Misleading: These videos have nothing to do with recent wildfires or climate change
Annie Lab looked into two video clips claiming wildfires are manmade, which also implied climate change is not real.
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Author: Prudence Lam 林采妍, Catherine Chan 陳雅琳 and Priscilla Chan 陳琬琳
False: Japan’s ex-PM Abe did not ‘answer a phone call’ in ambulance
Shinzo Abe collapsed shortly after he was shot and fell unconscious. The misleading social media posts in Chinese appear to stem from inaccurate translations of a local news report.
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Misleading: Image sequence reversed to make watermelons appear stolen from Abe’s memorial
Annie Lab reached out to a journalist who also took photos of the roadside memorial around the same time. The two slices of watermelon were placed later than the flowers on the ground.
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Misleading: Although CO2 facilitates plant growth, excessive amount could be harmful as well
Experts say increased carbon dioxide impacts the natural ecosystem as a whole. The science of climate change has advanced since the 1920 experiment mentioned in the misleading tweet.
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Misleading: ATMs in Shanghai were never suspended over fears of virus-carrying banknotes
Banking services in Shanghai were suspended during the lockdown from mid-March to the end of May 2022. In June, they were fully in operation.
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False: This headshot does not show a ‘19-year-old’ Tangshan victim
The image was uploaded on a photo-sharing platform in 2019. The blogger refuted the rumor on her social media account.
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