Peris Gachahi

Happy International Fact-Checking Day! Check out these highlights from our digital investigation impact report👇 #FactsMatter #FactCheckingDay

@YamboMike @AFP @AFPFactCheck Karibu sana Mike! 🎉

*Some personal news After three years at Nation Media Group, I’ve joined @AFP for @AFPFactCheck global digital investigations team. I’m deeply grateful to Nation for the opportunity and space to help pioneer open-source investigative journalism through #NationForensicUnit. I’m proud of what we built, and I look forward to seeing this work continue to grow. At a time when impactful public-interest journalism feels more important than ever, I’m excited to keep reporting from across the continent.

⚽ L’équipe de football du Maroc a-t-elle bénéficié d'une impunité historique lors de la CAN 1976 ? Des posts prétendent à tort que les joueurs marocains auraient cette année-là quitté le terrain lors de la finale contre la Guinée, sans pourtant perdre leur titre de champions 1/5

🇮🇳 A clip showing India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi declaring war on Pakistan and Iran is doctored. The original footage shows his NXT Summit 2026 address, where he made no such remarks. Read more: u.afp.com/ModiIran

🇳🇬 A video shared online claiming to show Nigerians rallying for Israel and the US in the war against Iran is being misrepresented. The footage dates to a 2018 Biafra protest. Read more: u.afp.com/BiafraRally

🇱🇧 🇨🇮 Une virulente campagne de dénigrement numérique à l'encontre des Libanais de Côte d'Ivoire, en cours depuis quelques mois, s’est encore intensifiée avec la #guerre au Moyen-Orient 1/4

🇧🇫 🪖 🇮🇷 La télévision du Burkina Faso annonce l'envoi de soldats burkinabè en Iran ? ❌ Faux, le son de ce journal télévisé a été trafiqué, sans doute par IA. La chaine nationale RTB a par ailleurs publié un démenti officiel ⤵️ u.afp.com/SLbt

👥 Des internautes affirment que des vidéos récentes de Benjamin Netanyahu auraient été générées par intelligence artificielle, prouvant selon eux que le Premier ministre israélien aurait été tué par l'Iran. Mais ces rumeurs sont infondées, comme l'a vérifié l'AFP ⤵️ 1/5

Iran has fired countless missiles at Israel and other targets in the Middle East, but an image of a warhead with a Persian inscription honouring Jeffrey Epstein's victims is fake. The words were digitally added to an AI rendering of a Khorramshahr missile u.afp.com/SLHf

🇰🇪 Cars left stranded on Kenyan island as Middle East war blocks delivery Bound for Dubai, but stranded on the Kenyan island of Lamu, thousands of high-end cars are sitting in warehouses and parking lots, blocked from their destination by the war the Middle East.

#BREAKING G7 demands 'immediate and unconditional' halt to Iran attacks: statement

🛢️ The US Treasury says it temporarily lifted sanctions on Iranian oil already loaded onto vessels, in Washington's latest step to stem a supply crisis over the Middle East war. ➡️ u.afp.com/SLRp

Two minutes on Donald Trump's mixed messages on the war with Iran. Produced by Katerina Karelli. The BBC News live page on the war is here: bbc.co.uk/news/live/ce84…

Me: *Very gently pushes shower handle 1cm to the left* The shower:

In the heat of the Middle East war, images purportedly showing cars on fire in Tel Aviv following an Iranian strike have been shared online. But the images are actually from anti-government protests held in Iran in January. Read more: u.afp.com/BurningCars

🇰🇪 As Nairobi reels from floods that have killed at least 70 people, AI-generated visuals are circulating online, falsely claiming to show the devastation. Read more: u.afp.com/Nairobi

This video was said to show a drone hitting a hotel housing US officers in Bahrain. But we found the footage corresponds to a Russian attack on a residential building in Kyiv in January u.afp.com/SLeY

AI fakes showing captured US soldiers and burning embassies are flooding X during the Middle East war. Even after the platform announced a crackdown, AFP found the content is still spreading, often from premium accounts with blue checkmarks u.afp.com/SLPk

AI fakes about Iran-US war. AI-created videos circulating on X depict American soldiers captured by Iran, an Israeli city in ruins, and US embassies ablaze -- a surge of lifelike deepfakes despite a policy crackdown to curb wartime disinformation u.afp.com/SLY6

I hope that if there's one thing that this Iran conflict and the explosion of online misinformation about it has laid bare for most people is the significance of content verification and fact-checking in the digital age. AI cannot replace human verification, at least not yet.