False: This video does not show China using livestock transport trucks to move people to quarantine
The misleading video has been edited. A longer version shows the truck was evacuating people out of flooded roads.
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False: This video does not show Hong Kongers singing a patriotic song in a mall on National Day
A different audio track was added to old footage taken during the 2019 Hong Kong protest.
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Misleading: This discussion on ‘China’s plot to weaken US troops with vaccines’ is not organized by the Communist Party but by US website
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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False: This video does not show Chinese police ‘kidnapping’ a Uyghur girl in Xinjiang
It actually shows an officer trying to protect the girl from a bike coming at her. The video was taken in Suining, Sichuan, not in Xinjiang.
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Just in case: ‘Vaccination robot’ in this video is 3D computer graphics :)
The CGI video was originally posted on May 30, 2021, by a TikTok creator specializing in visual effects.
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False: ‘Falling dust,’ mobile phones and haircut do not prove Chinese astronauts are not in space
An expert said dust particles may appear in space due to ambient air activity. Mobile phones can also work as internet access in space is made possible through satellite communication.
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False: Image of US Army general receiving a Huawei phone from a Chinese general is manipulated
The image is a composite of multiple pictures. Each person, the flags, and the gift box are all taken from different photos.
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False: This headline has been altered. China did not claim the Communist Party fought against ‘99%’ of the invading Japanese army
The original article in the Nan Guo Morning Post (南国早报) puts it at 60 percent.
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False: Olympics medal table with China on top is neither official nor authentic; images have been doctored
Misleading medal tables that show China with the most number of golds are doctored images.
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False: A whale and crocodiles in floodwaters digitally added; images not taken in China, either
The photos and videos of flooded cities were taken in Mexico and Russia. The animals added in post-production are old images.
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False: Video of Chinese astronauts standing straight in space does not imply it is fake
Multiple news reports and videos show their legs are attached to foot restraints to keep them in upright position.
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Misleading: This 2013 article refers to MERS, not COVID-19, and did not say coronaviruses are human-made
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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False: This simulation video does not show Japan’s treated water from Fukushima ‘polluting half of the Pacific ocean in 57 days’
The video is nine years old and has nothing to do with Japan’s plan. The clip has also been cropped to make the covered area in the ocean appear bigger than in the original video. The speed of spreading is accelerated.
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False: These images do not show Myanmar soldiers setting Chinese-owned factories ablaze
The photo showing a Myanmar soldier holding a Molotov cocktail is manipulated. The original image is about an anti-coup demonstration in the northwestern town of Kalay, Myanmar on March 2, which has nothing to do with the burning of Chinese-owned factories on March 14.
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Analysis: An old photo from 2019 Hong Kong protests circulates in Myanmar with the same false claim
Annie Lab’s analysis indicates the photo shows a protester with an air gun, not ‘an armed undercover Hong Kong police officer instigating violence.’
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Misleading: This video does not show Mexican immigrants in “storage containers” in the US; it shows mobile homes at a quarantine site in China
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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Misleading: These photos do not show the Burmese burning the Sino-Myanmar pipeline
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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False: This picture does not show Chinese soldiers helping Myanmar’s military ‘destroy’ the internet
The photo shows PLA Navy soldiers. It was taken in Dec. 2017 during combat drills in the East China Sea. It has nothing to do with the current status of the internet shutdown in Myanmar.
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Misleading: These rescue photos do not show Vietnamese working for ‘illegal islands’ in the South China Sea
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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Misleading: Number of confirmed COVID-19 cases at Japan’s airports does not correspond to domestic cases in China
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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