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Just in case: ‘Vaccination robot’ in this video is 3D computer graphics :)

4 November 2021

The CGI video was originally posted on May 30, 2021, by a TikTok creator specializing in visual effects.

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COVID-19 Fact check False

False: This video does not show a man vandalizing ‘vaccine passport verification’ machines

15 October 2021

The video was taken in 2017. It shows an intoxicated man thrashing self check-in machines at the Incheon International Airport, according to a news report.

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COVID-19 Fact check False

False: China’s double-dose COVID-19 vaccine vial is neither ‘fake’ nor ‘of different grade’

11 October 2021

The new vaccine package was officially approved by medical authorities, according to a doctor from the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention who spoke in a webinar in May.

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COVID-19 Fact check Verified

Verified: This video shows protestors dancing at an anti-COVID restrictions demonstration in Netherlands

11 October 2021

The viral video shows people dancing to club music on the streets who were protesting against the social distancing restrictions and nightlife ban on Sept. 11.

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COVID-19 Fact check False

False: This photo does not show ‘Australian protester’ with rubber bullet wounds; it shows a man in Argentina in 2015

5 October 2021

The photo shows a demonstrator in a labor dispute in Buenos Aires on Dec. 22, 2015, according to the Associated Press. It has nothing to do with the anti-vaccine mandate protests in Melbourne in September 2021.

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COVID-19 Fact check No evidence

No evidence for ‘autoimmune diseases caused by COVID-19 vaccination’

17 August 2021

Experts say there is no scientific proof to support the claim that vaccination has led to any of the diseases mentioned in the tweet (only one of which is actually an autoimmune disease).

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COVID-19 虛假 Fact check 中文

虛假：網傳英國六成新冠住院患者已打針致病情嚴重實引用錯誤數據

17 August 2021

英國政府首席科學顧問在記者會上錯誤引述疫情數據的片段和相關評論，被上載到Twitter一個時評帳戶。但其實該名科學顧問早已就口誤澄清，而相關不實陳述亦早被多個事實查核組織破解。

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COVID-19 Fact check False

False: 60 percent of hospitalized COVID-19 patients in the UK did not develop serious or critical conditions ‘due to vaccination’

12 August 2021

The Chinese tweet with the false claim was posted after the British expert corrected his misspoken statistics. Similar claims in English were also debunked by fact-checking organizations before the post was made.

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