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00:30Кумен, go on a racist run after Morocco knocked his team out on penalties on 30 June.
00:35It amassed more than 3 million views and tens of thousands of shares and likes,
00:40but it was posted by an account that clearly labels itself as an AI football account.
00:44The video itself also contains a tag saying that it was artificially generated.
00:49Elsewhere, posts emerged online claiming that German fans have started a petition to ban
00:54African and Muslim players from their national team after Germany was knocked out by Paraguay
00:59on the 29th of June, also in a penalty shootout.
01:03The posts cite German news outlet Deutsche Welle as the source of the story
01:06and take particular aim at Jonathan Tarr, the centre-back who missed his penalty to send Germany
01:12out of the cup.
01:12But there's no evidence of this petition anywhere by any reputable news outlets,
01:17and there is no mention of it anywhere on Deutsche Welle's platforms.
01:21That being said, stories of racism at the World Cup are a very real phenomenon,
01:26Perhaps one of the most talked-about incidents emerging on social media is the spat between
01:31French football star Kylian Mbappé and Paraguayan senator Celeste Amarilla.
01:36She falsely claimed that he was a colonised Cameroonian trying to pass himself off as French.
01:41Mbappé hit back that Amarilla was a despicable woman who did not represent Paraguay.
01:46Indeed, the country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs itself posted on Exit that it rejected Amarilla's statements.
01:52French prosecutors are now investigating the matter.
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