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Jan 16, 2025 · AFP Fact Check is a department within Agence France-Presse (AFP), a multi-lingual, multicultural news agency whose mission is to provide accurate, balanced and impartial coverage of news wherever and whenever it happens in the world on a continuous basis.
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S. Korean health authorities reject baseless 'Omicron surge' warning
1 day ago · Similar claims ricocheted across platforms such as Facebook, X, Instagram, Naver Blog and Naver Cafe as South Korea faced a spike in flu cases.. The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said on January 10 that suspected flu cases reached 99.8 per 1,000 outpatients across 300 KDCA-run clinics earlier that month -- …
False posts about HMPV and Covid 'cross-mutation' spark fear …
4 days ago · Reports of a flu-like virus called HMPV in China have sparked online misinformation, including posts with tens of thousands of shares that falsely claimed HMPV and Covid-19 had "cross-mutated" into a more severe disease. The viruses are from different families and are impossible to merge, multiple virologists told AFP. The World Health Organization said in January 2025 that China's reported ...
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Misquoted Lancet report sparks misinformation on Covid vaccines, …
5 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.
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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Posts misrepresent findings of world's largest Covid vaccine safety ...
The February 2024 publication of the largest peer-reviewed study of Covid-19 vaccine safety to date has inspired misleading social media claims that its findings show the jabs are unsafe. Study authors and independent experts say the research confirms that adverse reactions to vaccination are rare and pose far fewer risks than Covid-19 infection.