Photo: Vote discrepancy in TV broadcast is not evidence of fraud in French presidential elections (Image source: Flickr/Jacques Paquier)
Unique contribution: We are monitoring social media, national and international media, and fact-checking websites in order to share the fake news making the rounds this week. Don't be fooled! Edited by Angelo Paura.
The world of news is complex – and false stories and images are often widely shared on social media. Blasting News’s editorial team spots the most popular hoaxes and misleading information every week to help you discern truth from falsehood. Here are some of the most shared false claims of this week, of which none are legit.
Zelensky's daughter did not call her father a “Nazi” and “murderer of the Ukrainian people”
False claim: Social media users around the world have shared a photo of a young woman crying inside a car, alongside the claim that she is the daughter of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. According to the posts, amid the war with Russia, she fled to Poland and called her father a “Nazi” and a “murderer of the Ukrainian people.”
Truth:
Djibouti hosts a US naval base called Camp Lemonnier, the only American military facility of its kind in Africa. Amid a fragile ceasefire in the Middle East war, a clip circulating in Ethiopia sho...