Polygraph
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Nicolás Maduro
President of Venezuela
“From tomorrow #24May, after the arrival from China of 1,300,000 vaccines, a new phase in immunization against the Pandemic begins. We will complete the care for health workers, education [workers] and patients with diseases that increase their vulnerability.”
Read more...Maduro offered no details about the arrival of Chinese vaccines or his vaccination plan. Venezuela has struggled to vaccinate even its most vulnerable. -
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Maria Zakharova
Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman
“Everything is mixed up in the house of Zelensky. Volodymyr Oleksandrovych celebrating Vyshyvanka Day in a kosovorotka (Russian traditional shirt) is priceless.”
Read more...In fact, Zelenksy’s choice of holiday attire wasn’t Russian – just a lesser-known traditional Ukrainian design. -
![Norbu Tsering, Pempa Tsering, Liu Xinyong and Wang Zehao]()
Norbu Tsering, Pempa Tsering, Liu Xinyong and Wang Zehao
Xinhua journalists
“Tibet makes great strides in 70 years after peaceful liberation.”
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BELTA
Belarusian state media outlet
“… Minsk was asked to accept the plane. The situation was immediately reported to the President. Lukashenka gave an unconditional command: turn the plane around and take it. In this situation, the most important thing is the safety and lives of people!”
Read more...Claims of a bomb on a Ryanair flight are phony. The plane was forced down to arrest a journalist critical of the Belarus dictator. -
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Erik Solheim
President, Green Belt and Road Initiative
“This is incredible! China is testing it’s [sic] new autonomous electric train that does not need traditional tracks. It runs on a virtual track. Can go everywhere.”
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![S. Vishnu Vardhan Reddy]()
S. Vishnu Vardhan Reddy
BJP general secretary for the state of Andhra Pradesh
“Till date we have vaccinated 18cr+ [180 million+] Indians.”
Read more...185 million vaccine doses have been administered to date in India, but 144 million people have received at least one dose and 41 million have been fully vaccinated. -
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Yevgeny Popov
Russian state TV host
“In Reykjavik, for the first time after Joe Biden's seizure of the White House, an official face-to-face contact between the Russian Federation and the United States took place.”
Read more...Joe Biden did not seize the White House, he won the 2020 U.S. presidential election -
![Liu Xin and Chen Qingqing]()
Liu Xin and Chen Qingqing
Co-lead the Global Times China desk
“This is the first time that the Xinjiang regional government held such a reception for Eid al-Fitr … [showing] the region's sincerity and openness amid outside slander, as Xinjiang has nothing to hide.”
Read more...China’s campaign to deflect rights abuse accusations comes as Western states, rights groups demand U.N. access to Xinjiang. -
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Press TV
Iranian state TV channel
“Iran's domestically-manufactured Fighter Jet Simorgh as it performs its test flights.”
Read more...Simorgh is a remodeled Northrop F-5, the American fighter jet sold to Iran prior to 1979. -
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Malaysian Twitter users
“When Israel declared war yesterday with Malaysia, they were worried about going to hotspots... for fear of being attacked. Remember a few years ago there was a Palestinian killed in Malaysia by an Israeli agency. This is serious …, we are at war.”
Read more...While Israel has allegedly conducted targeted killings abroad, it has declared no intention of going to war with Malaysia -
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Hua Chunying
Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson
“[It] is a complete distortion of facts to accuse China of suppressing foreign media and denying US journalists visa.”
Read more...While the U.S. and China engage in tit-for-tat over media credentials, China’s actual suppression of reporters is a separate issue. -
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Anti-vaxxers’ Social Media Networks
“Impossible not to share. That's the way, the end of the road to this insufferable inexplicable maze. ARE WE ALLOWING IT?”
Read more...On social media, thousands of antivaxxers have shared an image of a woman wearing a phony vaccine ear tag.
