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🇵🇭 Posts shared an image of Philippine soldiers showing their support for Senator Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa, a wanted former police chief who implemented the country's drug war.
We found the image is AI-generated, and the 10th Infantry Division disowned it u.afp.com/SFi6
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A graphic mimicking a Sri Lankan media report falsely claimed First Lady Mallika Dissanayake had been injured and hospitalised. We found no evidence of an accident and confirmed the image shows another politician.u.afp.com/SF3K
🇨🇦 "There is no information to suggest the fire was caused by fireworks used during Diwali celebrations," said Jeff Dillon, media relations officer for the Halton Regional Police Service -- responsible for Milton municipality u.afp.com/SFJ8
As thousands of garment workers protested in Dhaka for higher pay, social media users shared a video falsely claiming to show the rallies. But we found it was filmed in India’s Manipur state during a march to demand more support for indigenous communities.
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A top Indian border police official last month reported “face-offs” between Indian and Chinese forces at the Himalayan frontier, but this clip is unrelated. We geolocated it to a village in Nepal, with a local official saying it shows a religious festival. u.afp.com/Syrp
🇺🇸🗳️ After Democrats secured victories in US midterm elections, posts shared an AI graphic purporting to show Congresswoman Ilhan Omar winning with 99 percent of the vote
While Omar did win re-election, we found the margin of victory was exaggerated u.afp.com/SyFu
Virginians established the right to reproductive autonomy in the state constitution while still allowing restrictions on third-trimester abortions for viable pregnancies that do not threaten the health of the person carrying the fetus u.afp.com/SyjE
After a Singapore-registered vessel sank in the Strait of Hormuz, social media posts shared a video falsely claiming to show cargo from the ship washing ashore. But we found the footage was AI-generated and unrelated to the incident.
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Virginia election website error sparks unfounded fraud claims u.afp.com/Syja
ALT "During the initial Election Night reporting, the turnout section briefly reflected the total number of votes cast, rather than the total number of ballots," Tina Reitzel, the Director of Elections for the City of Williamsburg
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As tensions escalated following a Houthi attack on Saudi Arabia's Dammam airport, an old video resurfaced online falsely claiming to show the strike. AFP found the footage predates the incident by two years.
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🇮🇳 Tens of thousands of people gathered in New Delhi last week to demand the resignation of India's election commission chief, but this image does not show an even bigger turnout -- we found it was fabricated using OpenAI tools u.afp.com/SyHJ
ALT Screenshot of a Facebook post sharing an aerial photo of a crowd with a stage in the background
Pro-government social media accounts claimed Greenpeace Indonesia’s yellow banners were inspired by recent protests in France and implied the group signalled for similar unrest. But we found the same black-and-yellow branding had been used for decades.
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The 2026 midterm elections dramatically transformed the balance of power in Washington, but this widely shared map purporting to show the results is an AI-generated hallucination. It incorrectly ascribes 64 Senate seats to the Democrats u.afp.com/SyKz
ALT Screenshot of an AI-generated map claiming Democrats won 64 seats in the Senate
🇺🇸🗳️ This video is from 2020 -- US President Donald Trump was not on any ballot in 2026 -- and it was created by a TikTok user who said he was joking at the time u.afp.com/SyKD
🇳🇬 WHO's "no Ebola cases" statement, made after Nigeria's index patient was evacuated to Switzerland, was misreported as "Ebola-free." The outbreak will only be declared over after 42 days without new cases. If none emerge, that date will be December 7.
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Democrats rejoiced after Texas voters dealt Republicans a historic blow in the US midterms, but footage claimed to show an Australian celebration is unrelated.
The video was filmed after Australia's soccer team scored against Denmark in the 2022 World Cup u.afp.com/SyR7
Ken Paxton made a brief concession speech before midnight in Texas on November 3, congratulating James Talarico on his victory in their race for US Senate. Ignore the fake NBC News NOW graphic that is being used to claim otherwise u.afp.com/SyaH
The board overseeing illuminations of Niagara Falls prohibits partisan political displays and on the night of November 3 teal lights were shining for Alzheimer's Awareness Month u.afp.com/SyaD
Attacks on Orthodox Christians in Ethiopia's Oromia region in October killed dozens. However, a video of a burning church created with AI was falsely depicted online as a target of the armed groups responsible for the killings u.afp.com/SyE2
After Israel’s election last month, a video claiming to show Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu being attacked in Tel Aviv was falsely shared online.
We found it depicts a 2013 attack on Ahmed Dogan, then-leader of Bulgaria's ethnic Turkish party u.afp.com/SybP
