AFP Fact Check 🔎 · Oct 19, 2026 · 5:48 PM UTC

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🌀 Hurricane season: be careful of AI slop weather maps on social media

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AFP Fact Check 🔎 · Oct 19, 2026 · 5:17 PM UTC

🇳🇬 Nigeria’s President Tinubu did not award ally Gilbert Chagoury a $7 billion port deal. Tinubu witnessed the signing of a non-binding MoU between DP World and Ogun State, not a final concession. DP World says Chagoury is not a shareholder. Read more: u.afp.com/TinubuDeal

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AFP Fact Check 🔎 · Oct 18, 2026 · 9:40 PM UTC

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US influence, AI and mistrust cloud Alberta independence vote u.afp.com/SChF

ALT A red truck flying the Alberta flag circles a separatist event in Medicine Hat, southwestern Alberta

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AFP Fact Check 🔎 · Oct 16, 2026 · 4:01 PM UTC

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🇪🇹 Old clips of Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed are being misrepresented as recent visits to Tigray amid the latest conflict. One was filmed in Amhara in 2021, the other at a cultural event in Addis Ababa in 2019. Read more: u.afp.com/AbiyMekelle

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AFP Fact Check 🔎 · Oct 14, 2026 · 9:02 PM UTC

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🗳️ Recycled misleading claims stoke election concerns ahead of Alberta referendum u.afp.com/SCdC

ALT Separatists waves the Alberta flag by the roadside during an event advocating for Alberta's separation from Canada in Dunmore

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AFP Fact Check 🔎 · Oct 12, 2026 · 1:35 PM UTC

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A newspaper front page from 2006 is circulating in Nigeria, featuring what appears to be a report on presidential candidate Peter Obi revealing how he was "cured of madness". However, the original was altered by incorporating Obi's name and image u.afp.com/SCN7

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AFP Fact Check 🔎 · Oct 9, 2026 · 4:37 PM UTC

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Meteorologist retracts AI-hallucinated map of Hurricane Isaias u.afp.com/SCiv

ALT Accurate storm projections? FALSE

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AFP Fact Check 🔎 · Oct 9, 2026 · 3:14 PM UTC

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🇪🇹 Amid the renewed conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region, images shared online claiming to show Ethiopian soldiers on the streets of the regional capital Mekelle are AI-generated. Read more: u.afp.com/Mekelle

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AFP Fact Check 🔎 · Oct 9, 2026 · 1:53 PM UTC

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Activists marched through Nairobi in September demanding the release of Ugandan opposition figure Kizza Besigye. But videos and a photo shared as scenes from the march are from old, unrelated protests in Kenya. Read more: u.afp.com/BesigyeMarch

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AFP Fact Check 🔎 · Oct 8, 2026 · 9:21 PM UTC

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Russia has not confirmed if a woman employed at a plague research institute died from the disease. But on social media, influencers are pushing the necessity of purchasing a $300 kit claimed to help people avoid emergency room visits u.afp.com/SC3D

A security person wearing a face mask looks out from the door of an infectious diseases hospital in the town of Shelekhov, where an employee of the Irkutsk Antiplague Research Institute had died

ALT A security person wearing a face mask looks out from the door of an infectious diseases hospital in the town of Shelekhov, where an employee of the Irkutsk Antiplague Research Institute had died

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AFP Fact Check 🔎 · Oct 4, 2026 · 5:30 PM UTC

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Danish researcher's guilty plea does not invalidate research on MMR vaccine safety u.afp.com/S9uF

ALT A vial of the Measles, Mumps, and Rubella (MMR) vaccination

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