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
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: 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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Misleading: ‘Dead’ Hong Kong journalist image is artwork, not a staged news photo
Tommy Fung, a well-known photoshop artist, was working on his new artwork when the pictures were taken.
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Misleading: This US gun store robbery video is not related to the George Floyd protests
The claim is false. The footage actually shows a robbery in Houston that took place more than four years ago, on March 1, 2016.
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Misleading: Murder of Chinese researcher in the US is not related to COVID-19
Local police determined the case was a result of “a lengthy dispute regarding an intimate partner.”
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Misleading: Popular freedom of speech quote in China and Hong Kong is not from Plato
The passage was likely to be taken from an essay by Zhang Xuezhong, an outspoken Chinese scholar critical of the government.
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Misleading: This video does not show China’s Three Gorges Dam collapsing
It took place in southern Switzerland in 2012. Some 300,000 cubic meters of rock crashed 1,000 meters down to the valley floor.
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Misleading: This video does not show an American soldier trying to spread coronavirus in Wuhan
The video was taken in Brussels, Belgium, on March 10, 2020.
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Misleading: These charts about COVID-19 contain inaccurate medical information
Self-diagnosis based on these charts could be harmful.
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