AFP Fact Check 🔎 · Oct 23, 2026 · 8:30 PM UTC

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🇺🇸🗳️ Cook County, Illinois targeted with unsubstantiated claims of 'rigged' voting machines u.afp.com/Syku

ALT Voters check in at an early voting polling location in Wheaton, Illinois

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AFP Fact Check 🔎 · Oct 22, 2026 · 3:19 PM UTC

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Russian disinformation targets James Talarico with unfounded sexual assault claim u.afp.com/SCCp

ALT James Talarico speaks from a podium while wearing a white shirt and navy suit jacket

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AFP Fact Check 🔎 · Oct 21, 2026 · 12:34 PM UTC

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Despite stubbornly high crime rates in South Africa, claims that a video showing a foiled business robbery caught on CCTV in the country are false. The dramatic incident took place at a bakery in Mexico in 2023 u.afp.com/SCjJ

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AFP Fact Check 🔎 · Oct 20, 2026 · 9:07 PM UTC

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Albertans roundly rejected a future binding independence referendum. More ballots were cast on that issue than the other nine immigration and constitutional questions put to voters, but contrary to claims online, this is not evidence of election fraud u.afp.com/SCKG

ALT Voters leave a polling place in Edmonton, Alberta

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AFP Fact Check 🔎 · Oct 20, 2026 · 5:20 PM UTC

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⚠️ Beware of fabricated graphics that appear to show Angus Reid projecting high support for Alberta separation. The polling firm never published any data corresponding to this image u.afp.com/SCzr

ALT Screenshot of an X post with a red x across it to indicate the claim is false

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AFP Fact Check 🔎 · Oct 19, 2026 · 5:48 PM UTC

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🌀 Hurricane season: be careful of AI slop weather maps on social media

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AFP Fact Check 🔎 · Oct 19, 2026 · 5:17 PM UTC

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🇳🇬 Nigeria’s President Tinubu did not award ally Gilbert Chagoury a $7 billion port deal. Tinubu witnessed the signing of a non-binding MoU between DP World and Ogun State, not a final concession. DP World says Chagoury is not a shareholder. Read more: u.afp.com/TinubuDeal

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AFP Fact Check 🔎 · Oct 18, 2026 · 9:40 PM UTC

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US influence, AI and mistrust cloud Alberta independence vote u.afp.com/SChF

ALT A red truck flying the Alberta flag circles a separatist event in Medicine Hat, southwestern Alberta

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AFP Fact Check 🔎 · Oct 16, 2026 · 4:01 PM UTC

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🇪🇹 Old clips of Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed are being misrepresented as recent visits to Tigray amid the latest conflict. One was filmed in Amhara in 2021, the other at a cultural event in Addis Ababa in 2019. Read more: u.afp.com/AbiyMekelle

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AFP Fact Check 🔎 · Oct 14, 2026 · 9:02 PM UTC

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🗳️ Recycled misleading claims stoke election concerns ahead of Alberta referendum u.afp.com/SCdC

ALT Separatists waves the Alberta flag by the roadside during an event advocating for Alberta's separation from Canada in Dunmore

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