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Well done to all, including Mary Kulundu and James Okong'o from AFP Fact Check 🔎 👏🏻

"Companies are way ahead of the media in how they frame their climate communication." - Tacking Greenwashing and Climate Misinformation by Ivan Couronne for AFP News Agency #NISLIS

.AFP News Agency offers digital investigative techniques to all journalists, available in 4 languages digitalcourses.afp.com

Here’s AFP’s online course on tackling climate misinformation that I spoke about today at #NISLIS We now have 11 short online courses on the platform, in 4 languages digitalcourses.afp.com/courses/verify… AFP Fact Check 🔎 Google News Initiative European Journalism Centre

With so much discussion about the use of language in the coverage of the Israel-Hamas war, I wrote this to explain AFP News Agency 's policy over the use of the word terrorist. #Gaza #Israel afp.com/en/agency/pres…

"He could get killed because of this lie,” the father of a boy falsely claimed to be a Palestinian “crisis actor” told AFP News Agency. My latest with Anuj Chopra on the real-world harms of disinformation accusing civilians of faking their suffering in Gaza. barrons.com/amp/news/he-co…

The information war running in parallel with the deadly conflict on the ground has seen conspiracy theorists accuse ordinary Palestinians and Israelis of being "crisis actors" –- feigning injuries and deaths to garner sympathy and demonise the other side u.afp.com/53Vc

🧵 An Agence France-Presse investigation into a strike in southern Lebanon that killed a Reuters journalist and wounded six others, including two from AFP, points to a tank round used only by the Israeli army in the region 1/8 ➡️ u.afp.com/oct13investiga…

And, also out today - 𝐭𝐡𝐞 official poster for the Paris Olympics👇 It's certainly a little busy 😀 but definitely cool ❤️🇫🇷

Update today of our verification plugin (InVID_EU WeV3rify_H2020_Project vera.ai) v0.81. With improvements to beta tools for fact-checkers to be presented today at #GlobalFact11 in Sarajevo. ⬇️ u.afp.com/plugin

“Facts are the only anchor in our shared reality,” says Maria Ressa at the opening of #globalfact11 in Sarajevo in conversation with Philip Chetwynd. “It is a battle for facts.” Poynter

Pleased to share a new course with practical exercises for journalists and fact checkers at #globalfact11 International Fact-Checking Network, as well as new master certificates for our open access training platform

The accidental publication of a VK Teams screenshot showing the methodology of Doppelgänger ad creators found by French researcher Paul Bouchaud and mentioned by Craig Silverman in his excellent session on ad libraries at #GlobalFact11 International Fact-Checking Network

AFP photojournalist Christina Assi said she felt "incredible" support as she carried the Olympic Flame outside Paris Sunday, almost a year after being gravely wounded while reporting in Lebanon. tinyurl.com/39bssph8

Today is #WorldMentalHealthDay. As digital investigators we're often not experiencing what we see online, in real life, but it can still affect many. So to keep doing the important documentation and investigative work online, here's a few practical steps you can take.👇

💬 First breakout session at #NISCPH on fighting climate misinformation! Sophie Nicholson @sophiehnic.bsky.social & Ivan Couronne (AFP) talk about Agence France-Presse ’s new climate reporting training. Rina Tsubaki (European Forest Institute (EFI)) explains how disagreements in science can make climate reporting harder and shared tools

⚠️CDC WEBSITES DELETED—Multiple CDC websites and datasets related to HIV, LGBTQ people, youth health behaviors and more have been removed after the agency was directed to comply with an executive order from President Trump by 5pm deadline. Wildest is taking down even HIV pages!

📣Verification is crucial in the digital age and a free toolkit co-developed by AFP can help speed up the process. We’re pleased to launch an open access course for journalists to demystify the Verification Plugin, also known as InVID-WeVerify, with the support of Google News Initiative

I decided to use my lunch time to show you how easy it is to make a fake news story in 30 minutes with Veo3 (I didn't try to perfect it). First: the footage. A mayor comes with a crazy idea and people hate it: (1/10) #verification #ai