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Misleading: These rescue photos do not show Vietnamese working for ‘illegal islands’

Misleading: These rescue photos do not show Vietnamese working for ‘illegal islands’

The crew members had been stranded on a grounded dredger for three days that had just completed a construction work in the Cua Viet…
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Aurora Xue
Misleading: Confirmed COVID-19 cases at Japan’s airports do not correspond to local cases in China

Misleading: Confirmed COVID-19 cases at Japan’s airports do not correspond to local 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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Olivia Wang
False: DOJ did not argue National Security Law has no presumption of innocence

False: DOJ did not argue National Security Law has no presumption of innocence

The DOJ clarified that the presumption of bail was the subject of argument in court instead.
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Cherry Lai
Misleading: This video does not show closed stores in Shanghai or China’s economic collapse

Misleading: This video does not show closed stores in Shanghai or China’s economic collapse

The Nanjing Road in this video is not in Shanghai. It is located in one of the counties of Jiangsu province.
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Xitian HUANG
Misleading: This video does not show Hong Kongers being transported to “re-education camps”

Misleading: This video does not show Hong Kongers being transported to “re-education camps”

It shows supporters of jailed political activists Joshua Wong and two others bidding farewell when the three left court after sentencing.
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Purple Chrystyl Romero
False: Mark Zuckerberg was not prosecuted for bribery related to the US election

False: Mark Zuckerberg was not prosecuted for bribery related to the US election

Mark Zuckerberg did donate a total of $400 million to Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL), but he was not prosecuted for any offense.
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Christina Chan
Just in case: Nope. A chair was not thrown out of the White House on live TV news

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

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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Olivia Wang
Misleading: This video shows kindergarten education in China, not Japan

Misleading: This video shows kindergarten education in China, not Japan

Children being taught about public transportation etiquette were from Xinjiang, China.
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Aurora Xue
Misleading: This video does not show China using a large sonic gun to harass Indian soldiers

Misleading: This video does not show China using a large sonic gun to harass Indian soldiers

The original clip 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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Duan Hanzi
False: This video does not show Uyghur children “being sold” by Chinese traffickers

False: This video does not show Uyghur children “being sold” by Chinese traffickers

This video has been manipulated. Unrelated audio was added to a video clip of a young child model.
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Katherine Cheng
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