Misleading: These Weibo GIFs do not show Russia dropping a ‘small nuclear bomb’
A Chinese blogger posted images that have nothing to do with the Russian attack on Bakhmut, Ukraine. Annie Lab found no evidence of FAB-3000 dropped on the city.
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A Chinese blogger posted images that have nothing to do with the Russian attack on Bakhmut, Ukraine. Annie Lab found no evidence of FAB-3000 dropped on the city.
ReadA five-year-old photo of an ambulance donation from China to Ukraine was used in recent online posts with a claim that the vehicles were given this year in January. But Annie Lab found no record of such donation by Beijing to Kyiv since the war in Ukraine began a year ago.
ReadIt is a composite of different footage featuring protesters hurling Molotov cocktails with slingshots in Ukraine in 2014 and in Hong Kong in 2019.
ReadThe earliest version of the same video we found was posted in 2019, three years before Russia announced drafting 300,000 more reservists in the ongoing war with Ukraine in late September.
ReadThe two participated in the Annual Warrior Competition held by the Jordanian Armed Forces in Amman in 2014.
Read有關封面設計只是《經濟學人》內部曾考慮的其中一個排版初稿,最終付諸印刷的封面只有中國國家主席習近平和普京的頭像。
ReadThe flag shows the symbol of the uprising in Kyiv in 2014 known as the Revolution of Dignity in Ukraine.
ReadThe video was doctored with stitched video frames and spliced audio track. In the original video of the full interview, he said he doesn’t use drugs but he is into coffee and gets his energy from daily exercise.
ReadThe montage mixes a live news broadcast in Ukraine with an unrelated clip using green screen technology, according to the TikTok user who made it.
ReadThe image is one of the mock-up designs explored by the magazine. The published cover features only Putin’s face overlapping the face of Chinese President Xi Jinping.
ReadWHO routinely collaborates with member states on the safety and security of labs. Bioweapon allegations have been debunked by scientists.
Read影片顯示的是2019年在巴西舉行的UNITAS海上軍事演習。
ReadThe video shows a demonstration held by climate activists against Vienna’s climate policy on Feb. 4, not casualties in the recent conflict between Ukraine and Russia.
ReadThe image is manipulated. The original shows Putin holding his father’s portrait in 2015.
ReadThe video shows participants in Operation UNITAS LX, a multinational maritime exercise hosted by Brazil in 2019.
ReadThe GIF is a clip from a 2017 CCTV video about China’s People’s Liberation Army Rocket Force.
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