Truth or Fake
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Truth or Fake
Truth or Fake is a fact-checking rendez-vous in association with the FRANCE 24 Observers. Our content focuses on false images circulating online and how to identify them. Monday to Thursday at 8:45pm and 10:20pm Paris time.
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UK far-right rally: AI images, old footage exaggerate ‘Unite the Kingdom’ turnout online
Waving Union Jacks, tens of thousands of supporters of far-right activist Tommy Robinson descended on London’s streets last Saturday for a rally known...
Israel built two secret military bases in Iraq to aid Iran war, New York Times reports
A new report by the New York Times claims Israel built a second secret military base in Iraq’s western desert to support its strikes on Iran, and that...
Macron ‘slap’ was sparked by texts with Iranian actress, book claims
An AI-generated tabloid magazine cover online claims to show French President Emmanuel Macron and Iranian-French actress Golshifteh Farahani together....
Trump shares fake quotes, falsely accuses Obama of treason in late-night rant
In a late-night social media blitz before his high-stakes China visit, US President Donald Trump unleashed a string of debunked conspiracy theories, A...
Covid-era conspiracy theories accuse Bill Gates of ‘creating’ hantavirus outbreak
As the number of confirmed hantavirus cases from the Dutch-flagged cruise ship MV Hondius reaches nine, social media users have firmly revived Covid-1...
‘Plandemic, Covid 2.0’: Fact-checking viral conspiracy theories about Hantavirus
As the world saw with Covid-19, the only thing that spreads faster than a virus is misinformation, and hantavirus is no exception. Despite only a few...
Photo shows Israeli soldier desecrating a Virgin Mary statue in Lebanon
The Israeli military says it has launched an investigation after a photo showing one of its soldiers desecrating a statue of the Virgin Mary in south...
Could Iran use ‘kamikaze dolphins’ against the US in the Strait of Hormuz?
As US-Iran tensions escalate around the Strait of Hormuz, a journalist at a Pentagon briefing this week asked top US officials an out-of-the ordinary...
War of words: Trump, Iran trade claims of missile strikes in the Strait of Hormuz
Tensions in the Strait of Hormuz escalated on Monday after US President Donald Trump announced that Washington was beginning "Project Freedom" to help...
Donald Trump backs proposal to rename ICE as ‘NICE’
What started out as a joke on social media has now got the US president's backing. Donald Trump says he supports the idea of changing the name of Immi...
Yes, Donald Trump’s portrait will soon feature in some US passports
Since returning to office, US President Donald Trump has plastered his name, likeness and signature across a series of US government buildings and doc...
‘Staged’: Conspiracy theories surge after shooting at White House Correspondents’ Dinner
Social media has been flooded with conspiracy theories after a gunman's thwarted attack at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday, with bo...
Both Trump and Iran share false information about 8 women facing execution by the regime
On Wednesday, Donald Trump claimed that out of respect for him, Iran had agreed to spare the lives of eight young Iranian women facing execution. But...
‘Hungry all the time’: US Navy deny food shortages after grim photos emerge
The US Navy has fiercely denied claims that its warships in the Middle East are running low on food and leaving its sailors "hungry all the time", as...
Was Donald Trump 'blocked' from using the nuclear codes against Iran?
Former CIA analyst Larry Johnson alleged on a podcast this week that US President Donald Trump wanted to use the nuclear codes against Iran during an...
Israel confirms its soldier destroyed Jesus statue in Lebanon
The Israeli military has confirmed a viral photo of one of its soldiers smashing a statue of Jesus with a sledgehammer in southern Lebanon is "authent...
Israeli military admit to posting AI photo of Lebanese journalist it killed
The Foreign Press Association has accused the Israeli military of discrediting a Lebanese journalist it killed in March, by using an AI-generated phot...
'L’Abuso': Real Italian magazine cover of Israeli settler sparks online storm
Prominent left-leaning Italian weekly L'Espresso is at the centre of a diplomatic storm online, after the Israeli ambassador to Italy slammed its choi...
YouTube bans viral pro-Iran AI-generated LEGO videos trolling Trump
As the "meme war" between the US and Iran continues via AI "slopaganda", an Iran-linked group named Explosive Media has been pumping out viral LEGO-st...
Donald Trump deletes AI image of himself as Jesus after attacking Pope Leo
Donald Trump launched an extraordinary attack on Pope Leo late on Sunday, also going as far as to share an AI-generated image depicting himself as Jes...
NASA's Artemis II: conspiracy theories take off about ‘staged’ green screen
NASA’s Artemis II is set to return to Earth on Friday, after its astronauts travelled further from Earth than any humans before. But the historic luna...
‘Unhinged, insane’: US lawmakers call for Trump’s removal via 25th Amendment
Donald Trump may have announced a last-minute ceasefire agreement with Iran, but it has done little to quieten a growing wave of Democratic lawmakers...
Trump repeats falsehoods that he predicted 9/11 and demanded Bin Laden's death
During a press conference on Monday about the war in Iran, US President Donald Trump made a series of false claims about Washington’s progress in the...
White House posts then deletes Easter video of Trump insulting Macron
The White House briefly published – then deleted – a video from Donald Trump’s private Easter luncheon in which the US president made a series of infl...
Fact-checking Trump's address on the war in Iran
In a 19-minute address to the nation from the White House on Wednesday, President Donald Trump defended his war in Iran, now entering its second month...
Debunking claims Israeli Jews are 'stealing land' in Morocco
Internet users have been sharing a video online that they claim “proves” Israeli Jews are stealing land in Morocco – supposedly reclaiming property fr...
No, Iranian hackers didn’t leak a video of the FBI's Kash Patel dancing
FBI Director Kash Patel has been the subject of social media buzz this week after his private emails were reportedly hacked by an Iranian-linked group...
Fake images falsely claim Iran captured US marines on Kharg Island
American military reinforcements continue to arrive in the Middle East, as uncertainty persists over the possibility of US boots on the ground in Iran...
War in the Mideast: are the UK, Australia and Taiwan about to run out of fuel?
As Iran’s disruption of the Strait of Hormuz fuels global energy anxiety, viral posts are claiming that major economies are on the brink of an unprece...
Has the AFCON trophy been hidden in a military base in Senegal? No
In the wake of the Confederation of African Football's recent decision to strip Senegal of its AFCON title and declare Morocco the winners, some onlin...
Misleading campaign adverts target French far-left in local elections
Over the weekend, thousands of people in Toulouse – France's fourth-largest city – were exposed to a misleading campaign targeting Francois Piquemal,...
Video of Iranian soldier being targeted in a Tehran strike is AI generated
Since Tuesday, videos supposedly showing Iranian soldiers being bombed in Tehran have been widely shared by pro-Israel accounts, Israeli media and eve...
Are US soldiers really "refusing orders" to fight in Iran war?
More than two weeks after the US and Israel launched military strikes on Iran, a rumour has sprung up that American soldiers are refusing, en masse, t...
Social media abuzz with viral rumours of Benjamin Netanyahu's death
Social media has recently been abuzz with false rumours claiming that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was killed in an Iranian missile strik...
Iran trolls Trump with AI-generated Lego propaganda video
The war in Iran is not only being fought on the battlefield – it is also playing out online. Iran’s state media recently took a leaf out of the White...
US Energy Secretary deletes post that Navy escorted tanker through Strait of Hormuz
A brief social media post by the US energy secretary prompted a major U-turn from the Trump administration. Within 30 minutes, Chris Wright had posted...
Video shows US Tomahawk missile strike next to bombed Iranian school
A newly released video by Iran’s Mehr News Agency – verified and geolocated by fact-checking experts – shows an American Tomahawk cruise missile strik...
Dubai influencers post near-identical videos praising city’s ‘safety’
Influencers in Dubai have taken to social media to post near-identical videos praising the city’s safety and glorifying its leadership, using the same...
No, Iranian footballer Mehdi Taremi is not going to fight for the Iranian regime
The claim spread like wildfire on social media earlier this week after the US and Israel began striking Iran: Iranian footballer Mehdi Taremi was cons...
After US attacks, is Iran's navy on the brink?
On Wednesday, US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that a US submarine sank an Iranian warship in international waters. The Pentagon says one o...