Jan 24, 2025 · AFP Fact Check is a department within Agence France-Presse (AFP), a multi-lingual, multicultural news agency whose mission is to provide accurate, balanced and impartial coverage of news wherever and whenever it happens in the world on a continuous basis.

4 days ago · Posts falsely claim video shows hurricane relief under new Trump administration

2 days ago · As rescue crews pulled bodies out of the Potomac River, and before officials could investigate what went wrong, President Donald Trump blamed a January 29, 2025 plane crash in Washington on diversity initiatives he said his Democratic predecessors Barack Obama and Joe Biden promoted at the expense of air safety. But Trump's claim that the Federal Aviation Administration pushed to hire air ...

3 days ago · The claim was reiterated in a White House press briefing on January 28 (archived here). "The water has been turned back on in California," said Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, mentioning the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) -- the agency in charge of flood control and flood risk management throughout California -- when asked to clarify the nature of the military operations Trump was ...

5 days ago · US conservatives baselessly tie New Orleans attacker to illegal immigration ...

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Jan 21, 2025 · Rampant misinformation linking autism to vaccination has circulated for decades. The latest iteration spreading online falsely shared a scientific paper as evidence Covid-19 jabs cause the lifelong condition. However, the report published in The Lancet medical journal did not mention vaccines and instead explored the prevalence and health burden of autism.

Mar 14, 2024 · "One of the reasons the polio vaccine doesn't work is because polio isn't caused by an infectious virus. It's caused by toxins," claims Children's Health Defense in a March 1, 2024 post on X.. AFP has repeatedly fact-checked vaccination claims from the advocacy group, which is headed by US presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr.. The latest post links to an interview between nephrologist ...

Nov 24, 2023 · Safety data gathered from global inoculation programmes show serious side effects from Covid-19 vaccines are rare, but social media posts are falsely claiming the jabs are "more dangerous" than the coronavirus that has actually killed millions. These posts cite a paper about the purported risks and benefits of booster jabs for healthy young adults but its findings have been disputed by other ...

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