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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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: 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-wan’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 Lianhua Qingwen 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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