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.
The video is from a live broadcast of GTV, an online platform known for its anti-Communist Party stance and push for misinformation and conspiracy theories.
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The official residence of the President of the United States was lit up in pink to celebrate the beginning of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
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In this article, Annie Lab delves into three unverified social media content about Afghanistan in turmoil
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The image showing people standing on passenger boarding steps was not taken in Afghanistan. It’s from a 14-year-old video shot in California.
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The misleading Facebook and Weibo posts featured a collage of two old news photos taken from local news media outlets.
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Online posts claimed the Chinese Communist Party started “brainwashing” kids in Hong Kong recently, backed with a video of kindergarten pupils in a flag-raising ceremony. However, it was produced in 2015, according to a media interview with the kindergarten principal.
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The 2013 article has nothing to do with the current COVID-19 pandemic. The study mentioned in the story does not conclude coronaviruses can be human-made.
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The radiation levels remained consistent. A nuclear expert says a comparison with Fukushima is pointless as readings are ‘well within the safety limit’.
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The insignia and logo in the uniforms and caps belonged to the Karen National Police Force, a police unit of an organization seeking autonomy for the Karen ethnic group.
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A tweet suggested the U.S. President Joe Biden has created what looks like “concentration camps” at the U.S.-Mexican border but the embedded video clip actually shows a COVID-19 quarantine site in Yunnan province, China.
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The photo claims to show a man named Zin Myo Maung being shot in Kalay in Myanmar. However, the photo was taken in Yangon and does not show him.
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Photos in the tweet are either old news photos or stock photos. None of the photos was taken in Myanmar or related to the ongoing protests.
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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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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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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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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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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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Children being taught about public transportation etiquette were from Xinjiang, China.
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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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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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