False: This video in China shows anti-pandemic drama, not a staged ‘fake’ tragedy
The clip has been traced to a Douyin account of one of the actors in the drama, posted in 2020.
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@HKU School of Future Media
False
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: Video of public death penalty trial shows Myanmar, not China
The public hearing and execution took place in Wa Self-Administered Region in Myanmar where authorities also speak Mandarin Chinese.
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False: Zelenskyy did not say he uses cocaine in this interview
The video was doctored with stitched video frames and spliced audio track. In the original video of the full interview, he said he doesn’t use drugs but he is into coffee and gets his energy from daily exercise.
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False: Woman protesting against Zelenskyy on Ukrainian TV is a digital mashup
The montage mixes a live news broadcast in Ukraine with an unrelated clip using green screen technology, according to the TikTok user who made it.
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False: Putin was not holding a picture of the late King Bhumibol of Thailand
The image is manipulated. The original shows Putin holding his father’s portrait in 2015.
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False: Video of man punching banana tree was filmed in Indonesia last year, not Tonga in 2022
The video was posted in December 2021 and shows the tidal bore in Kampar river in Indonesia.
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False: COVID-19 vaccines did not kill 29,939 people in Europe
There is no established causal relationship between these deaths and vaccination.
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False: This video does not show China using livestock transport trucks to move people to quarantine
The misleading video has been edited. A longer version shows the truck was evacuating people out of flooded roads.
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False: This video does not show Hong Kongers singing a patriotic song in a mall on National Day
A different audio track was added to old footage taken during the 2019 Hong Kong protest.
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False: Image of white man with ‘Black Lives Matter’ flag standing on the back of two Black people is digitally manipulated
The “Black Lives Matter” flag is taken from another photo and was added to what appears to be an older tourist image.
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