Misleading
Tuesday 21 May 2024
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BreakThrough News
Media outlet
The story at this URL is undergoing further editing.
Read more...U.S. officials say that the United States is continuing talks with Nigerien officials, has not withdrawn any of U.S. military personnel from Niger and does not rule out a continued U.S. military presence there. -
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Russian Embassy in South Africa
“With all that, Zelenskyy regime will soon be provided with additional $61B financial aid from the U.S. Combating corruption and human rights violations, Western style."
Read more...The U.S. helps Ukraine defend itself from the Russian aggression. Washington is also actively assisting Kyiv’s efforts in developing democratic governance and bolstering civil society. -
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Paul Kagame
,Rwandan president
“…. Why are we being accused of supporting M23. ... For those accusing us, actually, I should accuse them of not supporting M23 because it is as if they agree with the injustice that is being done to this community.’’
Read more...Kagame is condoning and supporting a group that stands accused of serious human rights violations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The U.S. and the U.N., both of which have sanctioned the M23 militants, have accused Kagame’s government of supporting the group. -
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Olexander Scherba
Ukrainian diplomat, former ambassador to Austria
“In #russia, a bridge near Smolensk falls on a strategically important railway. Sad. “#StandWithUkraine #RussiaIsCollapsing”
Read more...While a train did collapse in western Russia on April 8, footage being widely shared on X is from a 2018 incident. -
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Bayo Onanuga
special adviser to the Nigerian president
“Nigeria is safe… It’s one of the safest countries in the world… [r]elatively safer [compared to South Africa and the United States], because I am in Abuja now, I’m safe. I go to my town, I’m safe. I go to Lagos, I’m safe.”
Read more...The Global Terrorism Index ranks Nigeria eighth among the ten countries most impacted by terrorism, while, according to the Global Organized Crime Index, Nigeria has the world’s sixth highest criminality rate, far worse than the U.S., which is ranked 67th. -
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RIA Novosti
Russian state news agency
"Peskov, commenting on the U.N. report on the torture of Russian prisoners of war in Ukraine, said that this is not news to Moscow, all crimes of the Kyiv regime are documented."
Read more...RIA Novosti distorted the U.N. report on the human rights situation in Ukraine, covering only alleged violations by Kyiv while omitting the bulk of the report, which focused on violations by Moscow. -
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Alex_Oloyede2
Blue-checked X user
“BREAKING: Possible Sea Confrontation between Russia and NATO…”
Read more...Verified X user pushes old photo of Russian military parade, and alarmist claim, to mislead followers about routine Russian naval exercises in the Red Sea. -
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Sputnik News Agency
“On March 24, 1999, Western nations started bombing the city of Belgrade, the capital of Yugoslavia, under the far-fetched pretext of ‘protecting’ Kosovars.”
Read more...While the roots of the Kosovo war are complicated, and atrocities were committed by both sides, the evidence shows forced displacement, and the targeted killing of Kosovo Albanians, preceded the 1999 NATO intervention. -
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Simplice Sarandji,
President, Central African National Assembly
“Thanks to Russian security support, ‘Peace returns to the Central African Republic.”
Read more...Hostilities in Central African Republic (CAR) are ongoing, with some 10,000 children fighting in armed conflicts among various rebel groups. Russia’s involvement with CAR’s leadership is replete with corruption, misappropriation of natural resources, mass violence and human rights abuses. -
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Maria Zakharova
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman
“The oh-so 'peaceful' Iceland is thus trying to keep up with its senior allies in sponsoring Ukrainian Nazis.”
Read more...Iceland, a nation with no military, is helping Ukraine defend itself against Russian aggression, not “sponsoring Ukrainian Nazis.” -
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Vladimir Putin
Russian President
"People are dying in US prisons too, aren’t they?”.
Source: TASS, March 17, 2024Read more...The issue is not that people die while incarcerated, but why Navalny and so many other Kremlin critics end up in prison or dead. -
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African Hub
X content creator
‘’It seems having a passport and proper documentation at the airport makes people appear [more] suspicious than those crossing in millions on the borders without passports or any sought (sic) of documentation.’’
Read more...The video shows a foreign national with fake ID and invalid travel documents being questioned by U.S. Customs and Border Protection personnel.
