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Copyright AFP 2017-2022. All rights reserved. Michigan’s primary election is on August 2, 2022, but some websites and social media users claim a local news broadcaster reported the results in advance. This is misleading; News Channel 3 said it inadvertently published mock tallies used for testing …
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Copyright AFP 2017-2022. All rights reserved. Former US president Donald Trump claims a recent documentary “proves a massive illegal ballot harvesting operation took place” during the 2020 election. But experts say the evidence cited in the film is circumstantial and does not support any such …
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Copyright AFP 2017-2022. All rights reserved. Fictional footage from a British TV thriller has been viewed tens of thousands of times in social media posts that claim it is a World Economic Forum (WEF) advert in which a man suggests he should kill a woman’s son to prevent carbon emissions generated …
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Copyright AFP 2017-2022. All rights reserved. A screenshot circulating online appears to show a tweet from the World Economic Forum calling for reform of the internet as part of the Great Reset, a plan to revive the economy after Covid-19 that has been targeted by conspiracy theories. However, the …
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Copyright AFP 2017-2021. All rights reserved. Online articles and social media posts say Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum (WEF), has been arrested. The claim is false, confirmed Swiss police, Europol and WEF; Schwab was not detained and in fact spoke at an …
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Copyright AFP 2017-2021. All rights reserved. An image has been shared repeatedly in social media posts that claim it shows a book passage where World Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab purportedly wrote billions will die from ‘organized epidemics’. The claim is false: the image has been taken …
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Copyright AFP 2017-2021. All rights reserved. An image has been shared hundreds of times in multiple Facebook posts that purports to show a comparison between the boot tread of a spacesuit worn by US astronaut Neil Armstrong for his 1969 mission to the Moon and a boot print he apparently left on …
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Copyright AFP 2017-2020. All rights reserved. Donald Trump made a series of unsubstantiated claims about US presidential election results from Georgia during an hour-long call with its secretary of state and other officials, rejecting the legitimacy of the vote a little more than two weeks before …
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Copyright AFP 2017-2020. All rights reserved. Social media posts shared thousands of times claim AT&T was contracted to conduct a “forensic audit” of machines from election technologies firm Dominion Voting Systems, linking this to a bombing near one of the telecommunication company’s facilities in …
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Copyright AFP 2017-2020. All rights reserved. A report that is part of a lawsuit against Antrim County, Michigan claims the county’s quickly-corrected election night vote tally glitch was not due to human error, as the state said, but rather intentional election fraud. This is false; Michigan’s …
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