Posts on Facebook and Twitter have shared a claim that newspapers in Germany must guarantee that 75 percent of their articles are factual, and that any newspaper unable to do so must instead refer to itself as a magazine. However, the claim is false. The German government, the German Press Council and media scholars told AFP that there is no such policy or regulation in the country.
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“Firefighters have now joined the farmers in Holland. This is how it is done!” says a July 10, 2022 tweet.
The infographic was shared here on Facebook on April 9, 2022, with the caption “facts that we should know”.
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A composite image of two men, one in military uniform, was shared in a Singapore-based Telegram group here on May 27, 2022.
“Be informed before using #ganja to look after your health,” reads a Thai-language Facebook post from June 11, 2022, shared over a hundred times.
“Justin Bieber: ‘The vaccine ruined my life,'” says the headline of a June 11, 2022 article from a website called the Vancouver Times.
Posts shared more than 1,000 times on Facebook claim that Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari died and was replaced by a Sudanese body double. AFP Fact Check has repeatedly debunked rumours of Buhari’s demise – often spread by supporters of a separatist movement in southeast Nigeria as part of their secession campaign. The latest claim circulating online is attributed to a Nigerian senator and member of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). But AFP Fact Check found no public trace of him making any such comments and the senator himself has rejected the allegation.
Copyright RTL / CLT-UFA S.A. Author(s): RTL Lëtzebuerg © RTL A chain of posts about the character “Huggy Wuggy” is…