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AFP Fact Check→ Social media posts share edited image of anti-coup protest in Yangon, Myanmar

2021-02-22 An image has been shared in multiple posts on Facebook and Twitter alongside claims it shows an anti-coup protest in  Yangon, Myanmar's largest city. The image, however, has been altered; although there have been huge crowds at protests against the Go to site post…»

AFP Fact Check→ Photo of Buddhist monks protesting in Yangon in 2007 shared in misleading posts after 2021 military coup

2021-02-19 A photo of Buddhist monks protesting in a street has been shared hundreds of times in multiple social media posts about demonstrations against the Myanmar military’s coup in February 2021. The photo, however, has been shared in a misleading context Go to site post…»

AFP Fact Check→ The image has been doctored to add a woman into a photo of a tank patrolling in Yangon

2021-02-17 An image purportedly showing a woman with a sword confronting a tank in Myanmar has been shared on Facebook and Twitter as the junta intensifies a crackdown on anti-coup protesters. However, the image has been doctored from a photo of military vehic Go to site post…»

AFP Fact Check→ These photos of police on a building in Yangon were not taken during protests in 2021

2021-02-12 As tens of thousands of people protested on the streets of Myanmar following a military coup, two photos circulated on Facebook and Twitter purporting to show police snipers aiming their weapons from a rooftop bar in the country's largest city, Go to site post…»

AFP Fact Check→ This photo shows a fire at a shopping mall in the Philippines in 2020

2021-03-12 A photo of a burning building has been shared thousands of times in multiple posts on Facebook alongside a claim that it shows a fire at Kan Thar Yar hospital, which is linked to Myanmar’s military chief, in Yangon in March 2021. The claim, however, Go to site post…»

AFP Fact Check→ Social media users share 2007 video alongside misleading claim about Myanmar military coup in 2021

2021-02-05 A video has been viewed tens of thousands of times in multiple Facebook posts alongside a claim it shows a violent military crackdown on protesting monks in Myanmar. The posts circulated online shortly after Myanmar's military seized power in a bloodle Go to site post…»

AFP Fact Check→ These photos have circulated in reports since 2019 about a Myanmar minister marking Prophet Mohammed’s birthday

2020-11-24 Two photos have been shared hundreds of times in multiple Facebook and Twitter posts which claim it shows Myanmar’s Religious Affairs Minister attending a large gathering to mark the Prophet Mohammed’s birthday in Yangon, flouting social distancing Go to site post…»

AFP Fact Check→ Hoax circulates online that Aung San Suu Kyi plagiarised a historic Russian poem

2020-09-24 Facebook posts claim that a hand-written poem by Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi, which fetched $180,000 USD at auction in Yangon early September, was plagiarised from a poem by Vladimir Mayakovsky. The claim is false: Russian literature exp Go to site post…»

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