Jocelyne Zablit

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.

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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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Bill Gates did not say in this interview that Covid vaccines were ‘dangerous’

COVID-19, Health, Science, Society, Technology

April 27, 2023 In a 2022 video interview, Bill Gates praised Covid-19 vaccines while admitting they were not perfect in entirely blocking the transmission of the virus and in the limited duration of their effect. A Greek website shared a clip from this video in April 2023 with the false claim that it showed him

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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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