AAP FactCheck Articles
World Bank is not missing $41 billion in climate funds, despite claims
A New Zealand Christian preacher and political party leader has misconstrued the findings of an Oxfam report into World Bank climate finance.
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Bill Gates vaccination TedTalk hasn't been 'scrubbed'
Social media users are continuing to falsely claim a clip of Bill Gates promoting vaccines to curb population growth has been excised from the internet.
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No, viral video does not show 2024 Trump ballots being burned
An old video debunked at the 2020 US election has been reshared as supposed "proof" of interference with votes for Donald Trump at the current ballot box.
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New defence directive isn't carte blanche for US military to use 'lethal force' against citizens
Posts online also falsely suggest the updated guidance is related to November's presidential election, but the US Department of Defense and experts have poured cold water on the claims.
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Sydney Opera House's 'subterranean chamber' the product of digital mischief
Readers outside Australia have been duped by a digitally crafted viral image depicting a giant multi-level structure hidden beneath Sydney's famous Opera House.
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Peter Dutton wrong to say homebuilding has halved under Labor
The opposition leader claims only 100,000 new homes began construction in the past year, but the official data tells a different story.
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No, hep B vaccine wasn't created for 'hookers and drug users'
Social media posts falsely claim the hepatitis B vaccine was created for sex workers and drug addicts and that there is no reason for babies to be vaccinated.
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Cancer campaign misrepresented to make false claim
Social media users are misrepresenting a Cancer Council campaign to make false claims about the prevalence of the disease in Australia.
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Irish hate laws won't get you arrested for accidental misgendering
New Irish hate crimes legislation is being twisted to wrongly claim that accidentally misgendering another person could result in arrest.
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No, viral photo does not show a Canadian's vote for Trump
An image currently spreading online ahead of the US election on November 5 can be traced back to an X post by an American account more than two weeks ago.
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Gaza polio vaccination campaign targeted by misinformation
An image of a Palestinian child suffering from a skin disease has been used to push false claims about the polio vaccination campaign in Gaza.
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Jacinda Ardern not made a dame for 'globalist agenda' work
Claims the former NZ prime minister received a damehood for contributing to 'the globalist agenda' via her work for the World Economic Forum are wrong on all counts.
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Child vaccines are safety tested, despite false claims online
Social media users are spreading bogus claims about child vaccine safety, using clips of Robert F Kennedy Jr's controversial interview with US podcaster Joe Rogan.
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Deepfake or cheapfake? Video making false allegations against Walz goes viral
A video containing damaging allegations about Tim Walz is a fake, but the issues it raises about the means used to spread misinformation are very real.
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Claim COVID virus has never been isolated is 'entirely false'
Social media posts are using a 134-year-old theory to falsely claim there's no proof the virus that causes COVID-19 exists.
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Video of US experts saying men can have babies is fake
Social media users have been duped by manipulated video that appears to show US politicians and health experts discussing male pregnancy.
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NZ minister's justification for cutting Maori language program funding misleads
Experts say New Zealand's education minister made misleading statements that the Te Ahu o te Reo Maori program was not improving student achievement in the classroom.
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Fake 'white genocide' article reappears, gets retweeted by Elon Musk
A discredited 2015 essay on white genocide is doing the rounds on social media once more, even though its author admits it is fake.
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Bad ballot advice could render your vote invalid
Social media users are disseminating how-to-vote information that could result in ballots not being counted.
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UNRWA black band logo predates Yahya Sinwar's death
A UN aid agency in Palestine has been falsely accused of putting a black band on its logo to mourn the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.
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