Sophie Nicholson @sophiehnic.bsky.social retweeted
I decided to use my lunch time to show you how easy it is to make a fake news story in 30 minutes with Veo3 (I didn't try to perfect it). First: the footage. A mayor comes with a crazy idea and people hate it: (1/10) #verification #ai
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📣Verification is crucial in the digital age and a free toolkit co-developed by AFP can help speed up the process.
We’re pleased to launch an open access course for journalists to demystify the Verification Plugin, also known as InVID-WeVerify, with the support of @GoogleNewsInit
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⚠️CDC WEBSITES DELETED—Multiple CDC websites and datasets related to HIV, LGBTQ people, youth health behaviors and more have been removed after the agency was directed to comply with an executive order from President Trump by 5pm deadline. Wildest is taking down even HIV pages!
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💬 First breakout session at #NISCPH on fighting climate misinformation!
@sohnic & @ivancouronne (AFP) talk about @afpfr ’s new climate reporting training.
@wildflyingpanda (@europeanforest) explains how disagreements in science can make climate reporting harder and shared tools to help.
@NabihahParkar shows how alternative stories and social media can fight misinformation during COP summits.
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Sophie Nicholson @sophiehnic.bsky.social retweeted
Today is #WorldMentalHealthDay. As digital investigators we're often not experiencing what we see online, in real life, but it can still affect many.
So to keep doing the important documentation and investigative work online, here's a few practical steps you can take.👇
Sophie Nicholson @sophiehnic.bsky.social retweeted
AFP photojournalist Christina Assi said she felt "incredible" support as she carried the Olympic Flame outside Paris Sunday, almost a year after being gravely wounded while reporting in Lebanon.
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The accidental publication of a VK Teams screenshot showing the methodology of Doppelgänger ad creators found by French researcher @P_Bouchaud and mentioned by @CraigSilverman in his excellent session on ad libraries at #GlobalFact11 @factchecknet
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Sophie Nicholson @sophiehnic.bsky.social retweeted
Update today of our verification plugin (@InVID_EU @WeVerify @veraai_eu) v0.81. With improvements to beta tools for fact-checkers to be presented today at #GlobalFact11 in Sarajevo. ⬇️
u.afp.com/plugin
Pleased to share a new course with practical exercises for journalists and fact checkers at #globalfact11 @factchecknet, as well as new master certificates for our open access training platform
📣AFP is celebrating the 2nd birthday of its digitalcourses.afp.com training platform open for journalists!
🎁We’re happy to offer a gift for our 20K+ users: a new module of digital investigation exercises, with the support of @GoogleNewsInit, at @factchecknet's #GlobalFact11.
“Facts are the only anchor in our shared reality,” says @mariaressa at the opening of #globalfact11 in Sarajevo in conversation with @philchet. “It is a battle for facts.” @Poynter
Sophie Nicholson @sophiehnic.bsky.social retweeted
And, also out today - 𝐭𝐡𝐞 official poster for the Paris Olympics👇
It's certainly a little busy 😀 but definitely cool ❤️🇫🇷
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🧵 An Agence France-Presse investigation into a strike in southern Lebanon that killed a Reuters journalist and wounded six others, including two from AFP, points to a tank round used only by the Israeli army in the region 1/8
➡️ u.afp.com/oct13investigation
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"He could get killed because of this lie,” the father of a boy falsely claimed to be a Palestinian “crisis actor” told @AFP.
My latest with @AnujChopra on the real-world harms of disinformation accusing civilians of faking their suffering in Gaza.
barrons.com/amp/news/he-coul…
Sophie Nicholson @sophiehnic.bsky.social retweeted
The information war running in parallel with the deadly conflict on the ground has seen conspiracy theorists accuse ordinary Palestinians and Israelis of being "crisis actors" –- feigning injuries and deaths to garner sympathy and demonise the other side u.afp.com/53Vc
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Sophie Nicholson @sophiehnic.bsky.social retweeted
With so much discussion about the use of language in the coverage of the Israel-Hamas war, I wrote this to explain @AFP 's policy over the use of the word terrorist.
#Gaza #Israel
afp.com/en/agency/press-rele…
Here’s AFP’s online course on tackling climate misinformation that I spoke about today at #NISLIS We now have 11 short online courses on the platform, in 4 languages digitalcourses.afp.com/cours… @AFPFactCheck @GoogleNewsInit @ejcnet
Sophie Nicholson @sophiehnic.bsky.social retweeted
.@AFP offers digital investigative techniques to all journalists, available in 4 languages digitalcourses.afp.com/
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"Companies are way ahead of the media in how they frame their climate communication." - Tacking Greenwashing and Climate Misinformation by @ivancouronne for @AFP #NISLIS
🏆 Well done to this year’s #AfricanFactCheckingAwards winners:
Working Journalist: Moussa Ngom @LesReporterSn & Laureline Savoye @lemonde_afrique
Professional Fact-Checker: James Okong'o & Mary Kulundu @AFPFactCheck
Student Journalist: Papa Bocar Mbow @CESTIDAKAR
Sophie Nicholson @sophiehnic.bsky.social retweeted
🤖 What happens when #journalism meets #AI? Discover how to use #ChatGPT and other generative #AI tools in your #newsroom with @JCourses new free online course led by @aimeetwoee and @srhm_ca
#JournalismCourses
bit.ly/chatgpt_eng
