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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: 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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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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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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