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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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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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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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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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Annie Lab looks into an anti-vaccine group that has frequently disseminated misinformation about COVID-19 since February.
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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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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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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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Various social media posts suggest human bodies became magnetic following COVID-19 vaccination. Experts say that is simply impossible.
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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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一篇社交網站帖文引述一篇2013年內地媒體報道，暗指現時肆虐全球的新型肺炎病毒為人工製造。經查證相關報道詳細內容，證實帖子所言有歪曲事實之嫌。
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Subramanian Swaminathan is the director of Infectious Diseases and Infection Control at Gleneagles Global Hospitals, not a ministry spokesperson. He appeared in multiple interviews after he was vaccinated. The claim appears to originate from a deliberate mistranslation.
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The 2013 article has nothing to do with the current COVID-19 pandemic. The study mentioned in the story does not conclude coronaviruses can be human-made.
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原圖只拍攝到蔡英文大腿及以上的部分，跪下的雙腿來自另一張南韓國會照片，而從總統府發布的影片可見，蔡英文發言時正在站在地上。
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菅義偉演說影片中的中文字幕內容並非按原文翻譯，原片相關部分的內容與東京奧運會無關。
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The Chinese translation of Suga’s speech was fabricated. It has nothing to do with the upcoming Tokyo Olympics.
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The image was manipulated to add Tsai Ing-wen’s lower legs. A video from the same scene shows her talking to the US senators while standing.
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A social media post claims Fauci’s emails show he had known lockdowns were unnecessary and that asymptomatic people could not spread COVID-19, but a review of the emails tells otherwise.
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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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As the vaccine rollout gathers momentum, confusion and misleading claims about the effectiveness, side effects and safety of different vaccines continue to abound.
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Peer-reviewed studies on ivermectin and the expert interviewed by Annie Lab indicate such claims have no scientific ground.
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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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Annie Lab’s visual analysis shows the syringe used to inoculate the Chief Executive was filled from a Sinovac vial. It was not a prefilled syringe made by a European manufacturer as the rumor implies.
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Annie Lab found the popular online calculation has no validity. Three datasets do not show what the claim implied at all.
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The proposed amount is $103 million. It is for the Food and Health Bureau, not Hospital Authority.
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報道提及的研究其實由一群中國研究人員進行，並由一家荷蘭出版社旗下的醫學期刊出版。
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很多專家認為疫苗將是阻止新型冠狀病毒傳播的關鍵。但自從疫情爆發以來，社會對於疫苗出現各種疑惑及誤導言論。
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立法會議員蔣麗芸在片中試圖將疫情源頭歸咎於美國，扭曲了美國抗疫顧問福奇2017年一場演講的意思。
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Pro-establishment legislator Ann Chiang Lai-wan’s popular video features a number of misleading and false claims that have been debunked.
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The study in question was actually conducted by researchers in China and published in a journal by a Dutch company.
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