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Misleading: These images of street sign and police are not related to China’s COVID-19 protests

Wulumuqi Zhong Road in Shanghai has not been renamed. The image of a police officer holding a “white paper” comes from a 2021 video.

4 min readDec 28, 2022

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Misleading: These images of street sign and police are not related to China’s COVID-19 protests

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误导：网传中国公厕有人看管的照片为旧图与近期公厕抗议字句无关

此照片早于2010年已在网上流传，其后多次被不同博主引用，发文讨论中国公厕卫生条件状况。

3 min readDec 21, 2022

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误导：网传中国公厕有人看管的照片为旧图与近期公厕抗议字句无关

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Misleading: Group singing of ‘The Internationale’ was performed in 2021 as celebration, not…

The video was produced last July to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party.

2 min readDec 8, 2022

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Misleading: Group singing of ‘The Internationale’ was performed in 2021 as celebration, not…

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Misleading: Liaison Office photo was taken months before Jiang Zemin’s death

The viral photo is a screen capture of a TV news report in April. Many people in Hong Kong also paid their respects to Jiang Zemin.

3 min readDec 5, 2022

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Misleading: Liaison Office photo was taken months before Jiang Zemin’s death

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Misleading: Video shows Chengdu Marathon, not people taking PCR tests in China

The video shows marathon participants waiting for the start on Nov. 20, 2022.

3 min readDec 4, 2022

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Misleading: Video shows Chengdu Marathon, not people taking PCR tests in China

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False: Elon Musk’s ‘buying TikTok’ tweet was created by modifying HTML

The user who made the fake tweet says it was created by changing HTML codes.

3 min readNov 25, 2022

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False: Elon Musk’s ‘buying TikTok’ tweet was created by modifying HTML

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Misleading: Video shows Yiwu market in Shenzhen, not Zhejiang’s world’s largest wholesale market

The video has nothing to do with the famous Yiwu International Trade City in Zhejiang, also known as the Yiwu market, which was locked down

3 min readNov 23, 2022

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Misleading: Video shows Yiwu market in Shenzhen, not Zhejiang’s world’s largest wholesale market

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Misleading: Image of peacocks wrapped in cardboard has nothing to do with COVID-19 test

This photo was posted in March 2019, months before the pandemic began, when the birds were brought to the Yunnan Arts University in China.

3 min readNov 22, 2022

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Misleading: Image of peacocks wrapped in cardboard has nothing to do with COVID-19 test

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Misleading: Kids spacesuit is for celebrating China’s space mission, not for preventing COVID-19

Many children wore spacesuit costumes at school’s sporting events to celebrate China’s successful launch of Shenzhou-12 and 13.

3 min readNov 21, 2022

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Misleading: Kids spacesuit is for celebrating China’s space mission, not for preventing COVID-19

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False: This video shows fire in Daegu, not near Halloween crowd crush at Itaewon in Seoul

The fire in Daegu, a city about 240 kilometers from Seoul, broke out on the same night the widely-reported crowd surge occurred in Itaewon.

3 min readNov 19, 2022

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False: This video shows fire in Daegu, not near Halloween crowd crush at Itaewon in Seoul

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A fact-checking project by journalism students at the University of Hong Kong, in collaboration with ANNIE (an educational NPO). https://annielab.org

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