Misleading: Image of peacocks wrapped in cardboard has nothing to do with COVID-19 test
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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@HKU School of Future Media
Misleading
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.
Misleading: Kids spacesuit is for celebrating China’s space mission, not for preventing COVID-19
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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Misleading: This ‘eerie’ video does not show people following China’s strict COVID rules
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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Misleading: This photo has nothing to do with protest messages in China’s public bathrooms
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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Misleading: Media’s Guangzhou protest coverage includes old video from 2017
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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False: Video shows fire in Hebei, not Beijing’s Xizhimen Hotel
The fire occurred in the Nanxinglong residential area in the city of Chengde in Hebei province.
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Misleading: Anti-Chinese government banner was hung in Los Angeles, not in Guangzhou
Self-proclaimed advocate for the independence of Guangdong province staged a protest in the U.S.
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Misleading: Protest in Chongqing happened last year over parking fees, not last month over social restrictions
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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Misleading: This dark building is not where victims of fatal Guizhou bus accident lived
All 45 passengers lived in another district. The misleading photo shows an unrelated building six kilometers away.
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Misleading: Graduation video is manipulated. It does not show a speech at Peking University
The popular video combines footage of a graduation ceremony in Macau with an unrelated audio track.
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