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Author: Xinyi LI

COVID-19 False 

False: This video does not show China using livestock transport trucks to move people to quarantine

23 November 2021 3 min read

The misleading video has been edited. A longer version shows the truck was evacuating people out of flooded roads.

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False image showing Yang Jiechi bowing to Mike Pompeo
False 

False: This 2018 photo of China’s top diplomat Yang Jiechi used in media reports is manipulated

4 May 20215 May 2021 5 min read

The image showing Chinese senior diplomat Yang Jiechi bowing to then U.S. State Secretary Mike Pompeo in a meeting in Beijing on Oct. 8, 2018 has been doctored. The original picture shows both diplomats facing the camera, standing up straight.

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Title Image for Myanmar Molotov story
False 

False: These images do not show Myanmar soldiers setting Chinese-owned factories ablaze

20 April 2021 5 min read

The photo showing a Myanmar soldier holding a Molotov cocktail is manipulated. The original image is about an anti-coup demonstration in the northwestern town of Kalay, Myanmar on March 2, which has nothing to do with the burning of Chinese-owned factories on March 14.

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COVID-19 Misleading 

Misleading: This video does not show Mexican immigrants in “storage containers” in the US; it shows mobile homes at a quarantine site in China

12 April 202116 April 2021 2 min read

A tweet suggested the U.S. President Joe Biden has created what looks like “concentration camps” at the U.S.-Mexican border but the embedded video clip actually shows a COVID-19 quarantine site in Yunnan province, China.

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COVID-19 分析 深度報道 中文 

分析:對林鄭月娥接種的疫苗有疑問?直播片段證針筒從科興包裝玻璃瓶取疫苗

10 March 202115 July 2021 1 min read

Annie Lab根據直播截圖和網上圖片的分析顯示,林鄭月娥接種的疫苗是從內地科興疫苗的玻璃瓶中抽取,而非如謠言猜測般接種了歐洲藥廠生產的疫苗。

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False 

False: This picture does not show Chinese soldiers helping Myanmar’s military ‘destroy’ the internet

1 March 202116 April 2021 2 min read

The photo shows PLA Navy soldiers. It was taken in Dec. 2017 during combat drills in the East China Sea. It has nothing to do with the current status of the internet shutdown in Myanmar.

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