This viral video does not show India’s missile strikes on Pakistan. It’s footage from an Israeli air raid on Gaza in October 2023 -- now falsely shared amid the most serious India-Pakistan border escalation in two decades. factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

Pakistan said it shot down five Indian jets on May 7, 2025, amid the worst India-Pakistan violence in decades. But a viral image of a burning aircraft is unrelated. It actually shows a 2024 jet crash in Rajasthan during a routine night training mission. u.afp.com/OldPlaneCras...

Tremors from the March 28 #EarthquakeinMyanmar flattened a Bangkok building. As rescue ops entered day 5, viral footage claimed a new survivor was found. But the video was filmed the day of the collapse. Officials also told AFP there were no new survivors on April 1. u.afp.com/RescueFootage

#EarthquakeinMyanmar collapsed several buildings but rumours that the country's most sacred Buddhist site has crumbled are inaccurate. The Shwedagon pagoda in Yangon in fact has not been destroyed, and the false posts have misrepresented footage of another temple. u.afp.com/NotShwedagon

This video shows the set and scenes from a Hollywood-style stunt performance put on every weekend at Dream World amusement park in Bangkok, Thailand -- not war crimes being committed by Israeli soldiers in Gaza. factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

Old stock photos of rescue dogs are being falsely shared by Thai users as showing a search operation in #Bangkok after a 7.7-magnitude quake struck #Myanmar and a high-rise building collapsed in the Thai capital. #EarthquakeinMyanmar u.afp.com/OldSnifferDo...

🇹🇭🇲🇲 More than a million people have fled Myanmar's brutal civil war to seek shelter and work in neighboring Thailand. @afpfactcheck.bsky.social journalists in Bangkok report on how nationalists there are using disinformation to fuel prejudice against them

War of words: Myanmar migrants face disinformation in Thailand

More than a million people have fled Myanmar's brutal civil war to seek shelter and work in neighbouring Thailand, where experts say nationalists are using disinformation to fuel prejudice against the...

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Meta’s new policies lifting restrictions on gender and identity topics and ending U.S. fact-checking are sparking outrage. Advocacy groups warn these changes open the door to hate speech and put marginalized communities at risk. www.rfi.fr/en/internati...

Campaigners fear spike in hate speech as Meta lifts restrictions

Tech giant Meta has rolled back restrictions around topics such as gender and sexual identity, a sweeping move advocacy groups fear will fuel hate speech.

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