False: Elon Musk’s ‘buying TikTok’ tweet was created by modifying HTML
The user who created the fake tweet says it was made by changing HTML codes.
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False: This video shows fire in Daegu, not near Halloween crowd crush at Itaewon in Seoul
The fire in Daegu, a city about 240 kilometers from Seoul, broke out on the same night the widely-reported crowd surge occurred at Itaewon.
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False: This image of Greta Thunberg’s ‘weight gain’ is also doctored
The new viral photo manipulated a picture uploaded four years ago. Various recent news photos do not show any major changes in her appearance.
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False: This video was not shot in Iran; it shows old protest footage in Ukraine and Hong Kong
It is a composite of different footage featuring protesters hurling Molotov cocktails with slingshots in Ukraine in 2014 and in Hong Kong in 2019.
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False: This video shows ongoing protests in Iran, not celebrations over Khamenei’s ‘death’
Protesters chanted, “death to the dictator.” It does not connote the supreme leader’s death, as implied in the tweet. Khamenei is alive and made speeches in public after the post.
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False: Photo shows two US aircraft carriers; neither is China’s Fujian warship
The image shows USS Gerald R. Ford and John F. Kennedy docked in Virginia last year. It does not show China’s latest aircraft carrier launched with fanfare in June.
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False: This marching soldier has nothing to do with Putin’s call-up of reservists
The earliest version of the same video we found was posted in 2019, three years before Russia announced drafting 300,000 more reservists in the ongoing war with Ukraine in late September.
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False: Flag made of hair is a 2014 artwork, not a protest sign by Iranian women
The artwork has nothing to do with the death of a 22-year-old woman in Iran that triggered international outcry and protests.
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False: Video of violence against woman is unrelated to human trafficking in Cambodia
The clip shows a woman repeatedly beaten up by three men in Brazil. Local media said she was attacked in a dispute over drugs.
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False: Photo shows a Thai woman killed in 2019, not a Taiwanese victim of human trafficking
The Thai woman was reportedly murdered by a serial killer. The images have nothing to do with the victims of recent employment scams in Southeast Asia.
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