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Wulumuqi Zhong Road (乌鲁木齐中路) in Shanghai was not renamed to Wu Zhong Road (乌中路). The image of a police officer holding a “white paper” comes from a two-year-old public services announcement video.
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The video was produced last July to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party. It has nothing to do with recent COVID-19 protests in the country.
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China successfully launched its Shenzhou-12 and 13 spacecraft in 2021. Many children wore spacesuit costumes at school’s sporting events that year.
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The fire in Daegu, a city about 240 kilometers from Seoul, broke out on the same night the widely-reported crowd surge occurred at Itaewon.
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The video consists of two pieces of footage. One shows students wearing white raincoats, and the other shows construction workers building a makeshift hospital in Shanghai.
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The fire occurred in the Nanxinglong residential area in the city of Chengde in Hebei province.
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The image shows USS Gerald R. Ford and John F. Kennedy docked in Virginia last year. It does not show China’s latest aircraft carrier launched with fanfare in June.
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The popular video combines footage of a graduation ceremony in Macau with an unrelated audio track.
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The police car was seized by a man after an officer tried to intervene in an altercation between the man and a woman in Jiangsu province in 2019.
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The artwork has nothing to do with the death of a 22-year-old woman in Iran that triggered international outcry and protests.
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Annie Lab looked into two video clips claiming wildfires are manmade, which also implied climate change is not real.
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The first half of the video shows a 2021 mass protest in Rome against a vaccine pass mandate. The second half features a taxi drivers’ demonstration against a bill related to ride-hailing services.
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The fire took place more than 10 kilometers away from the headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church. It reportedly started in an archaeological park in an area called Centocelle in eastern Rome.
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Annie Lab reached out to a journalist who also took photos of the roadside memorial around the same time. The two slices of watermelon were placed later than the flowers on the ground.
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Annie Lab investigated two images used in misleading social media posts about the ongoing farmers’ protests in the Netherlands.
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The flag shows the symbol of the uprising in Kyiv in 2014 known as the Revolution of Dignity in Ukraine.
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The video was doctored with stitched video frames and spliced audio track. In the original video of the full interview, he said he doesn’t use drugs but he is into coffee and gets his energy from daily exercise.
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The montage mixes a live news broadcast in Ukraine with an unrelated clip using green screen technology, according to the TikTok user who made it.
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Hundreds of people indeed waited outside the stores across the city, but the photo shows a long queue at a shopping mall in Malaysia.
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The image is one of the mock-up designs explored by the magazine. The published cover features only Putin’s face overlapping the face of Chinese President Xi Jinping.
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WHO routinely collaborates with member states on the safety and security of labs. Bioweapon allegations have been debunked by scientists.
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The video shows a demonstration held by climate activists against Vienna’s climate policy on Feb. 4, not casualties in the recent conflict between Ukraine and Russia.
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The image is manipulated. The original shows Putin holding his father’s portrait in 2015.
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The photo shows a dog cull in Yunnan Province in April 2006.
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The GIF is a clip from a 2017 CCTV video about China’s People’s Liberation Army Rocket Force.
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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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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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The “Black Lives Matter” flag is taken from another photo and was added to what appears to be an older tourist image.
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It actually shows an officer trying to protect the girl from a bike coming at her. The video was taken in Suining, Sichuan, not in Xinjiang.
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The CGI video was originally posted on May 30, 2021, by a TikTok creator specializing in visual effects.
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