Misleading: Giant hogweed seeds are not immediately dangerous and there’s no evidence mysterious mail from China contains them
There is no verifiable report of unsolicited packages from China containing giant hogweed seeds.
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annie lab
@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: Video of wall collapsing in flood was shot in Indonesia, not China
The video was taken in January in West Java, Indonesia, during heavy rainfall.
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Misleading: Popular photo of USSR flag-waving protestors not related to this year’s Black Lives Matter movement
The two-year-old image has been used misleadingly by activists and politicians, sometimes in comparison with the protests in Hong Kong.
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Misleading: COVID-19 vaccines not ready for clinical comparison or pricing
Two vaccines for COVID-19 are still in the experimental stage and nobody can determine their price or effectiveness right now.
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Misleading: Some photos and videos are not related to ‘grain stock fires’ in Chinese cities
The photo was shot in the US and the video was filmed last year at a cooking oil storehouse.
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Misleading: City engulfed in flood waters in popular video is not Chongqing, China
The video was taken in Genoa, Italy, either in 2011 or earlier. It was not filmed this year, or in 2019 or 2014.
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Misleading: Popular tornado video is old and not filmed in Beijing or Xilinhot
The powerful tornado shown in the video was actually filmed in Kaiyuan, Liaoning, a year ago.
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Misleading: ‘Lennon Walls’ were not spared because the head of the city department supports protest movement
Official document shows the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department cleared ‘Lennon Walls’ 950 times at 295 locations in nine months.
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Misleading: This photo does not show ‘anti-police education’ in a classroom
The event took place in the foyer of the Admiralty Centre shopping arcade, not in a school of any kind, in 2014.
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Misleading: Satellite images of warped Three Gorges Dam in China are not accurate
The “distortion problem” is a common phenomenon. Those images are a mosaic of satellite and aerial photographs taken on different dates.
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