Misleading: Two pictures in this collage show protesters in Turkey, not Myanmar
While some images show the scenes from the ongoing protests in Myanmar, others are old photos taken in Turkey in 2011 and 2013.
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Non-altered (not manipulated) evidence is used out of context or in a misleading way. The key evidence may be fact-based, but the claim and information associated with the evidence is not true.
Misleading: These rescue photos do not show Vietnamese working for ‘illegal islands’ in the South China Sea
The crew members had been stranded on a grounded dredger for three days that had just completed a construction work in the Cua Viet channel.
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Misleading: Number of confirmed COVID-19 cases at Japan’s airports does not correspond to domestic cases in China
Annie Lab found the popular online calculation has no validity. Three datasets do not show what the claim implied at all.
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Misleading: This video does not show Hong Kongers being transported to “re-education camps”
It shows supporters of jailed activists Joshua Wong and two others bidding farewell when the trio left court after sentencing, not being sent to re-education camps.
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Misleading: This video does not show closed stores in Shanghai or China’s economic collapse
The Nanjing Road in this video is not in Shanghai. It is located in one of the counties of Jiangsu province.
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Misleading: This video shows kindergarten education in China, not Japan
Children being taught about public transportation etiquette were from Xinjiang, China.
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Misleading: This video does not show China using a large sonic gun to harass Indian soldiers
The original video was produced in 2016. It shows a fire alarm, not a sonic gun. It has nothing to do with the China-India conflict in 2020.
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Misleading: This video shows failed rocket launch in Japan, not China
The rocket in the video was actually developed in Japan by a startup company Interstellar Technologies. The Japanese rocket, named MOMO-2, failed to launch and exploded more than two years ago on June 30, 2018, in the northern island of Hokkaido.
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Misleading: Popular coronavirus origin video by Hong Kong legislator consists of unsubstantiated conspiracy claims
Pro-establishment legislator Ann Chiang Lai-wa’s popular video features a number of misleading and false claims that have been debunked.
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Misleading: US health agency did not find Chinese herbal medicine 连花清瘟 effective in COVID-19 treatment
The study in question was actually conducted by researchers in China and published in a journal by a Dutch company.
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Misleading: Giant hogweed seeds are not immediately dangerous and there’s no evidence mysterious mail from China contains them
There is no verifiable report of unsolicited packages from China containing giant hogweed seeds.
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Misleading: Video of wall collapsing in flood was shot in Indonesia, not China
The video was taken in January in West Java, Indonesia, during heavy rainfall.
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Misleading: Popular photo of USSR flag-waving protestors not related to this year’s Black Lives Matter movement
The two-year-old image has been used misleadingly by activists and politicians, sometimes in comparison with the protests in Hong Kong.
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Misleading: COVID-19 vaccines not ready for clinical comparison or pricing
Two vaccines for COVID-19 are still in the experimental stage and nobody can determine their price or effectiveness right now.
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Misleading: Some photos and videos are not related to ‘grain stock fires’ in Chinese cities
The photo was shot in the US and the video was filmed last year at a cooking oil storehouse.
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Misleading: City engulfed in flood waters in popular video is not Chongqing, China
The video was taken in Genoa, Italy, either in 2011 or earlier. It was not filmed this year, or in 2019 or 2014.
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Misleading: Popular tornado video is old and not filmed in Beijing or Xilinhot
The powerful tornado shown in the video was actually filmed in Kaiyuan, Liaoning, a year ago.
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Misleading: ‘Lennon Walls’ were not spared because the head of the city department supports protest movement
Official document shows the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department cleared ‘Lennon Walls’ 950 times at 295 locations in nine months.
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Misleading: This photo does not show ‘anti-police education’ in a classroom
The event took place in the foyer of the Admiralty Centre shopping arcade, not in a school of any kind, in 2014.
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Misleading: Satellite images of warped Three Gorges Dam in China are not accurate
The “distortion problem” is a common phenomenon. Those images are a mosaic of satellite and aerial photographs taken on different dates.
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