AFP Fact Check

02/12/2025

Clips online claim to show migrants sleeping on the floor of an US Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility. However, experts identified visual inconsistencies revealing that the videos were likely created using artificial intelligence.

Read more: https://u.afp.com/ShHQ

02/12/2025

This video purportedly showing South Korean President Lee Jae Myung being “shunned” at the G20 summit was misleadingly edited. Longer video of the event shows several heads of state approaching Lee to exchange greetings. Read more: u.afp.com/LeeG20Video

02/12/2025

This video does not show a genuine police briefing on a plot of further unrest in the Bangladeshi capital -- it was made with AI

Read more: u.afp.com/AIPolicePressBrief

02/12/2025

A 5.5-magnitude quake caused panic across Bangladesh and sparked a flurry of misinformation online. Users shared old photos from Nepal, Haiti and Myanmar, falsely linking it to the disaster last month.

Read more: u.afp.com/NotDhakaQuakeImages

02/12/2025

Hong Kong's firefighters were lauded for their heroic efforts to extinguish the city's deadliest fire in decades. But this bodycam clip was filmed in Chile, not during the deadly inferno last week, as false online posts claim.

Read more: u.afp.com/NotHKFire

01/12/2025

🤖 Audios, images, videos, entire websites and even news anchors generated by AI... How to navigate this new information ecosystem?

🎓 Find out in our open-access online course. Enrol now ➡️️https://u.afp.com/AIdetection

29/11/2025

🇬🇧 Plans for a new nationwide UK digital ID are sparking widespread public concern, but some critics are fuelling fears with unproven claims that it will be used to boost government control over people's lives. Read more: https://u.afp.com/UKDigitalIDFears

28/11/2025

🇹🇿 🇺🇬 After CNN published an investigation into post-election violence in Tanzania, a video emerged appearing to show Uganda's leader warning CNN against doing similar reporting in his country. But the video was doctored using AI to replace his voice.

Read more: u.afp.com/Museveni

28/11/2025

Can AI help you with your journalistic investigations? Yes. Can it fool you? Yes!

Learn how to use it judiciously and ethically with AFP's online course.

🎓 Sign up and get your certificate in just 1 hour! ➡️️https://u.afp.com/AIdetection

27/11/2025

🇳🇬 A video widely shared on social media claims to show Donald Trump reprimanding Nigerian leader Bola Tinubu. But this if false; the video contains visual inconsistencies that point to the use of artificial intelligence tools.

Read more: u.afp.com/Tinubu

27/11/2025

This months-old video shows a protest during a deadly uprising in Nepal, contrary to posts claiming it shows huge crowds that attended an anti-corruption rally in the Philippine capital Manila. Read more: u.afp.com/NotManilaRally

26/11/2025

Canadian and US social media users are claiming a video shows a man in traditional regalia dancing at a government assembly in British Columbia following a landmark court case in the Canadian province concerning Indigenous land rights.

This is false; the footage comes from the US state of California.

Canadian and US social media users are claiming a video shows a man in traditional regalia dancing at a government assembly in British Columbia following a landmark court case in the Canadian province concerning Indigenous land rights. This is false; the footage comes from the US state of California...