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The original footage shows Hurricane Matthew striking Florida in 2016 with no sign of a tornado. Annie Lab can confirm that it was digitally added to the video later.
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Many people flocked to grocery stores in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and South Korea recently to buy table salt in bulk. Annie Lab explains what was going on.
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Nothing in COVID-19 vaccines change body odor. Immune response changes may affect pheromones, but the smell is not discernible unlike other common factors such as food intake.
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The senior officers were from Ivory Coast. They visited Hongshan in 2018 as part of a cross-border training.
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The German man who fell from a building was a suspect in a hostage situation in Dresden; he was attempting to flee from the police.
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The picture shows an Indonesian travel blogger visiting a tribe in the province of Papua. It was first posted in 2007.
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One photo was taken before the nuclear accident; one is doctored, one shows a freshwater fish and the other was initially tied to domestic wastewater far away from Fukushima.
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Annie Lab found inaccurate news reports, irrelevant images, and a manipulated video about flooding and landslides in China
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The black women seen picking tea leaves in the video are international students attending a tea-harvesting event in Jiangxi province.
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Two of the four factories are still operating, while the other two were reportedly shut down for losses incurred before the pandemic.
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The viral video shows one of the world’s largest landfills in Bantar Gebang in Bekasi on the outskirts of Jakarta in Indonesia.
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Annie Lab tracked down a dozen protest videos allegedly about China’s medical insurance reform in Wuhan and Dalian.
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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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