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Source of original article: Oiwan Lam / Global Voices (globalvoices.org) . This story is based on a research of Factcheck Lab, a Hong Kong-based fact-checking agency and a media partner of Global Voices. The author is also a member of the organization’s research team. News reports and social media posts have emerged on the Chinese-speaking internet since September 22 inaccurately claiming that World Health Organization (WHO) Chief Scientist, Dr. Soumya Swaminathan, said China’s COVID-19 vaccines “have proved to have an effect.†Those reports and posts cite as a source an one-minute video produced by China Central Television for the Chinese...
