Senior digital investigation journalist covering disinformation @AFP @AFPFactCheck • Formerly @PolitiFact • @DukeU alum • “The internet folks” - Stephen Colbert
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“Look, here's burial sites all over the place. These are all white farmers that are being buried,” Donald Trump said during today’s meeting with South Africa’s president.
The image he was holding up, however, is from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Not funny: US comedians say 'sexualized' AI personas steal jokes.
AI personas on social media are ripping off jokes comedians have spent years refining, adding to a growing chorus of critics who say artificial intelligence is enabling the theft of their intellectual labor
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My @AFPFactCheck team is fact-checking election misinformation related to yesterday's US midterms.
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Democrat Abdul El-Sayed won Michigan's US Senate race over former Republican lawmaker Mike Rogers, US networks say
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BREAKING Democrat Troy Jackson unseated longtime Republican incumbent Senator Susan Collins in Maine -- yet another flip for the Democrats, media projections show
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BREAKING Kansas sends Democrat to US Senate for first time since 1932.
Democrats have picked up another US Senate seat when Adam Hamilton defeated Republican incumbent Roger Marshall in the central state of Kansas, media projections show
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BREAKING Democrats flip US Senate, win full control of Congress: networks project
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BREAKING Democrat Gina Hinojosa has unseated incumbent Texas Governor Greg Abbott, media projections show, in a stunning triumph for her party in the Lone Star State
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BREAKING Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms, a former mayor of Atlanta, has been elected governor of the state of Georgia, becoming the first Black woman elected to that office in the United States, media projections show.
CNN and NBC News called the race in her favor
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Democrats win US House in growing midterms wave against Trump.
CNN and CNBC project a Democratic House majority, giving the opposition the power to block Trump's legislative agenda and launch sweeping investigations
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BREAKING Democrat James Talarico has won the US Senate race in Texas, flipping yet another seat for his party in a huge blow to Republicans, NBC News and CBS News projections show
Right-wing accounts are demanding the arrest of this Minnesota poll worker who they claim wore a shirt today mocking Charlie Kirk.
The photo was taken on Halloween, according to the city, and the woman is a Republican who said she did not intend to convey any political message.
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A Republican women's group is behind a fake Texas transgender student union that sent text messages and brochures to as many as three million voters this month.
The Republican Women’s Caucus Fund and someone named John Braun were identified as those responsible for the scheme that riled up voters just as early voting began, according to legal filings made public late Thursday. The identities were ordered to be revealed by a Travis County judge. bit.ly/48q1oVa
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Tina Peters, the election denier once imprisoned over a breach of her Colorado county's voting system, says she met with Trump in October and asserted that he has the power to send federal law enforcement to investigate how votes are counted. ms.now/news/tina-peters-trum…
Police denied that a stabbing took place outside Trump's Ohio rally after social media users claimed a liberal agitator jumped a Trump supporter.
The reality: two Trump supporters started fighting, and an intervening officer's pocketknife accidentally clipped onto one's shirt.
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Edgar Maddison Welch, the Pizzagate shooter died last year. It’s been 10 years since the shooting and he’s felt to me like one of the first in a string of online conspiracy meets real world violence events. I dug into his very American tragedy. Hope you’ll read it. theatlantic.com/technology/2…
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Yesterday a video appeared on X purporting to be from @WABI_TV5. It suggested that @TroyJackson207 was violently threatening his campaign staff.
Once again we believe this to be a Russian Storm-1516 fake.
A few details . . .
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No, holes in some California ballot return envelopes are not used to discard Republican votes.
They tell visually-impaired voters where to sign and help poll workers ensure no ballots are missed.
Voters can fold their ballots many ways to prevent their selections from showing.
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