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
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: 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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Misleading: This map does not show 5 million Wuhan residents flying out before the lockdown
The map is merely “an illustrative picture of the global air network” that shows international flight connections.
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Misleading: This bird was not killed by Hong Kong police tear gas
While the photo was not fabricated, it was taken in 2010 in the town of Berlin, Connecticut, U.S.
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Misleading: No formal invitation to Carrie Lam does not mean she was uninvited
Lam was among the expected informal guests along with dignitaries from Taiwan and Macao.
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Misleading: A photo showing Carrie Lam on her mobile phone was taken before the Japanese emperor enthronement ceremony began
The TV screencap was taken while dignitaries and heads of state were still arriving.
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Misleading: This Red Bull “freedom” video was not produced in support of the Hong Kong protests
It was made before the HK protests. Red Bull has produced a series of similar videos in multiple languages in the past.
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Misleading: MTR Corporation has not revised the end-user agreement since protests began
The clause that stipulates the conditions under which the MTR can share the user data has been in the agreement since 2014.
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Misleading: This photo does not show “rioters” setting fire to Junius Ho’s office
The photo was taken in Shandong Province on September 4.
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Misleading: This image does not show the brain hemorrhage of a Hong Kong pro-democracy protester
While the image is not fabricated, it has been on a radiology website called Radiopaedia since 2008.
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