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Australia
Joined September 2019
An image claiming to show an older couple in their underwear after being stripped and robbed by French rioters is an AI-generated fake. bit.ly/4Boegsg
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Labor's health minister has repeatedly claimed the coalition hiked the tobacco excise and pocketed the revenue without spending more on enforcement, but that's not correct. bit.ly/4z7UPCI
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False claims about the HPV vaccine are circulating online after the Papua New Guinea government launched a national immunisation program to tackle cervical cancer. bit.ly/4zFSyhB
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A Facebook video appears to show a group of Muslim men praying on a public street in Australia, but it's actually AI-generated. bit.ly/3WrkVBP
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A network of Vietnamese-run Facebook pages continues to proliferate, spreading disinformation about Australian politicians and media figures. bit.ly/4spu6yZ
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A candidate seeking votes in next month's NZ election claims nearly 60,000 Indian migrants arrive in the country each year, but the figure is far higher than the actual number. bit.ly/4dI26QN
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A speech by a UN human rights commissioner is being twisted to falsely claim Australia is investigating anyone who served in the Israeli military in Gaza. aap.com.au/factcheck/false-c…
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A Facebook page run from Sri Lanka is posting AI-generated images purporting to show real photos from the scene of breaking news events. bit.ly/4yWz1Kc
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Claims that New Zealand Labour plans to appoint a former prime minister as the next governor-general are based on a fabricated campaign poster. bit.ly/4yiyu45
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Overseas spammers are targeting Australians with fake images purporting to show teachers threatening to quit their jobs over LGBTQI flags in schools. aap.com.au/factcheck/teacher…
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Fiji has declared a surge in HIV cases to be a national health emergency, sparking misinformation online linking the epidemic to COVID-19 vaccines. bit.ly/4yJgY9V
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Online claims that nicotine addiction is a government-manufactured myth contradict decades of established global medical research. bit.ly/3VKrGyq
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A speech by a UN human rights commissioner is being twisted to falsely claim Australia is investigating anyone who served in the Israeli military in Gaza. bit.ly/4hHp4Ko
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An image that appears to show Anthony Albanese alone on the tarmac with no welcoming party after arriving in the US is an AI fake. aap.com.au/factcheck/albanes…
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After Anthony Albanese posted a selfie with Donald Trump at the 2026 UN General Assembly, some people are falsely claiming the PM reused a photo from the previous year. bit.ly/4s1PnOL
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False claims about an online safety bill are spreading on social media after the government proposed changes to how social media platforms operate. aap.com.au/factcheck/no-gove…
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Australia is not going to tax people for having a baby, despite misleading claims in a viral social media post. bit.ly/3W97Ixn
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An image that appears to show Anthony Albanese alone on the tarmac with no welcoming party after arriving in the US is an AI fake. bit.ly/4rPGQyt
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The government is not introducing a China-style social credit system linked to digital ID as a requirement to access social media, despite online claims. bit.ly/3VkZJ06
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Facebook spammers are posting error-strewn stories of people sent to Nazi concentration camps, along with fake AI-generated photos. aap.com.au/factcheck/austral…
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