First, he lost his child in Seoul's Halloween crowd crush. Then came a torrent of online abuse, upending his family's once-private life and making him an internet-wide figure of mockery ➡️ AFP News Agency story by Shim Kyu-seok u.afp.com/iBHC

Woken up by what felt like a minor earthquake in Hong Kong just now

A photo can be taken out of context so easily online An AFP journalist in Hyderabad visited the cemetery and confirmed the grave was located there, not in Pakistan

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A sharp decline in air travel during the pandemic did not reduce CO2 levels, but that does not mean humans have little impact on emissions The temporary drop in air travel was not enough to affect the long-term build-up of carbon pollution u.afp.com/PandemicCO2

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🧵 As thousands of protesting Indian farmers rode towards New Delhi, a graphic video emerged in Facebook posts claiming it showed protesters crushing a policeman with a tractor The footage shows a demonstrator killed in August at an unrelated rally (1/5) u.afp.com/OldPunjabVideo

🇬🇧👑 Old photos of the UK flag lowered to half-mast flooded social media this week, fuelling rumours about the health of Catherine, Princess of Wales The pictures were actually taken in Westminster in 2017 and the British Consulate in Istanbul in 2022 u.afp.com/UnionFlagHalfM…

Taylor Swift fans dangling from a stadium roof? ❌🎤 This picture falsely shared on Facebook (left) was actually edited from a photo of fans of Mexican rapper Santa Fe Klan trying to get into his sold-out concert in 2022 (right) u.afp.com/SwiftiesRoof

Cancer cases have surged in under-50s but Covid vaccines are not to blame Articles and posts say new research on rising cancer diagnoses is proof of a 'vaccine disaster' but the study looked at global data in the three decades before the pandemic u.afp.com/CovidVaccineCa…

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⚠️ Seen this dramatic footage in Facebook posts about Iran's attack on Israel? The video compilation of explosions and panicked crowds actually shows disasters in Lebanon, Chile and Japan that all happened before Tehran's April 13 assault u.afp.com/DisasterCompil…

India's election commission has rejected a rumour that Muslim voters in West Bengal are wearing prosthetic fingers to vote multiple times Social media posts spreading the baseless claim share photos that were in fact taken in Japan more than a decade ago u.afp.com/FakeFingers

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THREAD 🧵 Student protests against civil service job quotas in Bangladesh sparked nationwide violence that left more than 200 people dead As chaos swept the country, AFP's fact checkers debunked some of the falsehoods spread online (1/7)

“I’m not sure I’m the most credible source because I don’t actually know the person who lost the cat.” An exclusive NewsGuard report reveals that the explosive claim that Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, are stealing and eating pets was ultimately based on triple hearsay