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This image of Atletico Madrid fans holding a giant Palestinian flag is not real

Israel-Hamas Conflict, Politics, Technology

October 30, 2023 Since the start of an intense bombing campaign by Israel on the Gaza Strip in retaliation for the unprecedented attack by the Palestinian militant group Hamas on October 7, there have been numerous demonstrations in various countries related to the conflict. In this context, an image has spread on social media claiming …

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This image of queues in Greece was created using artificial intelligence

Society, Technology, Uncategorized

September 21, 2023 Heavy rains in early September 2023 caused deadly flooding in Thessaly in central Greece, leaving residents in some towns without drinking water and triggering queues for bottled water. In the wake of this natural disaster, posts on social networks shared an image generated by artificial intelligence (AI) claiming or implying that it …

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Greek TV used Croatian movie to show football fans performing Nazi salute

Society, Technology

August 17, 2023 After a Greek football fan was killed on the sidelines of a Champions League game due to be held in Athens on August 7, 2023, Greek media produced numerous stories about the hardcore supporters of the rival Croatian football club implicated in the violence. In one report, the private TV channel Skai …

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ERT did not cut funding for a Yorgos Avgeropoulos documentary in 2023; the claim is from 2019

Politics

July 31, 2023 Posts on social media in July 2023 falsely claimed that Greek public broadcaster ERT had pulled funding for a hard-hitting political and social documentary following the re-election of the centre-right New Democracy in June 2023. Replicating verbatim text that circulated in 2019 about the film “AGORA II: Chained”, the posts presented this …

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Video of a chanting crowd is from a Mexico music concert, not a protest in France

Fact Check, Society, Technology

The June 2023 killing in France of a teenager of Algerian descent by a policeman sparked days of protests and riots in several French cities. In this context, Greek social network users shared a video of thousands of people packed into a city area with audio of loud chants in Arabic. The video is presented as a gathering in response to the shooting. However, this is false. The video shows a free concert by a popular band in central Mexico City. A soundtrack of Islamic chants was added over the images.

On-air slip of the tongue by PASOK-KINAL candidate taken out of context

Politics, Uncategorized

June 15, 2023 An apparent slip of the tongue by a PASOK-KINAL election candidate during a live discussion on state television was widely shared to claim that the centre-left party was advocating for higher taxes on the middle class ahead of the June 25, 2023 vote. However, a review of the entire debate shows that …

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Javied Aslam, leading figure in the Pakistani community in Greece did not run in national elections

Politics

May 22, 2023 Javied Aslam Arain, a leading figure in the Pakistani community in Greece, did not run in the general election, contrary to false claims circulating on social media. Aslam and the centre-left party PASOK-KINAL told AFP that he was not standing for election for the party in Athens, as claimed in some online …

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Article misconstrues archaeological discovery in Spain as remnants of ‘Atlantis’

Society

May 12, 2023 The recent discovery of 5th-century BC reliefs depicting human faces at an archaeological site in southwest Spain marked a breakthrough in historians’ understanding of the ancient Iberian civilization of Tartessos. But a Greek article shared hundreds of times online has warped the discovery into myth, claiming that these sculptures are “the first …

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Magnetic African dust is not proof of chemtrails

Environment, Science, Society

April 17, 2023 Contrary to unfounded claims circulating on social media, the magnetic qualities of African dust are not proof of the existence of chemtrails. Dust from the Sahara desert, which is often detected in Greece and elsewhere in southern European, naturally contains minerals with magnetic qualities. But these magnetic properties are not proof that …

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