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False: 60 percent of hospitalized COVID-19 patients in the UK did not develop serious or critical conditions ‘due to vaccination’
A tweet on July 23 claimed that among the hospitalized COVID-19 patients in the U.K., 60% of them had developed serious or critical conditions “due to vaccination.”
The Twitter account is associated with News Insight, an Epoch Times video program featuring opinions on current affairs.
The tweet included a video of Tucker Carlson Tonight, the Fox News current affairs program in the United States.
In the clip, the host, Tucker Carlson, commented on the effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccines and
虛假：新冠疫苗不會令人體有磁性
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目前香港提供科興和BioNTech（復必泰）兩款新型冠狀病毒疫苗。香港大學微生物學系臨床助理教授薛達（Siddharth Sridhar）指出，接種新冠疫苗不會「令人體有磁性（cause the body to be magnetic）」，疫苗亦不含有磁性的成分。
虛假：港大學生會遷出會址時沒破壞校園或堵塞通道
聲稱港大學生會破壞校園的帖文，實則錯誤引用兩張2019年反修例運動期間的照片。
False: German scientist did not say vaccination caused the delta variant in a recent conference
A Chinese post on Twitter claimed on June 26 that a German scientist, who is also a politician, has “admitted” the emergence of the delta variant was “triggered by vaccination.”
The tweet had over 370 likes and 230 retweets before being removed for violating the platform’s rules.
The tweet included two screenshots. One shows the image of a search result information box about Karl Lauterbach, a German epidemiologist and a member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD).
The other displays a video
False: COVID-19 vaccines do not make you magnetic
Various social media posts have suggested human bodies become magnetic following vaccinations for COVID-19. These posts are often accompanied by images of metals such as tableware sticking to human bodies.
The claim can be found on various platforms such as Facebook and Twitter (here and here).
A Twitter user, for example, writes in this post in Chinese, “Amazing! An Indian man became “magneto” after vaccination? Apart from fever and dizziness after vaccination, an Indian man from Maharashtra
False: No office property damaged or street blocked during the eviction of Hong Kong University Students’ Union
A tweet posted on July 17 claimed the Hong Kong University Students’ Union (HKUSU) damaged its office and blocked the pathways to the HKU train station before handing over the office to the university.
Two pictures in the post showed barricades made of furniture and bins blocking an escalator and the MTR station exit. The tweet reads, “they used the same method to destroy Hong Kong in 2019” and it has more than 350 likes and 138 retweets.
A user on Weibo has used the same set of images in a po
虛假：蔡英文會見美國參議員下跪圖片實遭人篡改 影片證站立發言
原圖只拍攝到蔡英文大腿及以上的部分，跪下的雙腿來自另一張南韓國會照片，而從總統府發布的影片可見，蔡英文發言時正在站在地上。
虛假：日揆短片字幕遭捏造 以獎牌利誘印度不參與奧運屬虛構
莫迪被節錄的部分說到「We are the world’s two most populous countries and among the fastest-growing major economies（我們是世界上人口最多的兩個國家，亦是增長最快的主要經濟體之一）」，這部分可在國際戰略研究所片段24分38秒見到。
False: Japanese prime minister did not say India will get medals for not coming to the Olympics
On June 7, a video on Facebook featuring Indian and Japanese prime ministers Narendra Modi and Yoshihide Suga suggested that their speeches can be translated into Chinese as follows:
India: We are ready to participate in the Tokyo Olympics at any time! “印度：我們已随時準預参加東京奧運！India: We are ready to participate in the Tokyo Olympics at any time! 日本：只要你們不要来奖牌可全给你！
Japan: We’ll give you medals for not coming!”
However, these added subtitles in the clip were fabricated. Both speeches have nothing t
False: This photo is altered. Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen did not kneel before US senators
The image was manipulated to add Tsai Ing-wen’s lower legs. A video from the same scene shows her talking to the US senators while standing.
An image showing Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen kneeling before three U.S. senators was posted on Twitter on June 7. It gained more than 200 likes and has been retweeted over 20 times. The same image can also be found in other tweets (here and here).
The post insinuated that Tsai demonstrably exhibited subservience toward the U.S. but the image was manipul
Analysis: None of the eight claims about Fauci’s emails revealing COVID-19 ‘secrets’ is accurate
A social media post claims Fauci’s emails show he had known lockdowns were unnecessary and that asymptomatic people could not spread COVID-19, but a review of the emails tells otherwise.
Since over 3,000 pages of email correspondents by U.S. health official Anthony Fauci were made public on June 1, there has been a flurry of misleading and false claims about COVID-19 on social media.
This tweet posted on June 2, for example, lists eight such claims that are supposedly based on the newly-releas
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