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The claim cannot be substantiated with evidence in any way. Used when the information is very likely made up, or a group of information is illogically connected in statements — a conspiracy theory, for instance.
There is no credible evidence to support claims that due to security concerns, a large number of Christmas markets in Germany have been canceled. City officials and local tourism boards have confirmed most markets will go ahead as planned.
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Internet users occasionally bring up the decade-old “Bridge of Life” campaign in South Korea even now, claiming that the suicide prevention measures in 2012 unintuitively contributed to more people jumping off the bridge. Annie Lab looked into what really happened.
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Annie Lab’s investigation traced the origin of the allegations to unrelated donations by another individual.
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The festival was carried out on Feb. 7 and Feb. 12 as scheduled; videos collected by Annie Lab show no sign of government interference.
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Our investigation shows the earliest appearance of the altered table that placed China at the top was posted on Weibo soon after the U.S. won the last gold medal in women’s basketball.
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None of the sources of information in the claim is reliable or verifiable. The accompanying images include an irrelevant US warship. Official statements are misleadingly used out of context.
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Hotel staff said there was no bombing within its vicinity in June. Images linked to the claim shows irrelevant locations that were destroyed in 2022.
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Experts say there is no scientific proof to support the claim that vaccination has led to any of the diseases mentioned in the tweet (only one of which is actually an autoimmune disease).
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Peer-reviewed studies on ivermectin and the expert interviewed by Annie Lab indicate such claims have no scientific ground.
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A Facebook Post by Hsu Lung-chun claimed the Japanese government pressured NHK to shelve the interview with Lee Teng-hui for 5 years in response to the Chinese government’s objection. But the interview was partially aired in 2015 and touched upon politically sensitive issues.
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