Sophie Nicholson @sophiehnic.bsky.social
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Digital investigation, media literacy @AFP
Mostly Paris
Joined April 2009
I decided to use my lunch time to show you how easy it is to make a fake news story in 30 minutes with Veo3 (I didn't try to perfect it). First: the footage. A mayor comes with a crazy idea and people hate it: (1/10) #verification #ai
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📣Verification is crucial in the digital age and a free toolkit co-developed by AFP can help speed up the process. We’re pleased to launch an open access course for journalists to demystify the Verification Plugin, also known as InVID-WeVerify, with the support of @GoogleNewsInit
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⚠️CDC WEBSITES DELETED—Multiple CDC websites and datasets related to HIV, LGBTQ people, youth health behaviors and more have been removed after the agency was directed to comply with an executive order from President Trump by 5pm deadline. Wildest is taking down even HIV pages!
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💬 First breakout session at #NISCPH on fighting climate misinformation! @sohnic & @ivancouronne (AFP) talk about @afpfr ’s new climate reporting training. @wildflyingpanda (@europeanforest) explains how disagreements in science can make climate reporting harder and shared tools
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Today is #WorldMentalHealthDay. As digital investigators we're often not experiencing what we see online, in real life, but it can still affect many. So to keep doing the important documentation and investigative work online, here's a few practical steps you can take.👇
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AFP photojournalist Christina Assi said she felt "incredible" support as she carried the Olympic Flame outside Paris Sunday, almost a year after being gravely wounded while reporting in Lebanon. https://t.co/L7sZeemHSb
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The accidental publication of a VK Teams screenshot showing the methodology of Doppelgänger ad creators found by French researcher @P_Bouchaud and mentioned by @CraigSilverman in his excellent session on ad libraries at #GlobalFact11 @factchecknet
While skimming through tens of Doppelgänger ads recently approved by Meta, for a total reach over 200k users in France, Germany, Italy, and Poland over the past two weeks, I stumbled upon an interesting slip-up in one of their ads 👇
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Update today of our verification plugin (@InVID_EU @WeVerify @veraai_eu) v0.81. With improvements to beta tools for fact-checkers to be presented today at #GlobalFact11 in Sarajevo. ⬇️ https://t.co/ae4jFL3GVJ
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Pleased to share a new course with practical exercises for journalists and fact checkers at #globalfact11 @factchecknet, as well as new master certificates for our open access training platform
📣AFP is celebrating the 2nd birthday of its https://t.co/pJZQp2JFsq training platform open for journalists! 🎁We’re happy to offer a gift for our 20K+ users: a new module of digital investigation exercises, with the support of @GoogleNewsInit, at @factchecknet's #GlobalFact11.
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“Facts are the only anchor in our shared reality,” says @mariaressa at the opening of #globalfact11 in Sarajevo in conversation with @philchet. “It is a battle for facts.” @Poynter
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And, also out today - 𝐭𝐡𝐞 official poster for the Paris Olympics👇 It's certainly a little busy 😀 but definitely cool ❤️🇫🇷
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🧵 An Agence France-Presse investigation into a strike in southern Lebanon that killed a Reuters journalist and wounded six others, including two from AFP, points to a tank round used only by the Israeli army in the region 1/8 ➡️ https://t.co/PyXgfdm3pt
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"He could get killed because of this lie,” the father of a boy falsely claimed to be a Palestinian “crisis actor” told @AFP. My latest with @AnujChopra on the real-world harms of disinformation accusing civilians of faking their suffering in Gaza. https://t.co/R7eaZj58vA
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Months after he was discharged from hospital, his right leg amputated, Mohammed Zendiq saw his image swirling online in a vicious disinformation campaign downplaying the horrors of the Israel-Hamas...
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The information war running in parallel with the deadly conflict on the ground has seen conspiracy theorists accuse ordinary Palestinians and Israelis of being "crisis actors" –- feigning injuries and deaths to garner sympathy and demonise the other side https://t.co/xSUD4YLLjL
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With so much discussion about the use of language in the coverage of the Israel-Hamas war, I wrote this to explain @AFP 's policy over the use of the word terrorist. #Gaza #Israel
https://t.co/7G9lLgkGio
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Here’s AFP’s online course on tackling climate misinformation that I spoke about today at #NISLIS We now have 11 short online courses on the platform, in 4 languages https://t.co/LdFRXgU0Ue
@AFPFactCheck @GoogleNewsInit @ejcnet
digitalcourses.afp.com
In this course you will learn how to verify claims about climate, we will talk about "greenwashing", see what content is not verifiable, identify some types of misinformation and which sources to use.
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"Companies are way ahead of the media in how they frame their climate communication." - Tacking Greenwashing and Climate Misinformation by @ivancouronne for @AFP #NISLIS
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🏆 Well done to this year’s #AfricanFactCheckingAwards winners: Working Journalist: Moussa Ngom @LesReporterSn & Laureline Savoye @lemonde_afrique Professional Fact-Checker: James Okong'o & Mary Kulundu @AFPFactCheck Student Journalist: Papa Bocar Mbow @CESTIDAKAR
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🤖 What happens when #journalism meets #AI? Discover how to use #ChatGPT and other generative #AI tools in your #newsroom with @JCourses new free online course led by @aimeetwoee and @srhm_ca #JournalismCourses
https://t.co/zLIkoXHglt
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