Since the death of George Floyd, an African-American who lost his life during his arrest by a white police officer, on May 25 in Minneapolis (Minnesota), very many news reports have been published, in particular on social networks.
The events that are shaking this country at the moment are "extremely vulnerable to manipulation by social networks," said AFP Emerson Brooking, who works on disinformation in a research laboratory at the Atlantic Council.
Mathilde Cousin, journalist with the fact-checking service "Fake off" of 20 Minutes, returns to several allegations in recent weeks. Images, videos which arouse many reactions ... But which are sometimes false, or badly captioned.
Among them, a snapshot of men belonging to rival gangs allegedly united after the death of George Floyd, or accusation made to the American channel MSNBC of having used a viral image taken from the film "World War Z" to illustrate riots.
A video has also been widely shared in recent days. It shows a black man on the terrace handcuffed by white police before being released, commenting that the arrested man is an FBI agent. The scene was filmed in June 2019 in Rochester. The handcuffed man is not an FBI agent. The police believed they had recognized a suspect wanted for assault. When they looked at his papers, they realized they had made a mistake and released the man, said Rochester police.
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