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Deutsche Welle

A video circulating on X (formerly Twitter) shows a man claiming his photo was falsely linked to the Bondi Beach attack. The clip was shared on an X account which gained over 2 million views (archived) and was widely reposted.

Publisher’s rating: DW Fact check: True The photo of this man is being misused and wrongly spread to show the alleged shooter at Bondi Beach. Social media users shared a photo of a man in a green cricket jersey, claiming he was one of the shooters. A reverse image search reveals the photo originates from the Facebook account of a man with the same name as one of the attackers. He posted: "That is me, and I am completely innocent and have no connection whatsoever to what happened. Someone is falsely using my picture, which is putting my safety, reputation, and well-being at risk." On his Facebook account, he had shared the photo showing him in the green cricket jersey. It dates back to 2019. In a viral X video he confirms that he has the same first and last name as one of the alleged attackers, but that there is no connection between him and the terror attack. A police report confirms the alleged shooters in Bondi Beach were father and son. The 24-year-old shooter suffered critical injuries and was taken to a hospital. It is therefore impossible for the man speaking in the video to be the alleged attacker. DW Fact check additionally compared photos of the alleged attacker published by international media outlets, like here and here, with the video and photo of his namesake. There are significant differences in the appearance of both men. There is no link between the man in the X video and the alleged shooter. His Facebook photo indeed has been put into the wrong context.

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మధురైలోని సుబ్రమణ్య స్వామి ఆలయం సమీపంలో దీపస్థంభంపై దీపం వెలిగించుకోవచ్చని జస్టిస్‌ స్వామినాథన్‌ ఇచ్చిన తీర్పును తిరస్కరిస్తూ ఆయనకు వ్యతిరేకంగా ప్రతిపక్ష పార్టీలతో కలిసి కాంగ్రెస్ అభిశంసన (Impeachment) నోటీసును సమర్పించింది కానీ 15 కోట్లతో పట్టుబడ్డ అలహాబాద్ హై కోర్ట్ న్యాయమూర్తి జస్టిస్ యశ్వంత్ వర్మను కేంద్రం తెలగించాలని జారీ చేసిన నోటీసులను వ్యతిరేకించింది.

Publisher’s rating: MISLEADING

Deutsche Welle

A video posted on TikTok claims that the attackers were walking on Bondi Beach before the Sunday attack. The clip shows many people walking along the beach, with two figures seen carrying bags. The post reads: "The culprits are walking on the beach before Att*ack." The video has more than 270K views.

Publisher’s rating: DW Fact check: Fake The video is fake, more specifically AI-generated. There appears to be a pattern in the placement of figures, and the umbrellas look too similar. Another clue is the shadows: discrepancies in the size and direction of shadows are visible. In the initial frames, the shadows of three figures appear to go in different directions. The background provides another clue. The video shows large trees at regular intervals, including one close to the cliff. On closer inspection, these trees follow a repeating pattern, a common AI artifact. And the trees remain almost the same in size, though at a bigger distance, where the size should normally become smaller. Comparing the clip to original images of Bondi Beach shows that the cliff is not as smooth as depicted in the video, and there are no such large trees there either. The short, eight-second clip is shot from a bird's-eye view, typical of AI-generated videos, which often use wide angles to avoid showing faces.

日本ファクトチェックセンター

御堂筋線の看板から韓国語と中国語がなくなった?

Publisher’s rating: 誤り

The image was from Namba Station, not Umeda, and the sign had already used Japanese and English only. Osaka Metro said the signs had remained in those two languages and that Korean or Chinese had not been added after April.

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