German neo-Nazi rappers push hate speech and antisemitism on TikTok, Instagram, Spotify Songs promote hatred and conspiracy theories as part of 'increasingly radical movement,' experts say; some clips remain online despite breaching hate speech policies

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Dams, housing, pensions: Franco disinformation flourishes online Half a century after the death of Francisco Franco, disinformation on social media has credited the Spanish dictator with social achievements that present his iron-fisted rule in a nostalgic light.

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🌎 Online posts claim to show a woman who arrived at a New York airport carrying a passport from an non-existent country, then mysteriously vanished. But this is the reworking of an old urban legend, and the images come from a reality TV show.
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Myanmar scam cities booming despite crackdown -- using Musk's Starlink They said they had smashed them. But fraud factories in Myanmar blamed for scamming Chinese and American victims out of billions of dollars are still in business and bigger than ever, an AFP investiga...

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Ukraine: French photojournalist Antoni Lallican killed by a drone in Donbas The European and International Federations of Journalists (EFJ-IFJ) extend their condolences to the family and relatives of French photojournalist Antoni ...

#Ukraine: We are deeply saddened to learn of the killing of French photojournalist Antoni Lallican by a Russian drone today. We pay tribute to the courage of Antoni and all the journalists who continue to cover the war. We demand that the perpetrators of his crime be brought to justice.

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🇦🇱 VIDEO: Albania's new AI-generated minister makes first address to parliament

The world's first AI minister said she was "not here to replace people, but to help them". Prime Minister Edi Rama said 'Diella' would be entrusted with decisions on public tenders, making them "100% corruption-free".

UK Reporter's 'Horror' As ID Stolen By Russia-backed Site A British journalist said Monday she was "horrified" to learn her photo had been "hijacked" by a website imitating a UK newspaper that spread misinformation about Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensk...

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AI ‘bikini interview’ videos flooding the Internet - Taipei Times Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

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Starved, displaced and exhausted: Inside AFP’s fight to protect its Gaza reporters “Some of our freelancers have lost 20 or 30 kilos. Their daily battle to find food and to feed their family is immense,” says Global News Director Phil Chetwynd.

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Czech film takes 'conspiracy nuts' on Ukraine war tour Two men and a woman driven by disinformation and denying the Russian invasion of Ukraine are the unlikely protagonists of a Czech documentary that will premiere this month.

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Fake AI videos of R. Kelly, pope spread cult of Burkina junta chief If you believe the viral videos online, R. Kelly and Pope Leo XIV agree on one thing -- that Burkina Faso's junta chief, Captain Ibrahim Traore, is a fantastic leader.

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Grok, is that Gaza? AI image checks mislocate news photos The photo is actually of 9-year-old Mariam Dawwas in Gaza on August 2, 2025.

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Derk Sauer, Champion of Free Press in a New Russia, Dies at 72

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Derk Sauer, Moscow Times Founder and Dutch Media Entrepreneur, Dies at 72 - The Moscow Times Derk Sauer, the Dutch media entrepreneur who founded The Moscow Times, died on Thursday at age 72, his family said in a statement.

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Disinformation catalyses anti-migrant unrest in Spain The rare anti-migrant violence that recently rocked a Spanish town demonstrated how online disinformation feeds xenophobic hate speech, which leapt from screens to real life with the support of politi...

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Holocaust AI fakes spark alarm The Facebook post shows a photo of a pretty curly-haired girl on a tricycle and says she is Hannelore Kaufmann, 13-year-old from Berlin who died in the Auschwitz concentration camp.A girl called Hanni...

Content creators, often based in South Asia, are churning out AI-generated images of made-up Holocaust victims for money, targeting Westerners' emotional reactions, researchers told AFP uk.news.yahoo.com/holocaust-ai... by @annamalpas.bsky.social

AI-powered 'nudify' apps fuel deadly wave of digital blackmail After a Kentucky teenager died by suicide this year, his parents discovered he had received threatening texts demanding $3,000 to suppress an AI-generated nude image of him.His parents told US media t...

New story from @anujchopra.bsky.social on AI-powered 'nudify' apps, with additional reporting by me and Sonia González Fernández.

Deeply concerning that these apps -- which rose to prominence targeting celebrities -- are being increasingly weaponised against children
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More than 90% of X's Community Notes -- a crowd-sourced verification system popularized by Elon Musk's platform -- are never published, a study says, highlighting major limits in its effectiveness as a debunking tool

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Emerging cross-border dynamics in Ireland's anti-migrant mobilisation Anti-migrant sentiments have united former foes on both sides of the Irish border. Northern Irish Loyalists and Irish Republicans have voiced online support for each other and crossed the Irish border...

Anti-migrant narratives are uniting longstanding foes on both sides of the Irish border, while far-right actors from overseas are seizing on the opportunity to spread dissent and polarisation 👇 www.isdglobal.org/digital_disp...

Brothers blame influencer mom's 'conspiracy theories' after sister's death Gabriel Shemirani blames his influencer mother's belief in conspiracy theories about medicine for his sister's death from cancer, after she rejected chemotherapy.

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'Make America Healthy Again' report cites nonexistent studies: authors At least four of the studies cited in a flagship White House report on children's health do not exist, authors listed in the document told AFP Thursday, casting doubt on the paper outlining Health Sec...

My team at AFP can confirm the MAHA report cites studies that do not exist.

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