Videos are claiming a clear cutout in envelopes Arizona used to mail primary ballots allowed Republican votes to be mishandled. But by law, solid green return envelopes were provided to keep party affiliation private. Read more: u.afp.com/SDEe
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Election deniers falsely claim fraudulent "ballot drop" in LA mayoral race.
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A video shared as a recent case of police brutality in Nigeria is old. The footage showing an officer hitting a woman, firing his gun, and threatening to kill her, was recorded in December 2021. The officer was arrested after the video surfaced in January 2022.
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A video viewed more than 1.5 million times is warning drivers about tracking via a small 5G imprint on the side of a license plate. But the marking is a manufacturing code on the plate's reflective sheeting and in no way connected to the 5G infrastructure that powers cellular networks u.afp.com/SDyd
Scammers are using AI voice clones to impersonate victims' loved ones, making them believe they are in dangerous situations to trick them into sending money.
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Amid anti-migrant tensions in South Africa, a video claims that Nigerian students ordered South Africans out of Nigeria. But the clip contains unrelated footage, among them a 2019 video of a former student leader speaking out against xenophobia.
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A video from New York congressional candidate Brad Lander claims to show incumbent Dan Goldman saying: "I do take corporate PAC money, and I have no problem taking money from anyone who wants to give it to me."
But it is deceptively edited. Read more: u.afp.com/SDEM
With the traditional school year coming to a close, Facebook pages are claiming a variety of public figures stepped in to pay off student lunch debt in Canada. But this is false and the articles shared as proof appear to be mass-produced with artificial intelligence.
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Claims that a clip shows Muslims killed during Eid al-Adha prayers in Tigray, Ethiopia, are false. The footage shows worshippers gathering peacefully for Eid in Harar, eastern Ethiopia. The original video was edited with a misleading voiceover.
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