False: This manipulated video does not show New Year firework drone show in China
It was made with a video editing application. The location, the Bund in Shanghai, had no celebration event this year.
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@HKU School of Future Media
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The claim is demonstrably false. The photo/video has been doctored. Stories investigate factual validity of the claim and/or the authenticity of photo/video.
False: Chinese subtitles of Putin’s speech threatening Japan are fabricated
One video shows Russian President Vladimir Putin talking about historical memory with World War II veterans in January 2023. Another clip shows him giving a speech following a terrorist attack in Moscow in March 2024.
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False: Chinese observatory has not captured neutrinos, or ‘ghost particles’
The observatory’s core construction was completed a month after the claim circulated online. It will begin operation in 2025. Physicists say there is no proof that neutrinos can travel faster than light.
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False: Viral ‘flying dog’ image from Typhoon Yagi was digitally manipulated
Many media outlets were misled by the doctored photo. Annie Lab discovered that the ‘flying dog’ silhouette image is at least eight years old.
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False: Video showing a White woman singing in Chinese at Paris Olympics is doctored
An unrelated Chinese song was added to a video of Taylor Swift’s concert. The clip showing the audience waving Chinese flags was taken from last year’s Asian Games.
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False: Image showing subtitles of table tennis gold medalist Chen Meng’s interview is fabricated
In the actual interview, Chen Meng expressed her joy in winning the gold medal. She neither criticized the audience nor Liu Guoliang, head of the country’s Table Tennis Association, as suggested by the falsified subtitles.
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False: US Marine Corps Commandant Eric Smith is still alive and ‘did not die in Gaza’
Photos from the U.S. military show the American general attended different functions and met members of his force in July, which were posted after some social media posts claimed him dead.
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False: Video of former Indonesian minister promoting health product is manipulated
The former health minister, Terawan Agus Putranto, said nothing about the health product in the original speech seen on a TV news report in 2019.
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False: Electric car testing video in China shows a dummy, not a human, run over by vehicle
The clip shows a popular Chinese car information website conducting a series of tests on autonomous emergency braking systems of 14 cars, including Li Auto’s MEGA model.
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False: Orange rubbish bins in Hong Kong do not indicate ‘the only smoking areas’
Hong Kong’s Smoking Ordinance designates various locations as “no-smoking areas,” but the regulation has nothing to do with the placement of orange litter containers.
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