Investigation: Misleading claims about masks and vaccines in Hong Kong’s 5th wave
Annie Lab looks into an article about Hong Kong’s COVID-19 fifth wave published by a known anti-vaccine website in the United States.
ReadAnnie Lab looks into an article about Hong Kong’s COVID-19 fifth wave published by a known anti-vaccine website in the United States.
ReadThe police told Annie Lab that seven men and 15 women were taken to the Pok Oi Hospital for COVID-19 nucleic acid testing recently.
ReadThere is no established causal relationship between these deaths and vaccination.
ReadThe misleading video has been edited. A longer version shows the truck was evacuating people out of flooded roads.
ReadThe seven-second clip, which was pulled from an eight-hour deliberation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel on the safety of vaccine usage in children aged 5-11, was devoid of context.
ReadThe video is from a live broadcast of GTV, an online platform known for its anti-Communist Party stance and push for misinformation and conspiracy theories.
ReadThe CGI video was originally posted on May 30, 2021, by a TikTok creator specializing in visual effects.
ReadThe video was taken in 2017. It shows an intoxicated man thrashing self check-in machines at the Incheon International Airport, according to a news report.
ReadThe new vaccine package was officially approved by medical authorities, according to a doctor from the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention who spoke in a webinar in May.
ReadThe viral video shows people dancing to club music on the streets who were protesting against the social distancing restrictions and nightlife ban on Sept. 11.
ReadThe photo shows a demonstrator in a labor dispute in Buenos Aires on Dec. 22, 2015, according to the Associated Press. It has nothing to do with the anti-vaccine mandate protests in Melbourne in September 2021.
ReadExperts say there is no scientific proof to support the claim that vaccination has led to any of the diseases mentioned in the tweet (only one of which is actually an autoimmune disease).
Read英國政府首席科學顧問在記者會上錯誤引述疫情數據的片段和相關評論,被上載到Twitter一個時評帳戶。但其實該名科學顧問早已就口誤澄清,而相關不實陳述亦早被多個事實查核組織破解。
ReadThe Chinese tweet with the false claim was posted after the British expert corrected his misspoken statistics. Similar claims in English were also debunked by fact-checking organizations before the post was made.
ReadAnnie Lab looks into an anti-vaccine group that has frequently disseminated misinformation about COVID-19 since February.
Read網上流傳接種新冠疫苗後會令人體有磁性,但專家澄清不會發生這個情況。
ReadKarl Lauterbach, a German epidemiologist and also a politician, did not make any statement that links inoculation to the origins of the delta variant in a COVID-19 conference on June 21.
ReadVarious social media posts claim that COVID-19 vaccination “may result in symptoms of breast cancer,” implying that it could cause breast cancer. Experts say while the inoculation may cause lymph node enlargement, it is a known reaction and will subside in weeks.
ReadVarious social media posts suggest human bodies became magnetic following COVID-19 vaccination. Experts say that is simply impossible.
ReadGround-glass opacity is a common manifestation of lung injury. It does not imply any link between COVID-19 and vaping disease.
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