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25 April 2024

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False: Retired Chinese submarine is a moored tourist spot; it’s not grounded by flooding

8 August 2023

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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False: China’s foreign minister’s profile was online until he was sacked on July 25

19 July 2023

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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False: US Embassy in Beijing does not make unauthorized weather forecast

12 July 2023

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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Fact check False Health

False: Factory identifier code ‘K’ does not indicate Fukushima-made food products

19 June 2023

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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False: Tea culture event falsely described as ‘enslavement’ of black people in China

30 April 2023

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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False: This manipulated video has nothing to do with admission of HIV-positive students

25 April 2023

An irrelevant audio clip was added to falsify a vice-chancellor’s speech at Lanzhou University in 2021

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An array of misinformation about earthquakes in Turkey

24 March 2023

Annie Lab examined some popular social media content posted after the devastating quakes in Turkey and Syria.

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False: This Tiananmen Square video does not show China’s COVID-19 protests

10 January 2023

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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