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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Annie Lab’s analysis shows that the picture in question shows a protester with an air gun, not an armed undercover Hong Kong police officer instigating violence.
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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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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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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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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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This unsubstantiated story is not new. It is a variation of an anecdote that has been recycled again and again by content farms since 2017.
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The original video was produced in 2016. It shows a fire alarm, not a sonic gun. It has nothing to do with the China-India conflict in 2020.
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The image shows seven defendants charged with drug-related crimes walking into the courthouse of Taihe County, Anhui province.
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The video was taken in January in West Java, Indonesia, during heavy rainfall.
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Dozens of Chinese embassies around the world are not processing passport renewals due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
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The objects in the water appear to have been digitally added as many of them are identical duplicates.
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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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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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The tweet was later taken down but a screen capture of the English message posted on Weibo was widely shared in China.
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Japanese government earlier issued a statement expressing ‘serious concerns’ over China’s decision to impose a national security law in HK.
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The man appears to be part of a TV crew from China, covering the protest.
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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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Research on virus mutations has been misinterpreted while conspiracies and propaganda spread in China.
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