🔎 In January, a fabricated “screenshot” of Kamala Harris's X post circulated on social media.
We cannot find any record that shows Harris posted it. The image is first seen on Reddit, it also contains phrases like “Retweets” and “Quote Tweets” that are not used on X.
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The Chinese idiom "指鹿為馬", literally "point at a deer and call it a horse", originates from a historical story about using an obvious lie as a loyalty test and a way to demonstrate power and authority.
This is why Charlie, Factcheck Lab's deer mascot, wears a shirt that says "not a horse".
🌕 🚀 During the live broadcast of the launch Chang’e 6, CNSA's Pei Zhaoyu mumbled "didn't find that Apollo basin" when discussing the landing site.
These words were quickly misinterpreted as "evidence" that China couldn't find "the basin where Apollo spacecrafts landed".
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Two examples are (see the above images):
- "U.S. and Chinese astronauts went to different moon"
- "Huawei has infringed on the U.S.'s future intellectual property"
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Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, is often targeted by false claims in Chinese, alleging she made absurd statements during briefings.
Despite being easily fact-checkable, such misinfo spreads quickly among receptive audiences, even when blatantly false.
This fact-check addresses some "news reports" with clickbait titles from outlets in HK and TW that claim two women got a camel ride through Uber.
These "reports" are solely based on a promotional video on Instagram, with no evidence to support Uber's involvement.
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