False: Ex-Japanese politician who drank ‘nuclear-contaminated’ water in 2011 is not dead
Yasuhiro Sonoda told Kyodo News Agency that the viral posts claiming he died of cancer three years ago were fabricated.
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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: COVID-19 vaccines do not cause body odor
Nothing in COVID-19 vaccines change body odor. Immune response changes may affect pheromones, but the smell is not discernible unlike other common factors such as food intake.
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False: Retired Chinese submarine is a moored tourist spot; it’s not grounded by flooding
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
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
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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False: Factory identifier code ‘K’ does not indicate Fukushima-made food products
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
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
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
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
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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