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.
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COVID-19
Misleading: People handcuffed outside hospital are suspected illegal immigrants
The police told Annie Lab that seven men and 15 women were taken to the Pok Oi Hospital for COVID-19 nucleic acid testing recently.
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False: COVID-19 vaccines did not kill 29,939 people in Europe
There is no established causal relationship between these deaths and vaccination.
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False: This video does not show China using livestock transport trucks to move people to quarantine
The misleading video has been edited. A longer version shows the truck was evacuating people out of flooded roads.
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Analysis: This quote does not indicate US authorities have not evaluated vaccine’s long-term effects on kids before approval
The 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.
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Misleading: This discussion on ‘China’s plot to weaken US troops with vaccines’ is not organized by the Communist Party but by US website
The 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.
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Just in case: ‘Vaccination robot’ in this video is 3D computer graphics :)
The CGI video was originally posted on May 30, 2021, by a TikTok creator specializing in visual effects.
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False: This video does not show a man vandalizing ‘vaccine passport verification’ machines
The 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.
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False: China’s double-dose COVID-19 vaccine vial is neither ‘fake’ nor ‘of different grade’
The 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.
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Verified: This video shows protestors dancing at an anti-COVID restrictions demonstration in Netherlands
The 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.
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False: This photo does not show ‘Australian protester’ with rubber bullet wounds; it shows a man in Argentina in 2015
The 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.
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No evidence for ‘autoimmune diseases caused by COVID-19 vaccination’
Experts 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).
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虛假：網傳英國六成新冠住院患者已打針致病情嚴重 實引用錯誤數據
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。
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False: 60 percent of hospitalized COVID-19 patients in the UK did not develop serious or critical conditions ‘due to vaccination’
The 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.
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Investigation: A group of doctors spreading misleading claims about COVID-19 vaccines
Annie Lab looks into an anti-vaccine group that has frequently disseminated misinformation about COVID-19 since February.
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虛假：新冠疫苗不會令人體有磁性
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。
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False: German scientist did not say vaccination caused the delta variant in a recent conference
Karl 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.
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Explainer: Enlarged lymph nodes are a known temporary reaction to COVID-19 vaccines, not a sign of breast cancer
Various 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.
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False: COVID-19 vaccines do not make you magnetic
Various social media posts suggest human bodies became magnetic following COVID-19 vaccination. Experts say that is simply impossible.
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False: These CT images of lungs do not link vaping disease to COVID-19
Ground-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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