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Feb 8, 2023 • 15 tweets • 5 min read
THREAD🧵: @ReutersFacts detected several unrelated and old videos and images falsely linked to the devastating earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria on Feb. 6. Here are some examples of how misinformation often spreads online following a catastrophe: A clip of a red wooden cabin being swept away by a storm surge was filmed in Greenland in 2017, not Turkey reut.rs/3JR3JgV
Jun 21, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Unfounded and debunked claims that the results of the 2020 U.S. general election, when Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump, saw significant voter fraud continue to circulate online as the country gears up for midterm elections scheduled for November reut.rs/3aw6lRH This article provides information and context on how voter fraud in the U.S. is not a “widespread” issue as some online commentators claim, but made exceedingly rare by existing safeguards reut.rs/3aw6lRH
May 25, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Contrary to claims online, the WHO is not planning to strip member states of their sovereignty by implementing a ‘pandemic treaty’ during an annual meeting in May 2022 reut.rs/3wI2nya A WHO spokesperson told Reuters that it’s up to the 194 member states to make “sovereign decisions”; it’s “the WHO’s role to support these countries in taking actions to protect and promote their citizens’ health”.
Feb 24, 2022 • 16 tweets • 6 min read
While authentic footage and images shared by journalists and local residents documented Russia's invasion of Ukraine (see: reut.rs/3vk9mx3), @ReutersFacts also identified mislabeled imagery Image A video first uploaded to social media in Jan. 2022 showing lightning strike at a power plant is being shared online with misleading captions relating to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine reut.rs/3t1JTpm
Jan 27, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Users on social media have miscaptioned videos and photos claiming to show the "Freedom Convoy" protest in Canada over the government’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for truckers. The thread below includes some examples. One video actually shows footage from the “United We Roll" convoy in Ottawa in 2019, where people protested the federal government’s energy and environmental policies reut.rs/3L1uM7B
Jan 21, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
The Metropolitan Police told @ReutersFacts that it has not launched a criminal investigation into Britain’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout, nor are officers shutting down vaccination centres as a result reut.rs/3nKrrzD (1/5) A crime reference number – CRN 6029679/21 - was issued after a complaint of an alleged crime regarding vaccine rollouts. A Met spokesman said that a CRN being issued does not automatically indicate a probe has been opened – nor does it mean that a crime has been committed (2/5)