@AFP Digital Verification Editor covering Australia, New Zealand and Pacific Islands. Tweets are my own.
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'#Disinformation researchers warned that it could enable bad actors to misuse #GoogleEarth -- a key resource for fact-checking and verification -- to create realistic geospatial fakes.'
🖊️ by @billdmccarthy
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'For months after a fire tore through seven Hong Kong apartment towers last year, the complex was sealed off to residents. This spring, they were allowed to return.'
The Things They Left Behind, by @anjalitsui with photos by Lam Yik Fei
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Search continues for casualties after a #landslide at a #gold mine at Chinese-owned (Wanguo International Mining) Gold Ridge mine. A remote area, tough to report on this disaster but a hospital worker confirmed to @KirstyLNeedham some have passed away.
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A Jewish lawyer wounded in a shooting at Australia’s Bondi Beach told a royal commission that he discovered AI-generated images depicting him as a “crisis actor” were spreading online as he went into surgery. Many are still up despite being debunked u.afp.com/SKiK
ALT “The cumulative nature of it is overwhelming... it tries to completely erase my experience and my trauma." - Arsen Ostrovsky, Jewish community leader and Bondi Beach shooting survivor
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🇦🇺 Facebook pages managed from Vietnam are capitalising on Australian politics to promote AI-generated articles on sites designed for profit.
We tracked over a dozen pages promoting news alongside fabrications, with some posts getting thousands of shares u.afp.com/SEeR
ALT Two screenshots of Facebook posts sharing photos of men and women in formal attire, with red crosses over the captions
"If you read a book in 2025—just one book—you belong to an endangered species." This made me sad.
(Someone could probably publish a thesis about how a drop in reading has led to a drop in overall empathy.)
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A Sydney man received death threats after he was misidentified as the gunman responsible for the mass shooting at Bondi Beach. He told @denechen he is "terrified" to leave his home france24.com/en/live-news/20…
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Stellar reporting from @AFP's @Laura_R_Chung on Australia's fight to get kids off social media
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#BREAKING: Hong Kong has rejected a bill granting limited rights to same-sex couples whose unions are registered abroad.
The 89-member Legislative Council voted down the Registration of Same-sex Partnerships Bill, which authorities proposed in light of a 2023 top court ruling.
ALT Hong Kong pro-democracy and LGBTQ rights activist Jimmy Sham arrives at the Legislative Council Complex in Hong Kong on September 10, 2025. Hong Kong lawmakers are expected to vote September 10 on whether to grant limited rights to same-sex couples, as fears grow in the LGBTQ community that even this narrow equality bid could be sunk by conservative pro-Beijing voices. (Peter Parks / AFP)
Some insane scenes out of Nepal 🇳🇵where discontent over the government's barring of social media platforms culminated into widespread protests against corruption.
And now the PM has resigned.
👉 u.afp.com/Sdr9
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🇦🇺 We talked to archaeologists and Indigenous art experts in Australia who all said this image does not show a genuine Aboriginal rock painting -- the picture in fact bears signs it was made with AI u.afp.com/NotAboriginalArt
A great journalist but also just a really great human. It’s been nearly two decades since I saw him and I feel so sad about this
Remembering Tom Robbins, Journalist Who Crusaded for New Yorkers in Need
thecity.nyc/2025/05/28/remem…
I can’t recall anything specific, only that my encounters w/ Tom at the Voice were always warm. I’m left with a sense of his empathy. He was always kind to us, a tremendous human. Rare to be able to say that about a celebrated journalist, especially one who’s a NYC legend.
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Poetry and popular uprisings have long been intertwined in Myanmar. From anti-colonial roots to today's resistance, poets have always led a unique role. Why does poetry still matter? Join @AungNaingSoeAns & @joefree215 on Thurs April 24 to explore why! fccthai.com/events/495
Mandalay residents are searching through collapsed buildings for survivors. Myanmar, already in dire straits after years of civil war, is ill-equipped to cope with this disaster.
In this difficult situation, our Yangon team is doing great work:
u.afp.com/SiMB
Some harrowing pictures of the destruction and struggle for rescuers in Mandalay by @SaiAungMainAFP
In neighboring Thailand, a 30-storey skyscraper collapsed in the quake and rescuers are struggling to pluck out survivors. Many of the construction workers are actually from Myanmar.
Some amazing shots from the inimitable @TheLilyfish
AFP's Bangkok office during the quake whose epicentre was in Myanmar. Thankfully our teams in Thailand and Myanmar are safe.
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