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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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Experts say it is possible for water to remain inside a container in space because of surface tension. It is also possible to fill a container with water in a space station.
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The image was uploaded on a photo-sharing platform in 2019. The blogger refuted the rumor on her social media account.
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The clip has been traced to a Douyin account of one of the actors in the drama, posted in 2020.
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The public hearing and execution took place in Wa Self-Administered Region in Myanmar where authorities also speak Mandarin Chinese.
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The video was doctored with stitched video frames and spliced audio track. In the original video of the full interview, he said he doesn’t use drugs but he is into coffee and gets his energy from daily exercise.
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The montage mixes a live news broadcast in Ukraine with an unrelated clip using green screen technology, according to the TikTok user who made it.
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The image is manipulated. The original shows Putin holding his father’s portrait in 2015.
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The video was posted in December 2021 and shows the tidal bore in Kampar river in Indonesia.
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There is no established causal relationship between these deaths and vaccination.
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The misleading video has been edited. A longer version shows the truck was evacuating people out of flooded roads.
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A different audio track was added to old footage taken during the 2019 Hong Kong protest.
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The “Black Lives Matter” flag is taken from another photo and was added to what appears to be an older tourist image.
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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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The original message reads “Home of the 12th Man” in reference to a Texas A&M tradition.
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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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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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The 26-year-old man was pushed from the sixth floor on Aug. 15, 2021.
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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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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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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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The original article in the Nan Guo Morning Post (南国早报) puts it at 60 percent.
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In this article, Annie Lab delves into three unverified social media content about Afghanistan in turmoil
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The woman is a Pakistani female entrepreneur, Aleena Raza. The photo was taken in 2014 in Lahore, Pakistan.
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The Chinese tweet with the false claim was posted after the British expert corrected his misspoken statistics. Similar claims in English were also debunked by fact-checking organizations before the post was made.
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Misleading medal tables that show China with the most number of golds are doctored images.
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