Hailey Jo

2 weeks ago | malaysia.news.yahoo.com | Hailey Jo

Hailey JO / AFP South Korea9 April 2025 at 11:07 pm·4-min readUsing AirPods is not akin to "wearing a mini microwave" next to the brain, engineering professors told AFP, branding such claims circulating online as nonsensical. While Apple's wireless earbuds emit similar frequencies to microwave ovens, they do so at significantly lower power levels, experts said. "AirPods = Baking your brain in a mini microwave oven," reads the Korean-language caption of an X video posted on March 3, 2025.

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Hailey Jo

As South Korea grappled with multiple wildfires in March 2025, images were shared in social media posts that falsely claimed they showed firefighters exhausted from containing the blazes. The images are inconsistent with photos taken of firefighters during the unprecedented wildfires in the country’s southeast, and contain visual artefacts that an expert told AFP are signs of AI generation.

3 weeks ago | malaysia.news.yahoo.com | Hailey Jo

Hailey JO / AFP South Korea30 March 2025 at 7:57 pm·3-min readAs South Korea battled unprecedented wildfires that ravaged large areas of the country's southeast in March 2025, a video was shared in social media posts that falsely claimed it showed a Chinese woman starting one of the deadly blazes. The video has in fact circulated since October 2022 in reports about a woman being arrested on suspicion of arson at an ecopark in Busan.

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Hailey Jo

As deadly wildfires raged across South Korea's southeast, social media posts shared a fabricated news report alongside unsubstantiated claims that one of the blazes was deliberately started by a Chinese exchange student. The purported screenshot was created by combining two authentic but unrelated articles from the Herald Business newspaper. A screenshot of the supposed news report spread March 24, 2025 on Facebook as multiple wildfires burned in South Korea's southeast (archived link).

4 weeks ago | larepubliquedespyrenees.fr | Hailey Jo

Dans tout le sud-est du pays, les autorités s’efforcent de déplacer des objets historiques inestimables et de protéger les sites classés contre les incendies qui ont fait 24 morts et ravagé des milliers d’hectares de forêt.