Skip to main content
Home
Fact Check
  • Search
  • Contact
Navigation principale
  • Home
  • About AFP
  • How we work
  • Editorial & ethical standards
  • Fact-Checking Stylebook
  • Meet the team
  • Training
  • Subscribe
  • Contact
  • Corrections
  • FactCRICIS

Choose language

  • Search
  • Contact

Science

Israeli-Palestinian conflict War in Ukraine US politics Climate Vaccines
Africa Asia-Pacific Europe Latin America Middle East North America
Environment
Health
Politics
Conflicts
Image
Published on 02/11/2021

This picture of Chinese astronauts having lunch has been doctored

Image
Published on 30/10/2021

Facebook posts share misleading 'tip' to check whether bananas have been 'chemically ripened'

Image
Published on 28/10/2021

There will not be a blue moon on Halloween 2021

Image
Published on 26/10/2021

The images feature sand castles created by an artist, not natural formations

Image
Covid-19
Published on 25/10/2021

Posts misleadingly claim anti-viral drug could replace Covid-19 vaccines

Image
Climate
Published on 22/10/2021

Misleading posts claim record Antarctica cold disproves global warming

Image
Published on 11/10/2021

Facebook posts mislead on historical connections between four former presidents

Image
Published on 07/10/2021

Century-old photo shows Tibetan nuns in Bhutan, not African settlers in Japan

Image
Covid-19
Published on 30/09/2021

Flawed Canadian study cited as evidence Covid-19 shots are dangerous

Image
Published on 30/09/2021

Photo does not show a young Louis Armstrong

Image
Published on 29/09/2021

Claim that stink beans can treat cancer and muscle pains is 'not scientifically proven', experts say

Image
Published on 28/09/2021

Seawater is salty not 'because of sperm from blue whales'

Image
Vaccines
Published on 24/09/2021

Vaccine certificate shared online is from 1906, historians say

Image
Published on 22/09/2021

The image shows a digital artwork created using 3D fractal software

Image
Published on 16/09/2021

Posts falsely claim India's space research agency 'developed' global radio streaming platform

Image
Published on 14/09/2021

Artwork photo misused anew in misleading posts about gene research in Japan

Image
Published on 09/09/2021

Dental experts do not recommmend drinking pineapple juice before tooth extraction

Image
Covid-19
Published on 08/09/2021

Study did not say vaccinated Covid-19 patients carry higher viral load

Image
Covid-19
Published on 30/08/2021

This video of robots 'attacking' shoppers is computer-generated

Image
Afghanistan
Published on 30/08/2021

Posts warning of 'imminent attack in Afghanistan valley' share old image of Pakistan village

Image
Published on 26/08/2021

Collage uses fake photos to illustrate a US sideshow performer from the 1800s

Image
Afghanistan
Published on 18/08/2021

This photo has circulated in reports about Iran in the 1970s

Image
Published on 18/08/2021

Image collage does not show 'flower of the Holy Spirit'

Image
Published on 17/08/2021

The sewing machine was invented centuries after Prophet Mohammed

Image
Published on 09/08/2021

This image shows carbon nanotube artwork, not a cross-section of DNA

Image
Covid-19
Published on 05/08/2021

Experts deny claims that taking painkillers after Covid-19 vaccine causes death

Image
Published on 04/08/2021

This black-and-white picture shows an African slave trader, not an 18th-century Indian ruler

Image
Published on 30/07/2021

This footage is from a video game

  • See more