Editor’s Note In June 2026, an X post adopting breaking-news formatting falsely alleged that Beijing summoned India’s ambassador and issued a formal diplomatic protest regarding memes referencing a so-called “Chinese...
Editor’s Note In June 2025, severe floodings struck Rongjiang County, Guizhou Province, leaving streets covered with mud and debris deposited by floodwaters. Local authorities led a large-scale cleanup effort and...
Editor’s Note Amid India-Bangladesh border tensions, a video circulated on X and was reposted across Facebook, Threads and Instagram, claiming to show Border Security Force (BSF) personnel warning people obstructing...
Editor’s Note On June 8, 2026, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck off the southern Philippine island of Mindanao. In the aftermath, two images spread on social media, purporting to show...
Editor’s Note On June 8, 2026, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck off the coast of Mindanao, Philippines. In the aftermath, videos labeled as “earthquake footage” went viral across X, Facebook,...
Editor’s note A claim has gone viral on social media and some news outlets in mid-May, alleging that “the U.S. delegation threw all Chinese gifts into a trash can before...
Editor’s Note Following the April 2026 hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius, several social media users circulated rodent-related footage, falsely attributing it to the event. Some clips spread across platforms...
Editor’s Note In early 2026, tensions among the United States, Israel, and Iran escalated into a conflict with significant regional and international implications. From late February to early May, a...
Editor’s Note According to an investigation by Asahi Shimbun, Japan’s crowdsourcing platform CrowdWorks has seen a surge in paid orders for producing videos related to China using AI tools, forming...
Editor’s Note A recent video claiming to show “the Chinese government using heavy machinery to destroy a temple in Xizang” has spread rapidly in multiple languages across social media platforms...
