A speech delivered by Ethiopian army chief Birhanu Jula has been shared as criticism of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. But the clip has been altered and presented out of context. Birhanu's address on national sovereignty never mentioned Abiy. u.afp.com/SrZj

Posts claiming a video shows the aftermath of attacks in Ethiopia's Oromia region are false. The footage shows a fire that destroyed a displacement camp in Sudan's northern Darfur region in May. Read more: u.afp.com/Oromia

⚽️ A video claiming to show a drone tribute to Cristiano Ronaldo in Madeira after Portugal's 2026 World Cup exit is not real. The clip is AI-generated. Read more: u.afp.com/WCR7

🇮🇳 This video circulating on X does not show Indian army chief Dhiraj Seth denouncing unreported deaths of soldiers during the country's conflict last year with Pakistan -- the original footage depicts him speaking in Hindi with no mention of the fighting u.afp.com/SKRS

Massive crowds gathered in Tehran to mourn Iran's late supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, but this clip does not show the ceremony. The footage does not match visuals of the Iranian capital, and detection software indicates it was generated using AI u.afp.com/SKaN

🇧🇩 Bangladesh's former prime minister Sheikh Hasina gave an interview to Indian news outlet NDTV last month, but this video circulating online is unrelated. The footage is nearly two decades old and was filmed during a question-and-answer session at the London School of Economics u.afp.com/SKuC

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Violence erupted in Ethiopia's Oromia region in June. At least 11 people were killed and thousands displaced, with the government and rebel forces blaming each other. However, a video purported to show soldiers burning Oromo people comes from a South African TV series u.afp.com/SKWR

US President Donald Trump continues to mislead by claiming foreign fishermen had access to the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument in the Atlantic Ocean where he recently reversed commercial fishing bans. Read more: u.afp.com/lobster

Social media posts have falsely pinned the deadly Venezuela earthquakes on the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) in Alaska. Experts also say no laser force could have triggered events of such magnitude. Read more: u.afp.com/SKGm

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A Jewish lawyer wounded in a shooting at Australia’s Bondi Beach told a royal commission that he discovered AI-generated images depicting him as a “crisis actor” were spreading online as he went into surgery. Many are still up despite being debunked u.afp.com/SKiK

This clip was captured during the demolition of a building damaged in Turkey after a 2023 earthquake. It is unrelated to the deadly quakes that hit Venezuela. Read more: u.afp.com/SKZZ

We also spotted this false claim about the Reflecting Pool algae. It originated on a satire site. Read more: u.afp.com/SKZJ

A chain link fence surrounds the Reflecting Pool in Washington ahead of the July 4 fireworks display. This image purporting to show thick blue tarp on the barrier is altered. Read more: u.afp.com/SKZo

A video is spreading with claims it shows Venezuelans taking cover as a pair of massive earthquakes struck near Caracas on June 24, 2026. But the clip is old and unrelated, having been captured during a similar disaster that hit Myanmar in March 2025. Read more: u.afp.com/SKkr

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Pap smear testing has been safely used for decades to screen for cervical cancer. But social media influencers are falsely claiming the brush used in the test exposes individuals to dangerous amounts of a chemical routinely used to sterilize medical equipment. Read more: u.afp.com/Szez

The Iranian men's national football team brought children's backpacks onto the pitch before a March 2026 friendly as a tribute to the victims of a strike that hit a school at the start of the Middle East war, but this image said to show a World Cup athlete is inauthentic. Read more: u.afp.com/SzPR

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🇰🇷 South Korean election authorities and experts told us this video is not proof of fraud in recent local elections, as posts online claim. In fact, it depicts a longstanding security practice for handling early votes u.afp.com/SKoreaBallot...

Fake picture of German football fan dressed as Hitler originated with satire. Read more: u.afp.com/Szfx

🇺🇸 🗳️ The Los Angeles mayoral race triggered a flood of misinformation from online influencers sponsored by betting companies -- exposing a new threat analysts warn could undermine the integrity of future elections. Read more: u.afp.com/Szxf

🇪🇸 While Spain has introduced an amnesty programme for undocumented migrants, there is no evidence of a new visa scheme for foreigners who marry Spanish citizens -- contrary to posts sharing a fabricated news report in Pakistan u.afp.com/SzGQ

Videos circulating online claim to show recent retaliation against South African-owned businesses in Nigeria amid the latest xenophobic unrest in South Africa. But the footage dates to 2019. Read more: u.afp.com/NG-SA

🇫🇷⚽️ An article alleged Kylian Mbappé revealed his 2024 transfer to Real Madrid was catalyzed by harassment at the hands of French President Emmanuel Macron. But it was published on a website imitating Eurosport and bears the hallmarks of a pro-Russian disinformation operation u.afp.com/Sz3p

This image does not show ballots for California's June 2, 2026 primary elections discarded in a Sonoma Valley dumpster. In fact, the photo shows empty ballot return envelopes from a 2018 election -- not marked ballots -- that were being recycled. Read more: u.afp.com/SzZ5

Amid anti-migrant tensions in South Africa, a video claims that Nigerian students ordered South Africans out of Nigeria. But the clip contains unrelated footage, among them a 2019 video of a former student leader speaking out against xenophobia. Read more: u.afp.com/NGUltimatum

With the traditional school year coming to a close, Facebook pages are claiming a variety of public figures stepped in to pay off student lunch debt in Canada. But this is false and the articles shared as proof appear to be mass-produced with artificial intelligence. Read more: u.afp.com/SDyX

A video viewed more than 1.5 million times is warning drivers about tracking via a small 5G imprint on the side of a license plate. But the marking is a manufacturing code on the plate's reflective sheeting and in no way connected to the 5G infrastructure that powers cellular networks u.afp.com/SDyd