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You may have heard in some corner of the internet that when scared, spiders will run at a person for protection. As adorable as that sounds, it’s just not true. I spoke with a spider scientist (yes, that's a thing) who told me that an arachnid running toward a person “would be

In 2022, Amber Heard was falsely accused of doing cocaine during her trial against Johnny Depp in a series of "social media posts aiming to discredit her." There was no evidence that Heard had a cocaine nose. politifact.com/factchecks/202…

❌ Spotted this fake Charlie Hebdo cover of Zelensky in a coffin with a word bubble in French that says, "Ukraine is an independent state." These fake covers are a common pro-Russian disinfo tactic. Here's the magazine's latest cover (R).

Shayan Sardarizadeh and I have now found a video version of this AI image of Pikachu and it has more telltale signs of generation: - a police baton appears to shape shift - video has more obvious AI sheen - everyone is moving in slow motion, which is typical of AI videos we’ve seen

With the level of confusion Generative AI is now consistently causing in relation to major news events, I feel like it might be time for a comprehensive thread offering a step-by-step guide on spotting and verifying AI-generated content, including AI audio clips, images and

This is a fake tweet and was never posted by Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene. That "r/totallyrealtweets" subreddit might be a bit of a clue.

You may have seen viral posts like this about Elon Musk saving a seven-year-old girl's life via a Neuralink device implanted into her brain. The image in the post is AI-generated and there's zero evidence that this story ever happened. It's pure fiction for online engagement.

This video, first published by a conspiracy account on TikTok, which claims to show CCTV footage of Keir Starmer and Labour donor Lord Alli kissing, is fake and was likely created with AI. The timestamp, hands behind the neck and arms make no sense.

This Robert Francis Prevost X account has quickly added tens of thousands of followers since the election of Pope Leo XIV, but it is a fake impersonating the new pontiff. Replies to its oldest live post, from 2024, indicate that it was previously using the handle "HanKangOffic."

Several people have asked what happened to my website. It was simply downgraded to a free Wordpress account: hoaxeye.wordpress.com because currently I don't want to pay for hosting and domain name

An AFP News Agency investigation found hundreds of fabricated Pope Leo XIV speeches, in English and Spanish, underscoring how easily hoaxes created with AI can elude detection and dupe viewers. YouTube and TikTok have since removed multiple pages posting the fakes. france24.com/en/live-news/2…

Fascinating piece from Stuart A. Thompson on Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives and how he works to post engagement farming tweets all day, everyday for what is a pretty minuscule return -- about $55k/year (less, really). It confirms everything you suspected about how this works. nytimes.com/2025/06/06/tec…

If you've been wondering about the reliability of Grok and other AI chatbots as fact-checking tools, especially in breaking news situations, here's an interesting case. All these answers were given by Grok within the last hour about two photos of National Guard troops.

NEW As usual for major news events, disinformation on social media is running unchecked during the #LAProtests So people are turning to chatbots like Grok and ChatGPT for fact-checking The problem is, the bots are making the situation much worse wired.com/story/grok-cha…

Our global digital investigation team at AFP has been hard at work debunking disinformation about the Iran-Israel war and the US strikes on Iranian nuclear sites, in multiple languages. Here are some English-language claims we have debunked: factcheck.afp.com/fact-checking-…

No they didn't. That image is not from CIA and it's fake, see instagram.com/reel/DJ7peDKhx… CIA was interested in these topics back in 1980s, see cia.gov/readingroom/do… but they didn't solve consciousness