Multiple posts on Facebook and Korean social media platforms claim that Germany closed 66 Chinese government-funded Confucius Institutes. The claim is misleading; the article referenced in the posts reports that 66 organisations in “the Western sta
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Liste→ Misleading claim circulates online that Philippine Supreme Court justice has been ‘removed’ from participating in poll dispute case
A video has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times on YouTube and in multiple online posts which claim it shows that a Philippine Supreme Court justice has been "removed" from participating in a vice presidential poll dispute case. The claim is mis
Full Fact - All content→ It’s misleading to compare the effectiveness of Covid-19 vaccines and the death rate
A Facebook post has claimed that as the Moderna vaccine for Covid-19 is reporting 94.5% effectiveness, then it is less effective than the survival rate from the disease without a vaccine. The comparison with the reported effectiveness of the Moderna va
Liste→ “World Doctors Alliance” shares false and misleading claims about the Covid-19 pandemic
A video shared hundreds of times on Facebook shows a panel of medical practicioners presenting various claims about Covid-19, with one denying that the pandemic exists and calling the virus “normal flu”. Experts have used scientific evidence repeat
Liste→ Four-year-old video of Chinese air raid siren circulates in misleading posts about standoff in India’s Ladakh
A video has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times in posts that claim it shows a "super loudspeaker" that the Chinese military is deploying against Indian soldiers in Ladakh. The claim is misleading: the video is actually four-year-old footage o
AllSides - Facts and Fact Checking→ Twitter labeled 300,000 ‘potentially misleading’ election tweets
https://nypost.com/2020/11/13/twitter-has-put-warning-labels-on-300000-election-tweets/ Twitter says it
Liste→ Misleading claim circulates online about Supreme Court warning to Philippine Vice President Robredo over poll dispute case
Multiple Facebook posts shared in November 2020 claim that the Philippine Supreme Court has warned Vice President Leni Robredo to stop publicly discussing a poll dispute case filed against her by losing opponent Bongbong Marcos. The posts are misleadin
Liste→ Korean social media posts share misleading claim about ballots ‘found in trash’ in Pennsylvania
Multiple posts shared hundreds of times across social media platforms in South Korea in November 2020 claim military ballots cast for US President Donald Trump were found in a dumpster in the US state of Pennsylvania. Comments on the posts by some Kore
Liste→ Facebook posts share misleading ‘fraud’ claim after Chinese courier package spotted at US election ballot count
An image of a Chinese courier service package at a ballot count in the US state of Georgia during the 2020 presidential election has been shared in multiple Korean-language Facebook posts. The posts claim the image is evidence of Chinese infere
Liste→ Misleading claim circulates online that Seoul government has introduced a scheme allowing bicycles on all buses city-wide
Multiple Korean-language posts published on various social media platforms in November 2020 claim that South Korea’s Seoul Metropolitan Government has introduced a new scheme that allows bicycles on all buses. But the claim omits important context;
Liste→ Misleading claim circulates in Burmese about WHO ‘designating’ Russia’s Covid-19 vaccine as official inoculation
A Burmese-language blog post, which has been shared repeatedly on Facebook, claims that the World Health Organization (WHO) has designated the Russian Covid-19 vaccine as the official inoculation against the coronavirus. The claim is misleading: the W
Liste→ Misleading claims circulate online in Thailand that Singapore treats anyone older than seven as adult in court of law
Multiple Facebook and Twitter posts shared thousands of times claim that Singapore treats anyone older than seven years old as an adult in the criminal court system and suggest that Thailand should adopt a similar system. The posts claim youths aged ov
Liste→ Misleading claim circulates on Facebook that the former Philippine human rights chief defended an Islamic State-linked militant group
A photo showing former Philippine human rights chief Etta Rosales speaking to reporters has been shared several times on Facebook alongside a purported quote by her, in which she says the Islamic State-linked Maute group are “defenceless” and “pi
FactCheck.org→ Misleading Claim of Dead Registered Voters in Pennsylvania
Quick Take A misleading claim that more than 21,000 registered voters in Pennsylvania are dead is circulating online. The figure comes from a conservative group that failed to convince a federal judge in October that its list was accurate. Full Story
Liste→ Misleading video and claims circulate following the reported hacking of Philippine broadcaster ABS-CBN’s YouTube account
A video has been viewed more than a hundred thousand times on YouTube and shared in multiple online posts that claim it shows a statement released by YouTube regarding disabled channels of Philippine broadcaster ABS-CBN. The video, however, omits impo
Liste→ Misleading claim circulates online that Aung San Suu Kyi lost seat in Myanmar election before result was announced
A video has been viewed tens of thousands of times in multiple Facebook posts alongside a claim that Myanmar's civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi lost her seat in the Myanmar election on November 8, 2020. The claim is misleading; as of the morning of No
Liste→ Misleading viral posts claim Philippine Supreme Court passed law to imprison unfaithful husbands
A claim that the Philippine Supreme Court "passed" a new law that could "imprison husbands proven to be unfaithful" has been shared thousands of times in multiple posts on Facebook in October 2020. However, this claim omits important context: the Su
Liste→ Misleading claim circulates online that US President Trump told people to vote for Myanmar’s NLD
A doctored picture of US President Donald Trump has been shared thousands of times on Facebook alongside a claim that he has just won the US presidential election and urges Myanmar to vote for the ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) in their upc
FactCheck.org→ Trump Misleadingly Claims That Ballot Count Was ‘Called Off’
President Donald Trump misleadingly said early in the morning after Election Day that ballot counting in states where he was leading had been “called off,” baselessly suggesting there was something suspicious happening. Similar complaints w
Fact-Checking – Poynter→ Trump tweeted five times in two hours and was labeled as ‘misleading’ three times
It’s been a tough morning for President Donald Trump on Twitter. Between 10 a.m. and noon Eastern, he tweeted five times and had three of his posts labeled by the social media company as potentially “misleading about an election or other civic
Liste→ Misleading claims circulate in Indonesia that no one has died from Covid-19 alone
A video has been viewed tens of thousands of times on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok alongside a claim that not a single Covid-19 patient died solely because of the novel coronavirus but instead due to complications of other diseases. The claim is fals
Liste→ Days from presidential election, candidates’ misleading claims endure
As the US awaits election day on November 3, misleading claims from President Donald Trump and his opponent Joe Biden are circulating on hot-button issues from the Covid-19 pandemic to the economy, healthcare and housing. AFP Fact Check debunks misinf
Liste→ Misleading photo used to denounce environmentalists’ opposition to fracking
A photo montage circulating online suggests environmentalists are hypocritical for opposing fracking, by pointing to the ecological devastation of lithium production for electric cars. However, the post misleadingly uses a photo of a copper mine to ill
FactCheck.org→ Trump’s Misleading Attacks on Biden Over Fracking
President Donald Trump and his allies continue to ignore Joe Biden’s written plan to only prohibit permits for new oil and gas drilling on federal land and waters. That plan would allow for extraction methods, such as fracking, to continue under
Liste→ Misleading claim spreads online that Jacinda Ardern ‘bribed New Zealand media’ to win re-election
Multiple Facebook and Instagram posts shared hundreds of times in October 2020 claim New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern “bribed New Zealand mainstream media with NZ$125 million" taken from the country's taxpayers in order to win re-election.
Liste→ Misleading claim spreads online that flu vaccines administered in South Korea in 2020 were made in China
Multiple posts shared repeatedly on Facebook and Twitter in October 2020 claim that more than 40 South Koreans have died after receiving a flu vaccine that was imported from China. The posts suggest that all flu vaccines recently administered in South
Liste→ Misleading claim circulates online that substandard canned fish was distributed in Sri Lanka
A photo of a newspaper report claiming that 25 containers of substandard canned fish were distributed in Sri Lanka has been shared hundreds of times in multiple Facebook posts in October 2020. The claim, however, omits important context; Sri Lankan
Liste→ Misleading claim circulates that World Bank and IMF were established by former dictator Ferdinand Marcos and Filipino nationalist
Multiple posts shared repeatedly on Facebook claim the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) were established by former dictator Ferdinand Marcos and Filipino nationalist Jose Rizal. The claim is misleading; the World Bank and the IMF we
Liste→ Misleading claim spreads online that Sri Lankan opposition politicians wore ‘bullet wound’ sticker to protest drug lord’s death
Multiple Facebook posts shared hundreds of times claim a group of Sri Lankan opposition politicians wore a sticker resembling a bullet wound in protest over the death of a notorious drug lord. The claim is misleading; a spokesperson for the group, who
FactCheck.org→ Misleading Messages on Gasoline Prices
Quick Take Eric Trump misleadingly claimed on social media that gasoline was $5 per gallon “under O’Biden,” but “unbelievably good” during his father’s administration. The average retail price of gasoline while Barack Obama was
Liste→ Ads feature misleadingly edited clip on Biden tax plan
Political action committees are using a video clip of Joe Biden speaking at a campaign event to claim that the Democratic presidential candidate said he would raise taxes. This is misleading; Biden was speaking to a specific person in the audience, not
Liste→ Misleading claim spreads online that majority of sanitary towels in South Korea contain cancer-causing chemicals
Multiple posts on Facebook and Naver, South Korea’s largest web portal, claim that 97% of sanitary towels in distribution in South Korea contain chemicals that can cause cancer. The claim, however, is misleading; the data cited in the misleading po
Liste→ Misleading claim circulates online that Australian state leader would travel to AFL final, skipping quarantine
Multiple Facebook posts shared hundreds of times in October 2020 claim that Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews is travelling to Queensland for the Australian Football League grand final, skipping quarantine. The claim is misleading: Andrews said he wou
Liste→ Social media posts share misleading claim that Australia’s Victoria state premier has a net worth of $91 million
Multiple Facebook posts have shared a claim that Daniel Andrews, the premier of the Australian state of Victoria, has a net worth of $91 million. This claim is misleading; there is no evidence of such a figure being disclosed; the register of financial
AllSides - Facts and Fact Checking→ Trump is averaging more than 50 false or misleading claims a day
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/10/22/president-trump-is-averaging-more-than-50-false-or-misleading-claims-day/
Liste→ Photo of former Thai PM’s ex-wife wearing pro-monarchy yellow shared in misleading context after pro-democracy protests
A photo that shows the ex-wife of former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra wearing yellow -- a colour associated with the monarchy -- has been shared repeatedly on Facebook in October 2020. The posts, published shortly after large pro-democrac
Claim-Reviews – Health Feedback→ Claims that flu cases are used to inflate COVID-19 case counts are misleading, based on inaccurate numbers
REVIEW Facebook posts which show a screenshot from The Ingraham Angle, a television talk show on Fox News Channel, displaying the caption “flu cases down 95%” went viral in mid-October 2020. The screenshot purportedly shows the number of flu cas
WaPo Fact Checker→ Trump is averaging more than 50 false or misleading claims a day
In the final weeks of the election, the president is in hyperdrive — and is on track to exceed 25,000 false or misleading claims by Election Day.
FactCheck.org→ Trump’s Misleading Medicare Boast
In a Florida speech about senior citizens, President Donald Trump made misleading comparisons of Medicare costs under his administration and his predecessor’s. Trump claimed “premiums for Medicare health plans went up” under the Obama
Liste→ Misleading claim says Harris jailed 1,500 Black men for marijuana
A Facebook post criticizing Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris’s record as a prosecutor has been shared more than 200,000 times weeks before the November 3 election. However, the post misrepresents incarceration statistics and also