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From July 26 to Aug. 11, 2024, Paris will host the Olympic Games, for the third time in history. For several months, a barrage of false claims on the high-visibility, international sporting event has spread on social media and unreliable news sites.

From fabricated media reports to content misrepresented as coming from brands or government agencies, false claims have focused on supposed terrorist threats and security risks, Paris’ alleged lack of preparedness, and the presumed lack of popularity of the Games, seemingly aiming at undermining trust in the Games and the authorities organizing them, including the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

To date, NewsGuard’s team has identified and is tracking 18 misinformation narratives relating to the 2024 Paris Olympics in 15 languages: Arabic, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish, and Turkish. The claims have spread on social media as well as on 38 unreliable news and information websites.

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NewsGuard is tracking the top false narratives about the Games and the websites that are spreading them. Click on the above link for all the details.

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