AP’S ASSESSMENT: False.
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ABC News / AP Fact Check→ A Thai child in a Halloween costume is being misrepresented to label Palestinians as ‘crisis actors’
CLAIM: A collage of nine images features the same Palestinian “crisis actor” pretending to be a wounded patient, a dead body and others in the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ Airstrike scene from a video game is being misrepresented as real footage from the Israel-Hamas war
CLAIM: A video shows a soldier being thrown to the ground as an airstrike hits an Israeli tank. AP’S ASSESSMENT: False.
FactCheck.org→ Online Video Misrepresents Putin Speech Commemorating WWII Victory
Para leer en español, vea esta traducción de Google Translate. Quick Take An online video shows Russian President Vladimir Putin addressing a 2021 military rally commemorating the triumph over Nazism in World War II. But an Instagram post shar
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ Video from 2013 protest in Cairo misrepresented to falsely claim Palestinians are staging deaths
CLAIM: A video showing bodies moving after being covered by white cloths is evidence that deaths are being faked by Palestinians and Hamas during the Israel-Hamas war.
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ Fans marching to a soccer game in Sao Paulo misrepresented as pro-Palestinian protesters in France
CLAIM: Video shows a huge pro-Palestinian rally in France in response to the Israel-Hamas war. AP’S ASSESSMENT: False.
Logically→ 2017 video misrepresented as recent attack by Houthis on U.S. Navy destroyer
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Black Flag Over Iran’s Razavi Shrine Was NOT Call For War To All Muslims In October 2023 — Claim Misrepresented Its Meaning
Was a black flag that appeared over Razavi Shrine in Iran in October 2023 meant to express a "call to all of Islam for War"? No, that's not true: In this particular case, it was a symbol of mourning, as the Facebook account for the shrine
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ Old story about the Gaza film industry misrepresented as proof Palestinian war victims are ‘crisis actors’
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False.
AllSides→ Posts Use Fabricated Audio to Misrepresent CNN Report During Rocket Attack in Israel
https://www.factcheck.org/2023/10/posts-use-fabricated-audio-to-misrepresent-cnn-report-during-rocket-attack-in-israel/
FactCheck.org→ Posts Use Fabricated Audio to Misrepresent CNN Report During Rocket Attack in Israel
Para leer en español, vea esta traducción de Google Translate. Quick Take A CNN report on Oct. 9 showed a news crew in Israel taking shelter in a roadside ditch during a rocket attack. But social media posts used fabricated audio of the news c
Logically→ Old video misrepresented to show Orthodox Jews protesting in support of Palestine
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ A video from 2012 is being misrepresented as an attack on the Israel Embassy in Bahrain
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The video was filmed in 2012.
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ An old and unrelated video from Spain is being misrepresented as a pro-Palestinian protest
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False.
AllSides→ Online Video Misrepresents Ukraine’s Conscription of Women in War with Russia
https://www.factcheck.org/2023/10/online-video-misrepresents-ukraines-conscription-of-women-in-war-with-russia/
FactCheck.org→ Online Video Misrepresents Ukraine’s Conscription of Women in War with Russia
Para leer en español, vea esta traducción de Google Translate. Quick Take Ukraine began requiring women with medical and pharmaceutical backgrounds to register for the military on Oct. 1 and remain in the country in the event they are called i
FactCheck.org→ Viral Video Clip Misrepresents Trump Remarks on Israel
Quick Take A video clip shared on Instagram on the day Hamas attacked Israel appears to show former President Donald Trump condemning Israel. But the clip is from a 2019 campaign rally and has been taken out of context. Trump was not expressing his
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ A five-month-old video of an attack on a Gaza building is being misrepresented as new
AP VERIFICATION: False.
PolitiFact→ Mike Gallagher – Gallagher misrepresents China’s role in US fentanyl crisis
China sends “fentanyl into America killing 80,000 Americans a year.”
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ Popular social media meme misrepresents flu vaccine ingredients
CLAIM: A meme shows a list of 27 ingredients in flu vaccines, including mercury, formaldehyde, antifreeze, aluminum, “aborted baby” lung culture, monkey kidney cells, fetal cow serum and other concerning ingredients.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Study Did NOT Find Women Store DNA From Every Man They’ve Ever Made Love With — Findings Are Misrepresented
Did a study by the University of Seattle and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center discover that women harvest and store in their brain DNA from every man they've ever made love with? No, that's not true: The headline on an article g
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ Old photo of surrendering Ukrainian troops misrepresented on social media
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False.
FactCheck.org→ Online Posts Misrepresent Purpose of USDA Community Garden Database
Quick Take A U.S. Department of Agriculture program that promotes the growth of community gardens in areas with little access to fresh food encourages community groups to register with the USDA. But social media posts misleadingly suggest the USDA
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ Videos of homeless housing in Hawaii and California misrepresented online as FEMA camps
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False.
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ Social media posts misrepresent CDC data on the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines in teens
CLAIM: Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that COVID-19 vaccines will not prevent any deaths among teenagers and lead to 100,000 to 200,000 severe side effects.
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ Old footage from Saudi Arabia misrepresented as scenes of devastating flooding from Libya
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False.
FactCheck.org→ Posts Misrepresent Use of Floodgates at Southern Border
Quick Take To avoid damage from heavy rains, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials have opened floodgates along Arizona’s border fencing during monsoon season since 2009. But social media users, including Sen. Ted Cruz, shared posts wi
Logically→ Rescue footage from typhoon Doksuri in Beijing misrepresented as flooding in Libya
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ Footage of a fake alien invasion is being misrepresented as a lightning strike before Morocco quake
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False.
Logically→ Study on COVID-19 vaccines misrepresented to claim they cause ‘VAIDS’ in children
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ A video filmed at a New York art exhibit is being misrepresented as a new airplane seat concept
CLAIM: A video of a woman positioning herself upside down in a chair-like object, her arms resting in stirrups and her knees on the seat, shows a concept for new airplane seats.
Health Feedback→ Posts misrepresent CDC risk assessment of new SARS-CoV-2 variant BA.2.86; COVID-19 vaccines don’t increase the risk of infection
REVIEW The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published a document on 23 August 2023 summarizing what was known at the time about a new SARS-CoV-2 variant called BA.2.86. In the document, the CDC reported that “BA.2.86 may be mo
FactCheck.org→ Video Clip Misrepresents Biden’s Meeting with Israeli President
Quick Take President Joe Biden met with the Israeli president in July at the White House. A clip from that meeting is circulating online with the false suggestion that Biden was “falling asleep” during the meeting. The full video shows
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: 78,000 People Are NOT Under The Water In Great Britain — Old Video Clips Are Misrepresented
Are 78,000 people "under the water" right now in Great Britain? No, that's not true: This video is a compilation of flood and storm video clips from years past, and in some cases from other places such as Canada and South Africa. These ar
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ A post from a parody Trudeau account about a ‘Digital Existence Act’ is being misrepresented as real
CLAIM: A screenshot shows a social media post from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announcing the “Digital Existence Act” in response to a new COVID-19 variant.
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ A clip of a waterspout at a Florida beach is being misrepresented as Hurricane Idalia
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False.
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Video doesn’t show ‘Great Britain now’ with people underwater. Clips are misrepresented
Video shows the state of “Great Britain now,” with “78,000 people under the water.”
FactCheck.org→ Conservative Posts Misrepresent Royalty Payments to Fauci and Collins
SciCheck Digest Documents show that Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Francis Collins received 58 royalty payments from 2010 to 2021 for their research. Only three of the payments came in 2020 or 2021; the rest were made prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. But
Health Feedback→ Conspiracy theory about the deaths of alternative medicine practitioners ignores evidence, misrepresents certain doctors
REVIEW A TikTok video published in early July 2023 implied that doctors practicing alternative medicine were killed to prevent “Big Pharma” from losing money. In the reel, herbalist Katryna Benson, who has more than 14,000 followers on TikTok, p
FactCheck.org→ Posts Misrepresent Military’s Response to Maui Wildfires
Quick Take The White House declared the site of the Maui wildfires a disaster area, and the Department of Defense has provided more than 400 troops, air support and other resources in firefighting and recovery efforts. Yet posts on Instagram misrep