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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Investigation: Death of a mother and newborn baby neglected by a game-addicted husband — a recycled tale since 2017
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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Misleading: This video does not show China using a large sonic gun to harass Indian soldiers
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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False: This photo does not show 12 arrested Hong Kongers being led into a courthouse in Shenzhen
The image shows seven defendants charged with drug-related crimes walking into the courthouse of Taihe County, Anhui province.
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Misleading: Video of wall collapsing in flood was shot in Indonesia, not China
The video was taken in January in West Java, Indonesia, during heavy rainfall.
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No evidence: China is not suspending passport renewal to force Chinese nationals overseas to return
Dozens of Chinese embassies around the world are not processing passport renewals due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
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False: Image of flooded dormitory room is old and digitally manipulated
The objects in the water appear to have been digitally added as many of them are identical duplicates.
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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: 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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Verified: Popular People’s Daily tweet supporting LGBTQ in China is real but was taken down
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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Analysis: Japan’s reported refusal to condemn China contradicts earlier statement expressing ‘serious concerns’ over national security law
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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