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🇵🇭 Parts of the Philippines were flooded when Tropical Storm Wipha skirted the archipelago in July 2025, but videos shared online that purportedly show its impact are months old u.afp.com/OldFloodingVid…

🏦💵A video purporting to show Jerome Powell resigning in a expletive-laden speech is fake. The clip spreading online is altered, with AI-generated audio layered over unrelated footage of the Federal Reserve chair from a 2023 press conference. u.afp.com/SgWs

🇨🇦 A sign requesting people restrain their dogs as a courtesy to Muslim members of the community has circulated online since 2017. No one claimed credit for the unauthorized flyer, but it regularly resurfaces on social media, drumming up hateful comments u.afp.com/Sg5y

False claim France's La Jument lighthouse will pay its keeper $1.2 million per year persists online u.afp.com/LaJumentLighth…

🇰🇪 A video falsely claims to shows Uganda's president criticising Kenyan police over their handling of recent protests u.afp.com/MuseveniKenya

⚠️ A major storm hit Vietnam's Ha Long Bay and sunk a tourist ferry in July, but a circulating video of a boat capsizing is in fact from another storm in September 2024 u.afp.com/OldFerryClip

Major social media platforms are enabling and profiting from misinformation around extreme weather events, endangering lives and impeding emergency response efforts, research from the Center for Countering Digital Hate found u.afp.com/SgZi

🇬🇧💉A child's death from measles has sparked urgent calls from British public health officials to get children vaccinated, as the United Kingdom faces an onslaught of misinformation on social media, much of it from the United States. Read more: u.afp.com/SgZU

This picture was used in an article criticising Australian PM Anthony Albanese's migration policies, but it doesn't show recent refugees arriving in Australia -- it was actually taken in Afghanistan factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.66…

❌ This video shows an Indonesian teen attempting a dangerous TikTok challenge, not a truck driver running over an extortionist in Bangladesh u.afp.com/TikTokDeath

AI-powered 'nudify' apps fuel deadly wave of digital blackmail. Warning that this story discusses suicide: u.afp.com/SYEM

Fireflies will still light up summers, despite a decline in diversity u.afp.com/Fireflies

Everyone is talking about the couple caught on the big screen at the Coldplay concert, but a statement purportedly released by the man -- Astronomer CEO Andy Byron -- is fake u.afp.com/SYEs

⚠️ This clip of Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi was misleadingly edited to omit his criticism of Odisha's state government u.afp.com/ClippedRahulGa…

⚠️ This AFP photo of a wrecked jet was taken in 2015; it does not show a crashed Indian Air Force Jaguar aircraft in July u.afp.com/NotJaguarJetCr…

⚽️🏆After Donald Trump joined FIFA Club World Cup winners Chelsea on stage with their championship trophy, posts across platforms claimed the English football team digitally altered a photo from the presentation to remove the US president. This is false u.afp.com/SYss

🇰🇪 An image of protesters taking a pickaxe to a road has been misrepresented as being from recent demonstrations in Kenya ⬇️ u.afp.com/RoadImage

A video appears to show Texas Governor Greg Abbott saying he supports the deportation of Mexican first responders who entered the United States to bolster search and rescue efforts after deadly floods hit his state. But the clip is altered u.afp.com/SYgR

Footage from the set of a movie has been misrepresented online as showing Iran hanging an Israeli spy u.afp.com/IranFilm

New video of armed rebels in Afghanistan vowing to go after those responsible for attack in Indian-administered Kashmir? ❌ The clip predates the attack by three years, and its original audio was replaced u.afp.com/OldRebelClip