The claim is accompanied by non-altered evidence but it is used out of context or in a demonstrably misleading way. The key evidence may be fact-based, but the claim and information associated with the evidence are not true.
The 2022 study by researchers at an Osaka-based university actually recommends the hygienic use of masks and cautions people, especially those with immune issues, against repeated use of the same masks to avoid potentially pathogenic microbes that can grow on the surface.
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Wulumuqi Zhong Road (乌鲁木齐中路) in Shanghai was not renamed to Wu Zhong Road (乌中路). The image of a police officer holding a “white paper” comes from a two-year-old public services announcement video.
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The video was produced last July to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party. It has nothing to do with recent COVID-19 protests in the country.
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The viral photo is a screen capture of a TV news report in April. Many people in Hong Kong also lined up and offered flowers to the deceased former Chinese president outside the Liaison Office on Dec. 1.
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The video actually shows marathon participants waiting for the start on Nov. 20, 2022.
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The video has nothing to do with the famous Yiwu International Trade City in Zhejiang, also known as the Yiwu market, which was locked down only for 10 days in mid-August.
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This photo was posted in March 2019, months before the pandemic began, when the birds were brought to the Yunnan Arts University in China.
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China successfully launched its Shenzhou-12 and 13 spacecraft in 2021. Many children wore spacesuit costumes at school’s sporting events that year.
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The video consists of two pieces of footage. One shows students wearing white raincoats, and the other shows construction workers building a makeshift hospital in Shanghai.
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This image is at least 12 years old. It has nothing to do with recent anti-Chinese government messages found in public restrooms.
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BBC, Al Jazeera and other news organizations included five-year-old footage from Qingyuan that has nothing to do with the recent protests in Guangzhou.
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The fire occurred in the Nanxinglong residential area in the city of Chengde in Hebei province.
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Self-proclaimed advocate for the independence of Guangdong province staged a protest in the U.S.
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The viral video was filmed in July 2021. The protest broke out in one of the Evergrande residential complexes in the city, according to news reports.
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All 45 passengers lived in another district. The misleading photo shows an unrelated building six kilometers away.
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The popular video combines footage of a graduation ceremony in Macau with an unrelated audio track.
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The police car was seized by a man after an officer tried to intervene in an altercation between the man and a woman in Jiangsu province in 2019.
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Local reports say people ran in panic after a shooting scare at a travelling carnival in Texas on Sept. 23.
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The video shows a military exercise called Valiant Shield in the South China Sea in 2020.
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Some internet users say China published a new map to include many disputed areas and Taiwan, but the map in question is not new. The so-called “10-dash line” has been around for decades.
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The controversy surrounding Taiwan’s status on the two maps goes back for more than a decade.
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Annie Lab looked into two video clips claiming wildfires are manmade, which also implied climate change is not real.
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The first half of the video shows a 2021 mass protest in Rome against a vaccine pass mandate. The second half features a taxi drivers’ demonstration against a bill related to ride-hailing services.
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The fire took place more than 10 kilometers away from the headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church. It reportedly started in an archaeological park in an area called Centocelle in eastern Rome.
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Annie Lab reached out to a journalist who also took photos of the roadside memorial around the same time. The two slices of watermelon were placed later than the flowers on the ground.
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Annie Lab investigated two images used in misleading social media posts about the ongoing farmers’ protests in the Netherlands.
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The Japanese rescue robot is called Robocue. The Tokyo Fire Department introduced it in 2009.
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Experts say increased carbon dioxide impacts the natural ecosystem as a whole. The science of climate change has advanced since the 1920 experiment mentioned in the misleading tweet.
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The photo has nothing to do with the protest. It shows a trashed area outside the Ziggo Dome in Amsterdam before the concert of singer Billie Eilish.
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Banking services in Shanghai were suspended during the lockdown from mid-March to the end of May 2022. In June, they were fully in operation.
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