False: This video shows fire in Daegu, not near Halloween crowd crush at Itaewon in Seoul
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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annie lab
@HKU School of Future Media
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Misleading: This ‘eerie’ video does not show people following China’s strict COVID rules
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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Misleading: This photo has nothing to do with protest messages in China’s public bathrooms
This image is at least 12 years old. It has nothing to do with recent anti-Chinese government messages found in public restrooms.
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誤導：媒體報道廣州封控示威誤用2017年清遠衝突短片
英國廣播公司、《衛報》、半島電視台等多個媒體報道廣州封控時，誤把一個5年前廣東清遠居民反對興建垃圾焚燒廠的示威片段，當成廣州市民示威場景。
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Misleading: Media’s Guangzhou protest coverage includes old video from 2017
BBC, Al Jazeera and other news organizations included five-year-old footage from Qingyuan that has nothing to do with the recent protests in Guangzhou.
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False: Video shows fire in Hebei, not Beijing’s Xizhimen Hotel
The fire occurred in the Nanxinglong residential area in the city of Chengde in Hebei province.
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False: This image of Greta Thunberg’s ‘weight gain’ is also doctored
The new viral photo manipulated a picture uploaded four years ago. Various recent news photos do not show any major changes in her appearance.
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False: This video was not shot in Iran; it shows old protest footage in Ukraine and Hong Kong
It is a composite of different footage featuring protesters hurling Molotov cocktails with slingshots in Ukraine in 2014 and in Hong Kong in 2019.
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False: This video shows ongoing protests in Iran, not celebrations over Khamenei’s ‘death’
Protesters chanted, “death to the dictator.” It does not connote the supreme leader’s death, as implied in the tweet. Khamenei is alive and made speeches in public after the post.
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Misleading: Anti-Chinese government banner was hung in Los Angeles, not in Guangzhou
Self-proclaimed advocate for the independence of Guangdong province staged a protest in the U.S.
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