Hong Kong
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A graphic aired by Hong Kong channel TVB appeared to show that countries including Canada, the UK and New Zealand had postponed key elections due to the novel coronavirus. The graphic was broadcast after Hong Kong delayed its September elections for a year because of the pandemic.
An image purporting to show Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Agnes Chow holding a gun during a "secret military training" has been shared repeatedly in multiple posts on Facebook and online forums. The claim is false; the image actually shows Japanese actress Hiroe Igeta in a scene from a Japanese television series.
A graphic shared hundreds of times in multiple posts on Facebook in Hong Kong contains a claim that government-issued press credentials are required in China, the UK, the US and Singapore. The posts, which circulated during Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests, suggest the territory should also make it mandatory for journalists to obtain government-issued press passes.
A video has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times in multiple posts on Facebook and Twitter July 2020 alongside a claim it shows a rally in the southern Chinese city of Dongguan inspired by the 2014 Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong.
Multiple posts on Facebook, Twitter and on online forums claim that Hong Kong police have issued 4,000 fines of HKD$2,000 to diners who failed to wear face masks at a local restaurant chain during the coronavirus pandemic.
When China's Communist Party announced the lifting of the lockdown in Wuhan, Wang Fang sat down at her keyboard, as she had done for the previous 60 evenings. "I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith," the Chinese novelist wrote, quoting the Bible.
