Bill McCarthy
@billdmccarthy
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Senior digital investigation journalist covering disinformation @AFP @AFPFactCheck • Formerly @PolitiFact • @DukeU alum • “The internet folks” - Stephen Colbert
Washington, DC
Joined May 2017
“Look, here's burial sites all over the place. These are all white farmers that are being buried,” Donald Trump said during today’s meeting with South Africa’s president. The image he was holding up, however, is from the Democratic Republic of Congo. https://t.co/YddTtT9lwJ
barrons.com
US President Donald Trump brandished a stack of printed articles at the White House Wednesday that he claimed documented a genocide taking place against white people in South Africa.
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The United States announced a 10th strike against an alleged drug-smuggling boat today. The strikes have left at least 43 people dead, but Washington has yet to release evidence to support its assertions that its targets are traffickers.
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Steve Bannon says in an interview with the Economist that “there’s a plan” for Donald Trump to remain president in 2028 despite the 22nd amendment to the US Constitution limiting presidents to two terms.
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“The president has placed proponents of his false claims into government jobs while dismantling systems built to secure voting, raising fears that he aims to seize authority over elections ahead of next year’s midterms.”
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The president has placed proponents of his false claims into government jobs while dismantling systems built to secure voting, raising fears that he aims to seize authority over elections ahead of...
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The Trump White House is now displaying a "major events timeline" on its official "about the White House" webpage that includes the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal and a photo of Hunter Biden smoking alongside entries about the building's history.
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An AFP investigation caught the White House misrepresenting outdated footage from Florida, Texas, South Carolina, Nebraska and other states in a video it claimed showed "Chicago is in chaos." Our new YouTube short shows a side-by-side of the deception:
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White House's Chicago "chaos" video uses footage from other cities. Hear from AFP's @billdmccarthy about how he identified the outdated footage from states, including Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska
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An AFP investigation caught the White House misrepresenting outdated footage from Florida, Texas, South Carolina, Nebraska and other states in a video it claimed showed "Chicago is in chaos." Our new YouTube short shows a side-by-side of the deception:
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@AFP Full fact-check:
NEW: A dramatic voiceover video the White House and Donald Trump shared last week claiming to show "chaos" in Chicago is littered with outdated footage from Florida, Texas, South Carolina, Nebraska, California and Arizona, an AFP investigation found. https://t.co/AzfiomgKrf
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New video @AFP: I explained how we caught US President Donald Trump's White House using outdated footage from Florida, Texas, South Carolina, Nebraska and other states in a video that it claimed showed "Chicago is in chaos." https://t.co/Q1zcW74Kct
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@AFPFactCheck An erroneous, AI-generated X Community Note led a flurry of right-wing accounts -- and eventually US Senator Ted Cruz -- to falsely claim that aerial footage MSNBC aired of the "No Kings" protest in Boston was a misrepresented visual from years earlier.
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A flurry of conservative commentators and US Senator Ted Cruz accused Democrats of passing off old footage from a 2017 rally as the crowd that attended a "No Kings" protest in opposition to President...
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My latest @AFPFactCheck: Ted Cruz falsely accused Democrats of passing off footage from 2017 as the crowd that attended a "No Kings" protest. But the video aired by MSNBC did, in fact, show people who swarmed Boston Common for the October 18 rally. https://t.co/av3Ds2LZUB
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A flurry of conservative commentators and US Senator Ted Cruz accused Democrats of passing off old footage from a 2017 rally as the crowd that attended a "No Kings" protest in opposition to President...
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🇺🇸 VIDEO Heavy machinery tears down section of White House for new ballroom Work crews have started tearing down part of the East Wing of the White House to build US President Donald Trump’s planned ballroom. #AFPVertical
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This video keeps spreading with false claims that it shows ICE agents arresting a 6-year-old girl. The woman was in fact a 27-year-old who was briefly detained in Washington state in April after police saw her cross a busy intersection in moving traffic. https://t.co/eEiXzidxlK
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Baseball fans are facing an onslaught of phony AI content on Facebook, pushed by a clickbait network in Southeast Asia capitalizing on interest in the lead-up to the sport's World Series, an AFP investigation has found. From @MarishaGSherry:
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Baseball fans are facing an onslaught of phony AI content on Facebook, pushed by a clickbait network in Southeast Asia capitalizing on interest in the lead-up to the sport's World Series, an AFP...
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ALERT: Pardoned Capitol rioter charged with threatening to murder Hakeem Jeffries at NYC event this week https://t.co/HUSOrNJkoa
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A pardoned Capitol rioter was arrested last weekend for allegedly threatening to kill the top House Democrat.
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My latest @PolitiFact w/ @reetuquero: Ted Cruz said MSNBC footage was from 2017, not a ‘No Kings’ rally in Boston. That’s False. https://t.co/aWiRbmWZSV
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SCOOP: Paul Ingrassia, Trump’s pick to lead the Office of Special Counsel, told a group of Republicans in a text chain the MLK Jr. holiday should be “tossed into the seventh circle of hell” and said he has “a Nazi streak,” according to a text chat I saw.
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Paul Ingrassia’s bid to lead a whistleblower agency is set for a Senate confirmation hearing Thursday.
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#USA🇺🇸: AFP investigation revealed that a video shared by the White House and President Trump showing ICE agents reacting to "chaos" in Chicago is made up of outdated footage filmed outside the city. A reminder of fact-checking’s value. Great job @AFP
https://t.co/z8iYlqcQzX
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A dramatic voiceover video shared by the White House and US President Donald Trump claims to show immigration agents responding to the "mess" in Chicago as the Republican seeks to justify deploying...
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The video of the "No Kings" protest in Boston, which was shared by Elizabeth Warren and led to this response by Ted Cruz, is not from 2017. It was filmed during the protest in Boston on 18 October and can be corroborated with other videos of the same Boston rally on Saturday.
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This appears to be the photo used to generate the AI video US President Donald Trump posted that portrays hims wearing a crown and piloting a fighter jet that dumps feces on influencer Harry Sisson and other Americans who were protesting him in New York City.
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