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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.
Annie Lab looks into the supposed ‘evidence’ mentioned in a tweet that claims that the safety of Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine was determined based on lab tests on pregnant rats, not humans.
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The video was taken in the city of Lianjiang in Guangdong on Feb. 20, 2021. It has nothing to do with the violent attack on four women in a restaurant in Tangshan on June 10, 2022.
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Annie Lab looks into an article about Hong Kong’s COVID-19 fifth wave published by a known anti-vaccine website in the United States.
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The flag shows the symbol of the uprising in Kyiv in 2014 known as the Revolution of Dignity in Ukraine.
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Hundreds of people indeed waited outside the stores across the city, but the photo shows a long queue at a shopping mall in Malaysia.
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The image is one of the mock-up designs explored by the magazine. The published cover features only Putin’s face overlapping the face of Chinese President Xi Jinping.
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WHO routinely collaborates with member states on the safety and security of labs. Bioweapon allegations have been debunked by scientists.
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The video shows a demonstration held by climate activists against Vienna’s climate policy on Feb. 4, not casualties in the recent conflict between Ukraine and Russia.
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The video shows participants in Operation UNITAS LX, a multinational maritime exercise hosted by Brazil in 2019.
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The photo shows a dog cull in Yunnan Province in April 2006.
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The GIF is a clip from a 2017 CCTV video about China’s People’s Liberation Army Rocket Force.
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The police told Annie Lab that seven men and 15 women were taken to the Pok Oi Hospital for COVID-19 nucleic acid testing recently.
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All members of the panel were using earpieces to hear the audio.
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The video is from a live broadcast of GTV, an online platform known for its anti-Communist Party stance and push for misinformation and conspiracy theories.
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The official residence of the President of the United States was lit up in pink to celebrate the beginning of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
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In this article, Annie Lab delves into three unverified social media content about Afghanistan in turmoil
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The image showing people standing on passenger boarding steps was not taken in Afghanistan. It’s from a 14-year-old video shot in California.
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The misleading Facebook and Weibo posts featured a collage of two old news photos taken from local news media outlets.
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Online posts claimed the Chinese Communist Party started “brainwashing” kids in Hong Kong recently, backed with a video of kindergarten pupils in a flag-raising ceremony. However, it was produced in 2015, according to a media interview with the kindergarten principal.
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The 2013 article has nothing to do with the current COVID-19 pandemic. The study mentioned in the story does not conclude coronaviruses can be human-made.
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The radiation levels remained consistent. A nuclear expert says a comparison with Fukushima is pointless as readings are ‘well within the safety limit’.
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The insignia and logo in the uniforms and caps belonged to the Karen National Police Force, a police unit of an organization seeking autonomy for the Karen ethnic group.
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A tweet suggested the U.S. President Joe Biden has created what looks like “concentration camps” at the U.S.-Mexican border but the embedded video clip actually shows a COVID-19 quarantine site in Yunnan province, China.
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The photo claims to show a man named Zin Myo Maung being shot in Kalay in Myanmar. However, the photo was taken in Yangon and does not show him.
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Photos in the tweet are either old news photos or stock photos. None of the photos was taken in Myanmar or related to the ongoing protests.
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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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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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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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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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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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