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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 old remarks by a delegate of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference were falsely associated with this year’s parliamentary sessions in March.
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A misleading tweet implied Zhu did not applaud Xi at the annual assembly in March, although Zhu has not been seen at any major party functions for more than five years. Also, the image was taken after Zhu stopped clapping in 2017.
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A Chinese blogger posted images that have nothing to do with the Russian attack on Bakhmut, Ukraine. Annie Lab found no evidence of FAB-3000 dropped on the city.
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Two of the four factories are still operating, while the other two were reportedly shut down for losses incurred before the pandemic.
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The viral video shows one of the world’s largest landfills in Bantar Gebang in Bekasi on the outskirts of Jakarta in Indonesia.
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A five-year-old “invisibility cloak” video was falsely linked to some “new technologies” developed in China or Japan, but it actually shows a simple chroma key post-production effect.
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Annie Lab examined some popular social media content posted after the devastating quakes in Turkey and Syria.
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The picture was taken in the U.K. in 2008. It has nothing to do with the news report on the UFO spotted in Shandong in February.
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Misleading social media posts claiming a UFO was spotted and shot down by Polish Air Force came with a video that showed a South Korean rocket test in December 2022.
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Annie Lab sourced the original video to a WeChat user and geolocated it at Yanshi district, of Henan province’s Luoyang city. The crowds that spilled into traffic were actually gathering for a Lantern Festival public fireworks show, according to the WeChat user.
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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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