Explainer: Global controversy over hydroxychloroquine [update]
Usage of hydroxychloroquine in prevention or treatment of COVID-19 remains to be controversial around the world.
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Misleading: Murder of Chinese researcher in the US is not related to COVID-19
Local police determined the case was a result of “a lengthy dispute regarding an intimate partner.”
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Misleading: Popular freedom of speech quote in China and Hong Kong is not from Plato
The passage was likely to be taken from an essay by Zhang Xuezhong, an outspoken Chinese scholar critical of the government.
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Investigation of conspiracy narratives: Virus mutations and the US origin of COVID-19
Research on virus mutations has been misinterpreted while conspiracies and propaganda spread in China.
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False: This video does not show a WHO official touching a female conference attendee in China
The man is a Nobel Prize laureate in physics, attending a conference with his significant other who was having a sore back.
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False: This video does not show an anti-China rally in Italy
It was an event to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Valerio Verbano, an Italian left-wing activist murdered in 1980.
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Misleading: These charts about COVID-19 contain inaccurate medical information
Self-diagnosis based on these charts could be harmful.
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Misleading: This map does not show 5 million Wuhan residents flying out before the lockdown
The map is merely “an illustrative picture of the global air network” that shows international flight connections.
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