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2024年12月17日 · AFP Fact Check is a department within Agence France-Presse (AFP), a multi-lingual, multicultural news agency whose mission is to provide accurate, balanced and impartial coverage of news wherever and whenever it happens in the world on a continuous basis.
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AFP Fact Check is a department within Agence France-Presse (AFP), a multi-lingual, multicultural news agency whose mission is to provide accurate, balanced and impartial coverage of news wherever and whenever it happens in the world on a continuous basis.. As guaranteed by its founding statute, AFP speaks with an independent voice free from political, commercial or ideological influence.
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Posts misrepresent progress of EV charging network under Biden
2024年12月13日 · A 2021 federal infrastructure bill allocated funds to build a network of electric vehicle charging points across the United States by 2030. But social media claims that the Biden administration spent $7.5 billion for just eight stations are false; after a slow rollout, 37 stations across 13 states are currently in operation, with hundreds …
Vaccine critics misrepresent US appeals court ruling over Covid-19 ...
2024年6月11日 · Vaccine skeptics are claiming a US federal appeals court ruled in June 2024 that Covid-19 shots are not actual vaccines, undermining years of public health guidance. This is false; the panel decided a lawsuit over a school district's immunization requirements should not have been dismissed, but legal experts say it did not endorse or even evaluate the plaintiffs' allegations about the ...
Misinformation circulates on failed US immigration reform …
2024年2月8日 · A bipartisan package that included stringent domestic border security measures failed in the US Senate in early February. Republican representatives in the House pushed claims it would have allowed 5,000 migrants to enter the country illegally every day, but the sponsoring lawmakers and an expert said that distorted the proposal -- which aimed to expand the executive branch's deportation ...
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Covid vaccine misinformation resurfaces after China's winter surge …
2024年1月5日 · Social media posts have falsely claimed that children vaccinated for Covid-19 in China were more vulnerable to a surge in respiratory illnesses last winter. Health experts and public health authorities told AFP that there was no evidence to support the claim, nor was there evidence that Covid-19 vaccination weakens a person's immunity to other viruses. They stressed Covid vaccines are safe and ...