May 23, 2024 The German government did not “admit” there was no coronavirus pandemic, contrary to social media posts that misrepresented documents from the country’s disease control agency. The baseless claim, which is the latest reincarnation of a conspiracy theory that the virus was faked, appeared to originate on a website that regularly peddles misinformation. […]
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May 21, 2024 A picture taken from a music video appearing to show astronauts posing on the Moon with their helmets off was falsely presented in Chinese social media posts as evidence the United States staged a lunar landing. The posts surfaced in May 2024 as China launched a probe to collect samples from the
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May 7, 2024 An old video showing a massive crowd demonstrating against a far-right party in Germany has resurfaced in Chinese social media posts viewed hundreds of thousands of times that falsely claimed it showed pro-Palestinian protests on a US college campus. The video was in fact filmed in Hamburg in January 2024 and is
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