Misleading: Apple and Google Maps have been calling Taiwan a “province” for years, not just after Pelosi’s visit
The controversy surrounding Taiwan’s status on the two maps goes back for more than a decade.
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Misleading
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 videos have nothing to do with recent wildfires or climate change
Annie Lab looked into two video clips claiming wildfires are manmade, which also implied climate change is not real.
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Misleading: Video does not show celebrations after Italian PM’s resignation
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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Misleading: Video does not show fire in Vatican City
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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Misleading: Image sequence reversed to make watermelons appear stolen from Abe’s memorial
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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Analysis: Viral social media posts about Dutch farmers’ protests
Annie Lab investigated two images used in misleading social media posts about the ongoing farmers’ protests in the Netherlands.
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Misleading: Video shows a rescue robot in Japan, not Communist Party’s ‘corpse picker’
The Japanese rescue robot is called Robocue. The Tokyo Fire Department introduced it in 2009.
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Misleading: Although CO2 facilitates plant growth, excessive amount could be harmful as well
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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Misleading: Photo of litter-filled street does not show the aftermath of climate protest in Netherlands
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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Misleading: ATMs in Shanghai were never suspended over fears of virus-carrying banknotes
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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Misleading: Boris Johnson took off his shoes out of respect, not because they are broken
The image shows the British premier following Indian custom before entering the Gandhi Ashram during his visit to India on April 21, 2022.
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Analysis: Misleading claims about Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine safety for pregnancy
Annie Lab looks into the supposed ‘evidence’ mentioned in a tweet that claims that the safety of Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine was determined based on lab tests on pregnant rats, not humans.
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Misleading: Video shows violent dispute in Guangdong, not recent assault in Tangshan
The video was taken in the city of Lianjiang in Guangdong on Feb. 20, 2021. It has nothing to do with the violent attack on four women in a restaurant in Tangshan on June 10, 2022.
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Investigation: Misleading claims about masks and vaccines in Hong Kong’s 5th wave
Annie Lab looks into an article about Hong Kong’s COVID-19 fifth wave published by a known anti-vaccine website in the United States.
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Misleading: Pope Francis was not holding a Ukrainian flag with Nazi symbol
The flag shows the symbol of the uprising in Kyiv in 2014 known as the Revolution of Dignity in Ukraine.
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Misleading: Photo in Malaysia was used to illustrate Swatch craze in Hong Kong
Hundreds of people indeed waited outside the stores across the city, but the photo shows a long queue at a shopping mall in Malaysia.
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Misleading: ‘Shirtless Putin on a panda’ image was not used by the Economist
The image is one of the mock-up designs explored by the magazine. The published cover features only Putin’s face overlapping the face of Chinese President Xi Jinping.
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Misleading: WHO asked Ukraine to destroy pathogens in public health labs, not bioweapons
WHO routinely collaborates with member states on the safety and security of labs. Bioweapon allegations have been debunked by scientists.
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Misleading: This video shows a climate protest, not corpses in Ukraine
The video shows a demonstration held by climate activists against Vienna’s climate policy on Feb. 4, not casualties in the recent conflict between Ukraine and Russia.
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Misleading: Video shows naval forces exercise in Brazil, not volunteer-soldiers in Ukraine
The video shows participants in Operation UNITAS LX, a multinational maritime exercise hosted by Brazil in 2019.
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