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Viral global claim
“Infertility is one of the long-term side effects of COVID-19 vaccines.”
Source: Social MediaRead more...Claims that COVID-19 vaccines result in sterilization are baseless: Scientists and health professionals find no link between the vaccines and fertility. -
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Chin Malin
Ministry of Justice spokesman
“[T]he authorities have acted in accordance with legal procedures, and the courts conducted the trial based on procedure and made decisions based on the facts and existing legal aspects.”
Read more...Opposition members were denied right to due process in ‘rubber stamp’ court proceedings. -
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Dmitry Peskov
Russian presidential spokesperson
"I, to my shame, now cannot remember what kind of assistance America has provided to Russia recently ... I am not aware of any help."
Read more...The U.S. has provided aid to Russia on multiple occasions –recently and even a century ago. -
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Nicolás Maduro
President of Venezuela
"One year into the creation of the Presidential Commission on Prevention and Fighting Covid-19, I can say with certainty that we have built a method to serve our people and protect their lives."
Read more...The video’s glossy telling overlooks chronic breakdowns in Venezuela’s healthcare system. -
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Jair Bolsonaro
President of Brazil
“A German university says that [masks] are harmful to children, and show several aspects like irritability, headache, difficulty concentrating, decreased perception of happiness, refusal to go to school or daycare, discouragement, impaired learning ability, dizziness, fatigue.”
Read more...Because they didn’t conduct a controlled study, the German report’s authors themselves say they can’t conclude that coronavirus masks are harmful to kids. -
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StanceGrounded
Twitter account
“U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East This is Syria! For a country that doesn’t want refugees, they sure do love creating them. If you don’t want refugees, STOP CREATING THEM! AND STOP VOTING FOR POLITICIANS WHO LOVE BOMBING THE [expletive] OUT OF OTHER COUNTRIES!”
Read more...The widely circulated video does not show damage from the U.S. attack on Al Bukamal; it deceptively shows Homs, a city ravaged by the Assad regime. -
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Dmitry Peskov
Russian presidential spokesman
"It is indeed impossible to recognize the annexation of Crimea, and nobody is talking about the annexation of Crimea, because it never happened.”
Read more...The United Nations has dismissed an invalid referendum and called on Russia to end its occupation of the peninsula. -
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Denmark’s Politiken daily newspaper
Danish daily newspaper
“Animal market in Bangkok could be the place that brought corona to Wuhan”
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Dmitry Polyanskiy
First Deputy, Russia’s U.N. mission
"[W]e should thank our Ukrainian colleagues, who have been saddling and mercilessly exploiting the role of victim of so-called Russian aggression for about seven years."
Read more...Russia’s incitement of aggression in Eastern Ukraine and involvement in the ongoing conflict are based on abundant evidence. -
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Jorge Arreaza
Venezuelan foreign minister
"To use false arguments against honorable citizens in reaction to the frustration of a group of member states of the European Union for the manifest ineffectiveness of their actions to force a change of government by force in Venezuela is nothing more than another reckless decision … "
Read more...Newly imposed EU sanctions on Venezuelan government officials are based on credible accusations of human rights violations, not “false arguments.” -
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RT
Russian state broadcaster
“…U.S. intelligence and security agencies declared that the hack was ‘likely Russian in origin.’ This echoed evidence-free mainstream media claims as well as their own language in ‘assessments’ out the 2016 election."
Read more...Although the SolarWinds hack remains under investigation, Western media have reported evidence implicating Russia. -
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Irakli Gharibashvili
Prime Minister of Georgia
“People tired of [a] tough decade had hopes for the so-called Rose Revolution, as a result, instead of an imaginary development, we ended up with a ruined economy in a hopeless state.”
Read more...By many measures, Georgia’s Rose Revolution in 2003 led to mostly positive effects on the country, a former Soviet republic.
