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This AFP photo actually shows a container filled with rubbish in Indonesia

Published on Wednesday 22 January 2020 at 03:00
A photo of a rubbish-filled shipping container has been shared thousands of times in multiple posts on Facebook alongside a claim that Thailand receives tens of thousands of tonnes of "rubbish" per month from 81 countries worldwide. Research by an NGO found that Thailand imports used plastics scraps from 81 countries, but the photo is being used in a misleading context. In fact, the picture was taken by AFP and shows a shipping container loaded with rubbish in Indonesia, not Thailand. 
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No, one of these photos shows a park in south Thailand -- it does not show a littered park after a pro-government event in Bangkok

Published on Monday 20 January 2020 at 06:25
Three photos have been shared tens of thousands of times in multiple Facebook and Twitter posts in January 2020 alongside a claim that one of them shows rubbish left behind by pro-government activists in Thailand’s capital of Bangkok and the other two show the aftermath of an anti-government event at another Bangkok park. The photos have been shared in a misleading context; the first photo shows the aftermath of a family event in Yala Province in the south of Thailand; the other two photos were indeed taken after an anti-government event in Bangkok.
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This photograph actually shows a Pokemon GO event in Taiwan

Published on Thursday 16 January 2020 at 08:45Updated on Friday 17 January 2020 at 09:22
A photo has been shared more than one thousand times on Facebook alongside a claim that it shows a pro-government event at a park in Thailand's capital Bangkok. The photo was shared as satire; it actually shows people gathering for a Pokemon GO event in Taiwan in October 2019.
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This photo actually shows a Thai artist's metal sculpture of a snake

Published on Monday 30 December 2019 at 04:45
A photo has been shared hundreds of thousands of times in multiple posts on Facebook and Twitter alongside a claim that it shows a snake after it swallowed a tortoise whole. The photo has been shared in a misleading context; it actually shows a sculpture made by a Thai artist who told AFP it was taken during preparations for an exhibition in Bangkok in 2014.
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