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Aligns Laws: California is considering a bill that will send children as young as 12 years old to group homes without the parent or guardian permission allows minors gender affirming care ab665 Aligns LawsIs California considering a bill that will send children "as young as 12" to be sent "to group homes without the parents permission," potentially allowing minors to receive gender-affirming medical or surgical care? No, that's not true: AB665 is a proposed bill to alig (Source: Lead Stories)

False: Demanding ransom is accepted in Buddhism. A politician in Sri Lanka who was convicted of extorting money from a businessman has been misquoted as saying that extortion "is not a violation of Buddhist principles" in a fabricated news graphic circulating on Facebook. The original news graphic quotes Prasanna Ranatunga speaking on an unrelated issue. An academic told AFP the posts feature a Buddhist verse about offering beverages, not about extortion. (Source: Agence France-Presse - AFP)

Misleading: Genuine images of Mayon volcano's eruption in 2023 Images that appear to show the Philippines' Mount Mayon spraying a tall fountain of lava in the air has been shared tens of thousands of times online as the volatile volcano spewed ash and rocks in June 2023. The images have been generated using an artificial intelligence tool and do not reflect Mayon's activity as of June 22, a researcher for the agency that monitors the archipelago's volcanoes told AFP. (Source: Agence France-Presse - AFP)

Flase: Video shows Biparjoy cyclone footage from India A video of a town devastated by flooding has been viewed hundreds of times alongside social media posts that falsely claim it shows the destruction caused by Cyclone Biparjoy after it hit coastal areas of Pakistan and India in June 2023. The video has circulated alongside reports of massive flooding after heavy rains in September 2021. (Source: Agence France-Presse - AFP)

False: Video of crowd booing suspended Nigerian central bank chief Posts have been shared on social media along with a video purportedly showing the suspended head of Nigeria’s central bank being booed outside court. But this is false: the clip shows politician Lamidi Apapa being jeered by Labour Party supporters who accuse him of trying to take control of the party and sabotaging presidential candidate Peter Obi’s legal challenge to nullify the outcome of February’s general election. (Source: Agence France-Presse - AFP)

False: Video of Ugandan ADF rebels celebrating school massacre A video of smiling armed men walking uphill as they are cheered on by an unidentified videographer has been viewed thousands of times in online posts claiming it shows rebel Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) returning after carrying out a massacre at a Ugandan school. Ugandan authorities have blamed ADF for the attack on June 16, 2023. However, the video has been online since June 2022, a year before the school attack in which at least 42 were killed, including 37 students. (Source: Agence France-Presse - AFP)

False: An image shows a CNN news story that reported the OceanGate submersible on its way to the Titanic wreckage site was found empty. As rescuersrace against the clockto find the Titan, the lost submersible operated by OceanGate Expeditions, social media users on Wednesday shared a fabricated CNN report that falsely claimed the vessel has been found with no one inside. (Source: Associated Press - AP News)

False: Video shows China launched an artificial sun A video has been viewed millions of times after it circulated on various social media platforms alongside a false claim that it shows the launch of China's artificial sun. The clip actually shows the launch of NASA's Artemis I rocket in November 2022 at the Kennedy Space Center in the US state of Florida. (Source: Agence France-Presse - AFP)

Debunked: Guardian a...: Debunked: Guardian article doesn't say, as fake pic implies, hot June weather proves climate change (Source: TheJournal.ie)

Debunked: No evidenc...: Debunked: No evidence for claims by anti-immigrant activist of attempted abduction in Kerry (Source: TheJournal.ie)

All German Fact Checks

Unbelegt: Die nächsten Lockdowns stünden an, diesmal unter dem Vorwand des Hitzeschutzes. Als in einer Pressekonferenz, unter anderem mit Bundesgesundheitsminister Karl Lauterbach, die Rede von Notstand, von einer „Katastrophe im Gesundheitswesen“” und einer möglichen Überlastung des Gesundheitssystems die Rede war, erinnerte das Manche an die Corona-Pandemie. Der näc (Source: Correctiv)