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@HKU School of Future Media

Fact check Misleading

Misleading: Black police officers in this photo are not employed by China’s law enforcement

30 July 2023

The senior officers were from Ivory Coast. They visited Hongshan in 2018 as part of a cross-border training.

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Fact check Misleading

Misleading: Video shows man falling to death in Germany, not ‘angry husband’ in China

24 July 2023

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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虛假 Fact check 中文

虛假：秦剛被免外長職務前其資料仍列於外交部網頁

21 July 2023

秦剛的「部長簡歷」有6種語言版本，另外包括致辭、活動足跡等當時仍然在官網可以找到。

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Fact check Misleading

Misleading: Woman posing with indigenous men is not ex-head of Shandong University

20 July 2023

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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Fact check False

False: China’s foreign minister’s profile was online until he was sacked on July 25

19 July 2023

Qin Gang’s resume on Ministry of Foreign Affairs website was accessible during a month-long disappearance but erased immediately after the abrupt dismissal

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虛假 Fact check 中文

虚假：美国驻华大使馆并未发布中国气温预测

18 July 2023

社交媒体中文帖文指美国大使馆官员涉嫌违反中国气候发布管理条例，发布非官方的天气预报数据。经查，相关信息实出自一个非牟利空污数据网站发布，与美国政府无关。

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False: US Embassy in Beijing does not make unauthorized weather forecast

12 July 2023

Chinese posts accused U.S. diplomats of disseminating unauthorized weather data illicitly, but the forecast has nothing to do with the U.S. government.

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