Tag: Fact-checking Fake Off
Can Valérie Pécresse suspend subsidies to the establishment, as she announced?
Should we see a desire to influence the direction of Sciences Po? Valérie Pécresse, LR president of the Ile-de-France region, announced on Monday the “suspension” of her region’s subsidies to…
Deliberate cloud seeding causing floods? It’s ‘extremely unlikely’
Several Gulf countries experienced torrential rains at the start of the week. The city of Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, is particularly affected, giving rise to impressive images. Since…
No, a famous pianist and a ballerina were not prevented from performing at an SNCF station
“It’s art that we’re stifling! » This is essentially what many Internet users have denounced while watching a video that has gone viral in recent days. On this one, we…
Why fake news will be easier and easier to detect on Google
This Tuesday was International Fact-Checking Day. The opportunity for Google to announce new upcoming features to fight against false information. Like X and its “community notes”, from 2022, the search…
Yes, less than one in two job seekers is compensated by unemployment insurance
He wants the measures to come into force “in the fall”. Reduction in the duration of compensation, reduction in the amount of benefits… Gabriel Attal mentioned several avenues on Wednesday…
Is the captain of the boat really Ukrainian? Mistrust
False information and rumors are numerous and particularly viral since the collision between a container ship and the Francis-Scott-Key bridge in Baltimore on Tuesday around 1:30 a.m. local time. Among…
“It is not responsible for the media to allow false information to spread with anti-vaccine speeches”
A cry of alarm. Around thirty learned societies and medical unions, representing several thousand health professionals, have signed a platform in The Express this January 29 to “put an end…
The price of milk paid by Lactalis, a source of misinformation on social networks
The actions of farmers in front of Lactalis group factories are widely followed on social networks, notably that of January 23 in Haute-Saône. There departmental federation of farmers’ unions wanted…
The link between turbocancers and anti-Covid vaccine “is based on nothing”
This is a persistent misinformation in anti-vaccine circles and is spreading on TV sets. “Turbocancers would be caused by messenger RNA vaccines”, this is the assertion that has been flourishing…
What is this meeting to prepare for “disease X”?
It didn’t take more than a mysterious letter to arouse fantasies, as the World Economic Forum in Davos opens this Monday. In two days, Wednesday, a meeting is planned there…