Gaëlle Faure

🏆 AFP reporter Samad Uthman took home the top award for professional fact-checkers at the #AfricaFactsSummit2025, which brought together journalists and information integry experts from across the continent. Read the winning story here: u.afp.com/AIfactcheck

The self-paced course includes videos, tutorials, tips and exercises on how to use the popular plugin for analysing images and videos, extracting data and improving searches on social media. Sign up now ➡️ digitalcourses.afp.com/courses/verifi…

📣Verification is crucial in the digital age and a free toolkit co-developed by AFP can help speed up the process. We’re pleased to launch an open access course for journalists to demystify the Verification Plugin, also known as InVID-WeVerify, with the support of @GoogleNewsInit

@ninaism @AFPFactCheck Miss you already 😭

Today marks my final day as head of @AFPFactCheck's Africa unit. After five wild years fighting disinformation with an incredible team, I'll take some time off before returning to a new role within the digital investigations dept in early May 1/

@BenDoBrown I still cite this case as an example of the power of visual investigations when I teach in journalism schools. Thank you for leading the way!

The case is extremely haunting, and one that still sits with me to this day, but its indirect impact is that it inspired a wave of researchers to use these techniques for more accountability work to answer Where, When, What and Who. ijnet.org/en/story/bbc-t…

Six years ago, when I was with BBC Africa Eye, we published this open source investigation into a viral video showing Cameroonian soldiers executing two women and children. Those soldiers were since jailed for 10 years. A short sentence for such a chilling crime.

🗃📸 L’AFP ouvre sa première galerie dédiée à la #photographie avec une exposition inédite consacrée à la Libération : « Paris 1944, une semaine en août » 📅 Du 12/09 au 02/11/24 📍 9 place de la Bourse, Paris 👉 Plus d’infos : u.afp.com/5bv3 #AFP @Mission80ans @AFPphoto

🚨JOB ALERT🚨 @AFPFactCheck is hiring a Digital Investigation Journalist in Nairobi🇰🇪. Advanced OSINT skills and experience reporting on Kenya/ E. Africa are essential. 📌Fixed-term contract ✍️Deadline for applications: Sep 18 👇More info afp.com/fr/fact-checki…

VIDEO: The AFP office in Gaza, which was badly damaged by a strike on November 2, was "probably" hit by Israeli tank fire, according to an investigation by @AFP and several international media released Tuesday.

Global fact-checkers battling an ever-rising tide of #misinformation in a major #election year are buffeted by legal threats, harassment and funding shortfalls. Our @AFP report with my brilliant @AFPFactCheck colleagues yahoo.com/news/global-fa…

"...legislation in Georgia’s parliament that would require civil society and media organizations to register as “organizations pursuing the interests of a foreign power” — effectively a synonym for “foreign agent.”"

@MegClement Congratulations!! I will be preordering on day 1, cannot wait to read it!

💉 In West Africa, a growing number of women are injecting themselves with unknown substances bought at markets or online. During a weeks-long investigation, AFP uncovered the risks and scams behind these shady jabs 1/9 #AFP

🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨 AFP is hiring a Burmese speaking journalist to write about misinformation Based in Bangkok, you'll be a digital savvy reporter monitoring and fact-checking false news circulating online Apply now 👉 shorturl.at/cfnvH

⚠️ In Africa and Asia, having fair skin is often associated with higher status, privilege and beauty. In their quest to reduce the melanin in their skin, many turn to unregulated creams and skin-whitening jabs. But these can be dangerous, with the @WHO warning they pose a "global health problem". @AFP investigated some of the injections being sold in West Africa, and found they contained no bleaching agent. ➡️ u.afp.com/5fp3 by @beraud_emilie & @MarietouBa for @AFPFactCheck

💉 The largest peer-reviewed study of Covid-19 vaccine safety to date did not find the jabs are unsafe, as posts online claim. Experts say the research confirms adverse reactions are rare and pose far fewer risks than infection u.afp.com/5x2h

In Paris and around the world, #AFP staff gathered in solidarity on Wednesday with their nine colleagues in Gaza, demanding that the Israeli authorities ensure their security and allow them to leave the territory if they need to

Israeli tank fire killed Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah. Reuters spoke to government and security officials, military experts, forensic investigators, lawyers, medics and witnesses, and reviewed hours of video footage and hundreds of photos reut.rs/3GxJceA

AFP probe into October strike on journalists in Lebanon points to Israeli army | AFP youtube.com/watch?v=elb3-i…

🧵 An Agence France-Presse investigation into a strike in southern Lebanon that killed a Reuters journalist and wounded six others, including two from AFP, points to a tank round used only by the Israeli army in the region 1/8 ➡️ u.afp.com/oct13investiga…

Après le bombardement du 13 octobre, qui a tué un journaliste de Reuters et blessé 6 reporters dont 2 de l’AFP dans le sud du Liban, une enquête menée par l’AFP désigne un obus de char que l’armée israélienne est seule à posséder dans cette région. ➡️ u.afp.com/enquete13oct