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False: This video does not show Chinese police ‘kidnapping’ a Uyghur girl in Xinjiang

8 November 2021

It actually shows an officer trying to protect the girl from a bike coming at her. The video was taken in Suining, Sichuan, not in Xinjiang.

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False: This vulgar message targeting Biden in US stadium is digitally altered

3 November 2021

The original message reads “Home of the 12th Man” in reference to a Texas A&M tradition.

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False: ‘Falling dust,’ mobile phones and haircut do not prove Chinese astronauts are not in space

26 October 2021

An expert said dust particles may appear in space due to ambient air activity. Mobile phones can also work as internet access in space is made possible through satellite communication.

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False: Image of US Army general receiving a Huawei phone from a Chinese general is manipulated

20 October 2021

The image is a composite of multiple pictures. Each person, the flags, and the gift box are all taken from different photos.

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False: This video does not show ‘disguised suicide’ in China; it shows a man falling off a building in Russia

19 October 2021

The 26-year-old man was pushed from the sixth floor on Aug. 15, 2021.

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COVID-19 Fact check False

False: This video does not show a man vandalizing ‘vaccine passport verification’ machines

15 October 2021

The video was taken in 2017. It shows an intoxicated man thrashing self check-in machines at the Incheon International Airport, according to a news report.

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COVID-19 Fact check False

False: China’s double-dose COVID-19 vaccine vial is neither ‘fake’ nor ‘of different grade’

11 October 2021

The new vaccine package was officially approved by medical authorities, according to a doctor from the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention who spoke in a webinar in May.

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COVID-19 Fact check False

False: This photo does not show ‘Australian protester’ with rubber bullet wounds; it shows a man in Argentina in 2015

5 October 2021

The photo shows a demonstrator in a labor dispute in Buenos Aires on Dec. 22, 2015, according to the Associated Press. It has nothing to do with the anti-vaccine mandate protests in Melbourne in September 2021.

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