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We’ve updated our roundup of fact checks covering the protests in France to include more edited photos and AI-generated imagery we’ve seen circulating online. fullfact.org/world/france-un…
Pink Panther has found himself at the centre of the French protests after imagery of a person dressed as him went viral.
But the pictures and videos we found were actually AI-generated and there are visual clues they’re not real.
Here’s how we know
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After protests and violent incidents in France in recent days, we’re seeing lots of old and fake videos and images circulating online.
Read our roundup to help you verify what’s real 👇
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Last month Andy Burnham announced plans to change the state pension triple lock mechanism and said that the government would legislate for this “during this Parliament”.
We’re now tracking progress on this pledge via our Government Tracker 👇
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A video of ships filmed from a plane in Bangladesh is being shared with false claims it shows the Strait of Hormuz.
Here’s how we geolocated the footage👇
fullfact.org/world/viral-cli…
Google has updated its SynthID Detector after a Full Fact investigation found the tool said apparently real images shared by politicians were “made or edited” with AI.
It now says it’s ‘Unsure’ about the images.
Our investigation 👇
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At #PMQs earlier Andy Burnham said that yesterday Britain saw “unemployment down and improved labour market statistics”.
See exactly what’s happened in our explainer with the latest figures.
fullfact.org/economy/employm…
Pensioner poverty has halved in the past 30 years, as the shadow work and pensions secretary @Helen_Whately claimed. But how much of this was down to the Conservatives?
Almost all the fall she’s talking about happened under Labour.
fullfact.org/economy/helen-w…
Following the government’s decision to green light production at the Jackdaw gas field, we’ve updated our Government Tracker page monitoring Labour’s pledge to not issue new exploration licences. (1/2)
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Have you seen this image of an elderly French couple in their underwear being shared online with claims they were stripped and robbed during the recent riots in France?
It’s AI and there are no official reports confirming the attack.
fullfact.org/world/photo-eld…
You might have seen a video of Palestinian and Jordanian flags being flown from the top of the Eiffel Tower recently.
But, this clip was generated with AI and there’s no evidence it shows a real event.
Read our check here 👇
fullfact.org/world/palestine…
A dramatic image of protesters throwing fireworks and waving Palestinian flags outside the Eiffel Tower has been shared widely online.
But it’s not real—it was made with AI.
Read our fact check to find out how we can tell 👇
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After Andy Burnham’s conference speech last month provided further detail on what the government’s proposed National Care Service will entail, we’ve updated our Government Tracker page monitoring progress on this pledge 👇
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A video of police with shields and batons is being shared with captions suggesting it shows the recent student protests in France.
But this video has been online since at least March 2023.
fullfact.org/world/2023-vide…
For 10 weeks, we asked five AI chatbots the same questions every day.
None repeated the core misinformation they were tested on, but they reported proposals as law, quoted outdated figures and gave different answers on different days.
Our first report: fullfact.org/ai-benchmark/re…
ALT Millions of people increasingly rely on AI chatbots for timely responses to factual questions. Our findings show the answer comes back in the same confident tone whether it is correct, out of date, or describes something that has not yet happened. That is the real problem here. These models are not necessarily peddling misinformation, but their responses can be incomplete, lack context or be poorly sourced. The bosses of these AI companies say they are happy for others to mark their homework, so we have started doing it for them.
A video of a woman being dragged away by uniformed men has been shared with the false claim that it shows forced military conscription in Ukraine.
This isn’t the case—the clip actually shows a scene from an environmental protest in Kyiv.
This is how we know 👇
fullfact.org/conflict/video-…
A compilation video claiming to show clips of President Zelenskyy belly dancing has been shared online again and includes AI deepfakes.
fullfact.org/world/zelenskyy…
Home Office minister Jo White claimed yesterday that the number of hotels housing asylum seekers “has fallen from 400 when we came into power to fewer than 160.”
That’s not correct. The number of hotels in use when Labour took office was 213.
fullfact.org/immigration/jo-…
A fake image supposedly showing a tiger attack at Yorkshire Wildlife Park is circulating online.
A man died as a result of the incident, and police asked people not to share footage of the attack - but this image isn’t real and was made with AI.
fullfact.org/culture-and-soc…
