truck emission regulations. But experts say the combination of extreme weather conditions, worsened by warming and strong winds, and infrastructure issues are the main factors for the ...
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5 days ago · Fake quote from Panama's president on canal row circulates online. US politics. Published on 02/01/2025
Switzerland footage misrepresented in false posts about …
2 days ago · As deadly wildfires raged through Los Angeles, California in January 2025, social media users claimed a video showed foreigners or immigrants in the city dancing to celebrate the blazes outside their window. But the footage is unrelated; it was captured the previous month in Switzerland, as a bathhouse on a lake in the town of Rorschach burned down.
Misquoted Lancet report sparks misinformation on Covid vaccines, …
6 days ago · Rampant misinformation linking autism to vaccination has circulated for decades. The latest iteration spreading online falsely shared a scientific paper as evidence Covid-19 jabs cause the lifelong condition. However, the report published in The Lancet medical journal did not mention vaccines and instead explored the prevalence and health burden of autism.
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Oct 10, 2024 · Study did not find millions of children with post-vaccine heart defects
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 ...
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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 ...