AAP FactCheck Articles
Doctor misdiagnoses legality of assisted dying
Victoria legalised voluntary assisted dying in 2017, but a suspended doctor reckons a legal oversight means the practice is still a jailable offence.
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Grisly 'cannibalism' video recooked amid civil unrest
A video showing footage of someone supposedly eating human flesh has been falsely linked to the current political unrest in Haiti.
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Claimed Gazan propaganda is actually Moroccan movie
A video clip showing a patient suddenly climbing off a hospital gurney has gone viral, with claims it's behind-the-scenes footage of Palestinian propaganda shot in Gaza.
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Claim bank will remove all ATMs holds no currency
A viral image claims the Commonwealth Bank will phase out all ATMs in Australia starting with Queensland in 2025, but the bank says it has no such plans.
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Camera illusion sparks 'phoney' war injury claim
A tiny fingernail mark and a photographer's hair parting have been used to debunk a damaging claim relating to the war in the Middle East.
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Senator's vaccine report calculations don't add up
A report detailing adverse events reported after COVID-19 vaccinations has been the subject of unsupported claims in a Senate Estimates hearing.
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Black salve 'cancer cure' makes the skin crawl
Social media users are pushing false claims an alternative medicine can cure cancers, when all the evidence points to its corrosive effects on the skin.
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Home-grown food 'ban' claim has lost the garden plot
The latest conspiracy theory about the World Economic Forum claims the organisation is trying to outlaw home-grown fruits and vegetables.
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Retracted study provides 'greatest hits' of vaccine misinfo
Journal authors have taken action against a study which supposedly proves the COVID-19 vaccines do more harm than good.
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Claims child sex abuse legalised in EU is sick disinformation
Social media users claim a news story from a prominent disinformation website shows the European Union is promoting child sexual abuse.
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Climate change myth mixes up its maths on CO2 rates
A climate denialist trope has reappeared on social media, confusing the rate of human emissions with the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.
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Greenhouse effect may be misnamed, but it's no hoax
Social media posts claim the greenhouse effect isn't real, saying it would work only if the atmosphere acted like a real greenhouse by stopping convection.
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Cataclysmic 'cosmic cycle' is kooky climate conspiracy
An online society is pushing mysterious cosmic influences as the true cause of climate change.
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False treaty claims attempt to rewrite history
Russia's ongoing war with Ukraine has led to a resurgence of falsehoods about a 1990 treaty.
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Claims mislead on Qld vaccine mandate ruling
Several strands of misinformation have emerged following the Queensland Supreme Court's ruling on certain vaccine mandates.
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No, natural cycles cannot explain post-Industrial revolution warming
Claims that Milankovitch cycles - long-term changes in the earth's orbit - contribute to global warming persist in social media despite scientists having dismissed their impact.
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Scientists pour cold water on volcanic glacier melting claims
An old claim that volcanic activity is causing rapid ice melting in Antarctic glaciers has resurfaced on social media.
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Iraqi artist's video misused as 'Pallywood' propaganda
It is being falsely claimed that a Baghdad photographer's 2019 work depicts Palestinian crisis actors.
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Experts flag various issues with standard claim
Australian social media users are falsely claiming that the official flag of Palestine once included the Jewish Star of David.
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Senator wrong with agriculture emissions claim
A politician has suggested farming emissions are being overstated in order to benefit "predatory billionaires" and their "laboratory-grown food-like substances".
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