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14/11/2025

Of late, many people have ditched search engines to instead ask a chatbot for answers to their questions. But results will be different depending on the method you use. And what if your question is a loaded one, concerning a major conflict, legal question or historical event? In this video we look in detail at differences between results from Google and ChatGPT.

🇹🇿 Social media posts claimed that an image showed Tanzania's president fleeing the country by helicopter after her re-...
14/11/2025

🇹🇿 Social media posts claimed that an image showed Tanzania's president fleeing the country by helicopter after her re-election. However, this is false; it actually showed a regional commissioner attending an elephant relocation operation two months earlier.

Read more: u.afp.com/TZ

South Korea's main opposition has accused President Lee Jae Myung's long-time aide of overstepping her authority and tar...
13/11/2025

South Korea's main opposition has accused President Lee Jae Myung's long-time aide of overstepping her authority and targeted her with conspiracy theories.

However, an image of the two apparently dressed in wedding clothes is a spoof of the poster for the 2005 film, "You Are My Sunshine"
Read more: u.afp.com/LeeKimSpoof

These pictures do not show the damage from a brawl between supporters from rival political parties in Bangladesh -- one ...
13/11/2025

These pictures do not show the damage from a brawl between supporters from rival political parties in Bangladesh -- one of the photos is from Afghanistan, while the rest show the aftermath of a gas explosion at a mosque

Read more: u.afp.com/NotBangladeshMosqueFight

As India reeled from a deadly explosion in the heart of the capital Delhi early this week, false posts shared pictures s...
12/11/2025

As India reeled from a deadly explosion in the heart of the capital Delhi early this week, false posts shared pictures supposedly depicting the incident.

We found one image shows a burning vehicle in April, while another picture depicts a car bomb in Lebanon more than a decade ago.

Read more: u.afp.com/DelhiBlast

A video of former Ethiopian army chief Samora Yunus giving an interview 13 years ago has been altered to give the false ...
10/11/2025

A video of former Ethiopian army chief Samora Yunus giving an interview 13 years ago has been altered to give the false impression that he spoke in favour of a takeover of Eritrea's Assab port in the event of a new war https://u.afp.com/Sniy

Baseless claims about typhoid vaccines have targeted an inoculation campaign in Bangladesh, with a UNICEF health manager...
09/11/2025

Baseless claims about typhoid vaccines have targeted an inoculation campaign in Bangladesh, with a UNICEF health manager telling AFP online disinformation has slowed down the nationwide drive. Read more: u.afp.com/TyphoidVaccineClaim

These images of an elderly couple waiting to be rescued from muddy floodwaters were taken in Mexico, contrary to posts c...
08/11/2025

These images of an elderly couple waiting to be rescued from muddy floodwaters were taken in Mexico, contrary to posts claiming they showed a Philippine couple after Typhoon Kalmaegi flooded swathes of the archipelago. Read more: u.afp.com/MexicoFloodClip

Half a century after the death of Francisco Franco, disinformation on social media has credited the Spanish dictator wit...
08/11/2025

Half a century after the death of Francisco Franco, disinformation on social media has credited the Spanish dictator with social achievements that present his iron-fisted rule in a nostalgic light.

Experts warn that misleading comparisons and inaccuracies in viral messages can beguile citizens with minimal understanding of the 1939-1975 period.

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

Video of a person climbing a streetlamp and ripping down American and United Nations flags resurfaced with claims it sho...
06/11/2025

Video of a person climbing a streetlamp and ripping down American and United Nations flags resurfaced with claims it shows a celebration for Zohran Mamdani's win in the New York City mayoral election.

But as we previously fact-checked, the clip shows an unrelated incident that took place at a pro-Palestinian protest in November 2023. Read more: https://u.afp.com/SeC2

An image of a woman clashing with police is being shared with claims that it shows a Mozambican hair salon owner being a...
06/11/2025

An image of a woman clashing with police is being shared with claims that it shows a Mozambican hair salon owner being arrested in Johannesburg. However, the image was taken six years ago in Cape Town during a sit-in by refugees https://u.afp.com/Se9A

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