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Density and colors of the dots on IAEA’s interactive maps simply indicate the number of data samples and historical maximum radioactive readings, based on aggregated data since 1957.
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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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Yasuhiro Sonoda told Kyodo News Agency that the viral posts claiming he died of cancer three years ago were fabricated.
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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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This submarine “349” was converted to a museum ship at Zhejiang’s sightseeing base in 2013 and could be boarded by tourists.
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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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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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The letter codes are assigned arbitrarily by manufacturers. One way to tell the location of the manufacturing factory is to consult the Japanese Consumer Affairs Agency database.
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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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An irrelevant audio clip was added to falsify a vice-chancellor’s speech at Lanzhou University in 2021
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Annie Lab examined some popular social media content posted after the devastating quakes in Turkey and Syria.
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The video was taken during the National Day celebration on Oct. 1, 2022. The audio track of chanting voices was added from an unrelated military training video shot in 2021 in Tianjin.
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The user who created the fake tweet says it was made by changing HTML codes.
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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 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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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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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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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 earliest version of the same video we found was posted in 2019, three years before Russia announced drafting 300,000 more reservists in the ongoing war with Ukraine in late September.
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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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The clip shows a woman repeatedly beaten up by three men in Brazil. Local media said she was attacked in a dispute over drugs.
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The Thai woman was reportedly murdered by a serial killer. The images have nothing to do with the victims of recent employment scams in Southeast Asia.
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The “statement” shared on Chinese social media is not official. It originates from a Japanese tweet that simply expressed the user’s view on the incident.
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The two participated in the Annual Warrior Competition held by the Jordanian Armed Forces in Amman in 2014.
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The fish kill reportedly took place at Shuangyue Bay in Guangdong in November 2021. It has nothing to do with the recent Chinese military exercise near Taiwan.
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Monkeypox has been reported in 77 countries including India, Russia, and Venezuela where the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine is not available. Experts say there is no link between the two.
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Shinzo Abe collapsed shortly after he was shot and fell unconscious. The misleading social media posts in Chinese appear to stem from inaccurate translations of a local news report.
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A widely shared conspiracy theory suggested Japan’s former prime minister was assassinated because he disobeyed the World Economic Forum. Annie Lab looked into three specific claims and found all of them unsubstantiated.
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Annie Lab obtained the videos of original broadcast and can confirm the two anchors were not smiling. The doctored images were created by a photo editing app for mobile devices called FaceApp.
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The last time the Polish president indicated making any changes to the abortion law was almost two years ago.
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