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No, this is not a photo of Indian politician Rahul Gandhi with the perpetrator of a deadly suicide attack in Kashmir

AFP India Published on Tuesday 19 February 2019 at 05:50
An image that has been shared thousands of times on social media claims to show Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi alongside the perpetrator of a suicide bomb attack that killed more than 40 Indian troops in Kashmir. The image is doctored from an original taken of Gandhi in 2014 on the campaign trail in which there are no links to terrrorism.
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No, Bill Gates did not just reveal a $5 billion investment in South Africa

Tendai Dube Published on Monday 18 February 2019 at 10:51
An article shared more than 300 times on Facebook claims that billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates will be investing “another $5 billion in South Africa”. But the headline is clickbait written above text copied from a September 2018 article based on the Gates Foundation’s annual report, which does not mention any figures for investment anywhere in Africa.
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Johannes Eisele

Amazon is paying '$0' in taxes? Misleading

Douglas Gillison Published on Saturday 16 February 2019 at 01:15
A tweet by a popular US Congresswoman spotlighted a report about US tech behemoth Amazon's tax burden for the past two years. While the company paid no US federal income tax, it reported "cash taxes paid" of $1.2 billion last year and $957 million in 2017. These numbers are not broken down geographically, so it is difficult to know which government received the cash.
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No, former Nigerian president Jonathan did not say party’s VP choice was ‘monumental disaster’ on eve of election

Mayowa Tijani Published on Friday 15 February 2019 at 19:32Updated on Friday 15 February 2019 at 19:45
Around 20 posts shared dozens of times on Facebook on the eve of Nigeria’s presidential elections claim that former president Goodluck Jonathan said his party’s choice for vice-president was “a monumental disaster”. But there is no record of the event where Jonathan is alleged to have made the claim, which the ex-president has denied making.
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