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Folha de S.PauloReligion & belief

O papa Leão XIV não teceu comentários sobre o presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT), nem sobre Jair Bolsonaro (PL), durante orações ou discursos feitos após sua eleição como pontífice, ocorrida em 8 de maio. Não há registros disso na imprensa nacional e internacional e nem nos sites oficiais do Vaticano.

Publisher’s rating: Falso

The review says there are no records in national or international press of Pope Leo XIV making the alleged comments about Lula or Bolsonaro in speeches after his election. It reports that the viral posts claiming he praised Lula or cited Bolsonaro used AI narration and images.

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Presiden Prancis Macron Sembunyikan Kokain di Dalam Kereta

Publisher’s rating: Disinformasi atau hoaks

The video shows Macron, Keir Starmer and Friedrich Merz on a train to Kyiv, where a white object on the table prompted claims that Macron hid cocaine. The review identifies the object as folded tissue, not cocaine, and says the French presidency rejected the allegation.

يوب يوبWar & conflict

انتشر مؤخرًا على منصة فيسبوك مقطع فيديو يُزعم أنه يُظهر انتشارًا مكثفًا للقوات الأمنية في العاصمة اليمنية المؤقتة عدن، بزعم أنه جاء بعد الكشف عن "مخطط تخريبي" في المدينة.

Publisher’s rating: مضلل

Yoopyup found the claim misleading: the video dates to October 2021, not a recent security deployment following the alleged discovery of a sabotage plot. It documents a military operation by Support and Reinforcement Forces against the commander of Camp 20 at the time.

Deutsche Welle Fact checkTechnology & AI

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Publisher’s rating: Two studies conducted this year by the British public broadcaster BBC and the Tow Center for Digital Journalism in the United States found significant shortcomings when it comes to the ability of generative AI chatbots to accurately convey news reporting. In February, the BBC study found that "answers produced by the AI assistants contained significant inaccuracies and distorted content" produced by the organization. When it asked ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini and Perplexity to respond to questions about current news by using BBC articles as sources, it found that 51% of the chatbots' answers had "significant issues of some form." Nineteen percent of answers were found to have added their own factual errors, while 13% of quotes were either altered or not present at all in cited articles. "AI assistants cannot currently be relied upon to provide accurate news and they risk misleading the audience," said Pete Archer, director of the BBC's Generative AI Program.

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