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Published on 25/09/2019

The United Nations did not officially recognise Cantonese as a language rather than a dialect

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Published on 24/09/2019

These photos actually show pro-democracy demonstrations in Hong Kong in 2019

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Published on 23/09/2019

This photo shows Hong Kong students participating in a school event before mass pro-democracy protests in 2019

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Published on 20/09/2019

The impact of melting icebergs on rising sea levels, explained

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Published on 20/09/2019

These figures for the number of active coal-fired power plants in select countries are inaccurate

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Published on 20/09/2019

These images are actually from an Indian TV series

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Published on 19/09/2019

This video actually shows a blaze in a shopping mall in Malaysia, not Hong Kong

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Published on 19/09/2019

This video shows Saudi football fans honouring Prophet Muhammad at a match in Saudi Arabia

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Published on 18/09/2019

The Liberal Party’s housing policy does not include a capital gains tax on primary home sales

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Published on 18/09/2019

Canadian Conservatives and abortion: 2018 photo does not show full party vote

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Published on 18/09/2019

This photo shows Hong Kong protesters on a different rail line to the one where a train derailed

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Published on 17/09/2019

This AFP photo was captured back in 2014, during earlier civil unrest in Hong Kong

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Published on 17/09/2019

This video of Metallica has been manipulated -- they were playing the American national anthem

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Published on 17/09/2019

This video shows a woman throwing a box -- not a fire extinguisher -- at a Hong Kong police officer

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Published on 17/09/2019

Hong Kong broadcaster says this man is their employee -- not a ‘rioter’

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Published on 17/09/2019

This letter to Hong Kong police was not authorised by the Western Australia Police Force

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Published on 16/09/2019

This video was not filmed in Kashmir -- it has circulated since 2013 in reports about a police raid in Pakistan

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Published on 13/09/2019

Fired for wearing a hijab: truth and fiction on Quebec’s secularism law

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Published on 13/09/2019

Zambian farmer ‘greatly distressed’ by posts falsely identifying him as victim of South African violence

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Published on 12/09/2019

This is a doctored photo of Hong Kong activist Agnes Chow -- she was in fact holding an election document

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Published on 11/09/2019

No, South Africa’s Nigeria embassy has not been hit by a bomb blast

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Published on 11/09/2019

This video shows a South African police operation after a robbery in 2018 — not Nigerians being deported

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Published on 11/09/2019

Two Hong Kong school letters about student deaths are being used in a misleading context

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Published on 11/09/2019

This is not a photo of a Chinese military base in the Philippines -- it shows a tunnel in Switzerland

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Published on 11/09/2019

This house survived Hurricane Ike in Texas in 2008 -- not Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas

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Published on 10/09/2019

This video of Pakistan’s Imran Khan has nothing to do with India’s recent policy in Kashmir

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Published on 09/09/2019

This is a two-year old video that shows a teacher protest elsewhere in India

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Published on 06/09/2019

This woman told reporters Hong Kong police officers pepper sprayed her boyfriend

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