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误导：天安门广场集会及北京汽车鸣笛网传片段与悼念李克强无关

13 November 2023

其中两段影片摄于李克强去世逾3周前的十一国庆；而另一片段则摄于2020年全国哀悼新冠肺炎逝者活动。

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Fact check Misleading

Misleading: Tiananmen crowd and car honking videos are not related to the late Li Keqiang

7 November 2023

Two videos show China’s National Day celebration more than three weeks before Li’s death; the other is a three-year-old clip showing drivers mourning COVID-19 victims in 2020.

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Fact check Misleading

Misleading: Dated sexual assault video is not related to Israel – Hamas war

7 November 2023

The video capturing the sexual violence was taken in Pakistan in 2021.

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Fact check Misleading

Misleading: Journalist took cover during an air-raid alert in Israel; it was not a ‘staged act’

6 November 2023

The air-raid siren was edited out in the misleading video. It also cut out the scene in the same broadcast showing a civilian taking cover under a bench behind her.

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False: Doctored video of Zelenskyy’s UN speech was not aired by Ukranian media outlet

2 November 2023

Annie Lab looked into the original livestream by the Ukrainian channel and found stark audio-visual discrepancies between that and the widely circulated video on X purportedly showing the doctored footage used on air.

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False: This racist wall slogan in China linking black people to AIDS is doctored

19 October 2023

Annie Lab found several versions of the same image with different slogans being sold on Taobao. Custom-made wall advertisements or slogans are popular e-commerce digital products in China.

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Fact check Misleading

Misleading: Photo shows a jail cell in Missouri, not where ex-Pakistan PM Imran Khan was held

18 October 2023

Photos and videos of the same jail cell, taken by visitors who joined the guided tour at the decommissioned Missouri State Penitentiary, can be found on the internet.

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Fact check Misleading

Misleading: These clips are not related to the latest Israel-Hamas war

17 October 2023

Annie Lab looked into several questionable videos; they all turned out to be either old or not taken in Israel at all.

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Fact check Misleading

Misleading: These clips do not show floods in Libya

12 October 2023

A video featuring ten different scenes of floods was used in a claim about Libya but Annie Lab can prove at least six of them are unrelated to the recent natural disaster there.

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