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Just in case: Nope. A chair was not thrown out of the White House on live TV news

30 November 202016 February 2021 Yujie Wang Donald Trump, Jimmy Kimmel, US Elections, White House 2 min read

The screenshot comes from a parody video produced by Jimmy Kimmel Live, an American late-night talk show program, not news.

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False: This photo does not show Trump shedding a tear after the US elections

23 November 202016 February 2021 Jerome Lizambard AFP, Donald Trump, Getty Images, Nicholas Kamm, US Elections 1 min read

The image has been altered from an old news photo. In the original picture, Trump is not crying. His right eye is not red.

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False: This video does not show mail-in votes for Trump being dumped into a landfill

6 November 202019 February 2021 Purple Romero ballots, Democrats, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Republicans, Saudi Arabia, Secretariat of al-Qassim, US Elections 1 min read

This video was first posted in 2016. It shows packs of expired chicken being thrown out.

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Annie lab newsroom is a fact-checking project at the Journalism & Media Studies Centre at the University of Hong Kong (HKU Journalism), in collaboration with ANNIE (Asian Network of News & Information Educators), a not-for-profit educational organization that promotes news literacy in Asia through collaborative curriculum development.

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