False: Chinese official wasn’t wearing a donated Canada Goose jacket in quake-hit Gansu
The jacket is from a Chinese outdoor brand called TOREAD. This image was taken a day before Canada Goose contacted the authority about the donation.
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False: Video shows Israeli attack in Gaza, not on Chinese peacekeepers in Lebanon
This video shows an attack in the Southern Gaza Strip in the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. It does not show the UN peacekeeping force headquarters in Lebanon.
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False: This video does not show Hamas soldiers fighting in suicide vehicles
The clip is at least six years old and a composite of two separate footage. The first half features ISIS members, and the second half contains drone footage of car bombs, mostly likely filmed in northern Iraq.
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False: Xi Jinping did not ‘skip’ the second photo op at APEC; it was only for IPEF member nations
The photo op was for the 14 member countries of the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity, of which China is not a member. The IPEF meeting was held on the sidelines of APEC.
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False: Chinese subtitles of Putin’s ‘anti-Israel’ speech are fabricated, not translation
Putin’s speeches in the viral videos were given months before the Israel-Hamas war broke out. The Russian president did not threaten Israel or said Russia would join the war.
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False: Doctored video of Zelenskyy’s UN speech was not aired by Ukranian media outlet
Annie Lab looked into the original livestream by the Ukrainian channel and found stark audio-visual discrepancies between that and the widely circulated video on X purportedly showing the doctored footage used on air.
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False: This racist wall slogan in China linking black people to AIDS is doctored
Annie Lab found several versions of the same image with different slogans being sold on Taobao. Custom-made wall advertisements or slogans are popular e-commerce digital products in China.
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False: Nine-layer bed was made for a satirical video, not for a real student dormitory in China
The viral image is a screenshot of a comedy video created by a popular influencer Wang Zhixin whose Douyin channel has more than 10.4 million followers.
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False: IAEA’s database does not show recent marine radioactive pollution in Japan or Europe
Density and colors of the dots on IAEA’s interactive maps simply indicate the number of data samples and historical maximum radioactive readings, based on aggregated data since 1957.
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False: Altered tornado video does not show typhoon-affected Libya, Japan or Philippines
The original footage shows Hurricane Matthew striking Florida in 2016 with no sign of a tornado. Annie Lab can confirm that it was digitally added to the video later.
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