False: Cathay Pacific did not say the company will slash 5,300 jobs because of the 2019 HK airport protest
Restructuring is due to the pandemic crisis. Many major airlines in the region are also restructuring their operations.
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The claim is demonstrably false. The photo/video has been doctored. Main debunking is about the claim and/or the authenticity of photo/video.
False: This video does not show mail-in votes for Trump being dumped into a landfill
This video was first posted in 2016. It shows packs of expired chicken being thrown out.
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False: This video does not show Uyghur children “being sold” by Chinese traffickers
This video has been manipulated. The audio is a truncated version of a Douyin video featuring two men bargaining over products being sold on the street, which has been added to an unrelated video of a young child model.
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False: This photo does not show 12 arrested Hong Kongers being led into a courthouse in Shenzhen
The image shows seven defendants charged with drug-related crimes walking into the courthouse of Taihe County, Anhui province.
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False: The video showing an anti-Trump banner hanging on Trump Tower in Chicago was doctored
A video showing a banner with the message “MURDERED 200,000 AMERICANS” hanging on Trump Tower posted on a Facebook page in September 2020 was doctored.
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False: Hospital Authority did not allocate HK$3 billion to subsidize the medical fees of Hong Kongers living in Guangdong
The proposed amount is $103 million. It is for the Food and Health Bureau, not Hospital Authority.
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False: This photo of Joe Biden appearing to sniff Kamala Harris’s hair is digitally manipulated
The image of Biden was taken five years ago while the image of Harris is from 2019.
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False: Chris Patten did not ask for Hong Kong’s “return” to British rule in the Hague
Chris Patten has never said he would go to the Hague or demand that the U.K. reclaim Hong Kong.
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False: Gargling with salt water or drinking Pu’er tea won’t prevent COVID-19 infection
At the moment there is no known substance that can kill the novel coronavirus in the human body.
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False: Microbiologist Yuen Kwok-yung did not comment on holding Legco election during COVID-19’s third wave
The claim in the popular Facebook post is groundless. Yuen has never discussed upcoming election while Hong Kong is going through the third was of COVID-19.
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False: Image of flooded dormitory room is old and digitally manipulated
The objects in the water appear to have been digitally added as many of them are identical duplicates.
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False: Reposting ‘legal statements’ does not exempt users from Facebook’s Terms of Service
This is a recurring chain letter hoax that has been debunked by several fact-checking organizations.
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False: Local media did not report UK government helped suspected protester flee Hong Kong
The claim is false and the image appears to be manipulated.
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False: Video depicting bus passengers screaming in terror is manipulated
The audio track of panic-struck passenger voices was taken from a different video clip and added to this one.
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False: Black objects on lampposts are not surveillance devices
The black attachments are merely covers to protect electronics sockets from the rain on newer LED lampposts.
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False: McDonald’s won’t provide free meals to customers who say “I am your father” on Father’s Day
McDonald’s Hong Kong confirmed with Annie Lab in an email that local branches of the hamburger chain are not offering such a promotion.
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False: This video does not show a WHO official touching a female conference attendee in China
The man is a Nobel Prize laureate in physics, attending a conference with his significant other who was having a sore back.
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False: This video does not show an anti-China rally in Italy
It was an event to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Valerio Verbano, an Italian left-wing activist murdered in 1980.
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FALSE: This video does not show a fake, man-made egg
These components are all natural constituents of an egg.
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False: This video of figure skating “ice prince” Yuzuru Hanyu with Winnie the Pooh dolls is not censored in China
Many videos featuring the figure skating “ice prince” with the stuffed plush toy can be viewed on multiple platforms.
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