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On Oct. 29, a Weibo post with a screenshot of Elon Musk's tweet in Chinese claimed Musk allegedly announced he will acquire Douyin and TikTok.

Musk is known for tweeting posts in Chinese sometimes. His "tweet" reads, when translated to English, "Now I am going to buy Douyin, including both the Chinese version (Douyin) and the international version (TikTok). Afterwards, I would delete those stupid laughing sound effects and background music."

The same screenshot was also shared on other Weibo posts ( here and here). Together, they have close to 600 likes and over 20 shares.

However, the claim is false. The tweet was not posted by Elon Musk. It is a prank tweet created by editing the HTML code.

The original version of this fake tweet was posted by a Weibo user "夏星繁" on April 28, along with a clarification that the content is "a prank [made] by modifying HTML code."

This image became popular in October as multiple Weibo accounts reposted it following the news that Musk has completed the acquisition of Twitter.

The author apologized after realizing the screenshot had gone viral on Oct. 30 and added a red "prank" sign on the original image.

The user wrote, "I stated that it was a prank when I first posted it, but I didn't think of putting a hoax sign on the screenshot. It caused confusion after being shared."

Annie Lab replicated the process to demonstrate how easy it is to modify HTML code to create a fake tweet and a screenshot in the video below:

Since Musk offered to buy Twitter in April, there have been many other fake tweets made to appear from his official account.

Previous examples have been fact-checked here and here by Indian fact-checking organizations vishvashnews.com and News Mobile.

Some of these tweets could have been confusing for some users because sometimes similar posts can be authentic. For instance, he did joke about buying Coca-Cola earlier this year.

Annie Lab could not verify whether or not Musk is indeed interested in acquiring Douyin or TikTok, but we can confirm that the image in question shows a made-up tweet.

Musk completed the acquisition of Twitter for $44 billion in October resulting in layoffs.

Douyin - including its international version Tiktok - is one of the most downloaded and profitable apps in the world and has reached approximately 3.3 billion installs globally.

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Irma is the strongest hurricane ever recorded, hitting a Category 6," Alex Jones, a reporter for the US website InfoWars, said on its Facebook page. However, the highest category in US is only level 5.

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Help Save The ENDANGERED

From EXTINCTION!

The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus

Rare photo of the elusive tree octopus
(Enhanced from cropped telephoto)

The Pacific Northwest tree octopus ( Octopus paxarbolis) can be found in the temperate rainforests of the Olympic Peninsula on the west coast of North America. Their habitat lies on the Eastern side of the Olympic mountain range, adjacent to Hood Canal. These solitary cephalopods reach an average size (measured from arm-tip to mantle-tip,) of 30-33 cm. Unlike most other cephalopods, tree octopuses are amphibious, spending only their early life and the period of their mating season in their ancestral aquatic environment. Because of the moistness of the rainforests and specialized skin adaptations, they are able to keep from becoming desiccated for prolonged periods of time, but given the chance they would prefer resting in pooled water.

An intelligent and inquisitive being (it has the largest brain-to-body ratio for any mollusk), the tree octopus explores its arboreal world by both touch and sight. Adaptations its ancestors originally evolved in the three dimensional environment of the sea have been put to good use in the spatially complex maze of the coniferous Olympic rainforests. The challenges and richness of this environment (and the intimate way in which it interacts with it,) may account for the tree octopus's advanced behavioral development. (Some evolutionary theorists suppose that "arboreal adaptation" is what laid the groundwork in primates for the evolution of the human mind.)

Reaching out with one of her eight arms, each covered in sensitive suckers, a tree octopus might grab a branch to pull herself along in a form of locomotion called tentaculation; or she might be preparing to strike at an insect or small vertebrate, such as a frog or rodent, or steal an egg from a bird's nest; or she might even be examining some object that caught her fancy, instinctively desiring to manipulate it with her dexterous limbs (really deserving the title "sensory organs" more than mere "limbs",) in order to better know it.

Map of estimated tree octopus maximum range, including spawning waters

Tree octopuses have eyesight comparable to humans. Besides allowing them to see their prey and environment, it helps them in inter-octopus relations. Although they are not social animals like us, they display to one-another their emotions through their ability to change the color of their skin: red indicates anger, white fear, while they normally maintain a mottled brown tone to blend in with the background.

The reproductive cycle of the tree octopus is still linked to its roots in the waters of the Puget Sound from where it is thought to have originated. Every year, in Spring, tree octopuses leave their homes in the Olympic National Forest and migrate towards the shore and, eventually, their spawning grounds in Hood Canal. There, they congregate (the only real social time in their lives,) and find mates. After the male has deposited his sperm, he returns to the forests, leaving the female to find an aquatic lair in which to attach her strands of egg-clusters. The female will guard and care for her eggs until they hatch, refusing even to eat, and usually dying from her selflessness. The young will spend the first month or so floating through Hood Canal, Admiralty Inlet, and as far as North Puget Sound before eventually moving out of the water and beginning their adult lives.

Why It's Endangered

Route 101, separating the rainforests of the Olympic Peninsula from Hood Canal

Although the tree octopus is not officially listed on the Endangered Species List, we feel that it should be added since its numbers are at a critically low level for its breeding needs. The reasons for this dire situation include: decimation of habitat by logging and suburban encroachment; building of roads that cut off access to the water which it needs for spawning; predation by foreign species such as house cats; and booming populations of its natural predators, including the bald eagle and sasquatch. What few that make it to the Canal are further hampered in their reproduction by the growing problem of pollution from farming and residential run-off. Unless immediate action is taken to protect this species and its habitat, the Pacific Northwest tree octopus will be but a memory.

The possibility of Pacific Northwest tree octopus extinction is not an unwarranted fear. Other tree octopus species-including the Douglas octopus and the red-ringed madrona sucker-were once abundant throughout the Cascadia region, but have since gone extinct because of threats similar to those faced by paxarbolis, as well as overharvesting by the now-illegal tree octopus trade.

Tree Octopus hat from 1923

The history of the tree octopus trade is a sad one. Their voracious appetite for bird plumes having exhausted all the worthy species of that family, the fashionistas moved on to cephalopodic accoutrements during the early 20th Century. Tree octopuses became prized by the fashion industry as ornamental decorations for hats, leading greedy trappers to wipe out whole populations to feed the vanity of the fashionable rich. While fortunately this practice has been outlawed, its effects still reverberate today as these millinery deprivations brought tree octopus numbers below the critical point where even minor environmental change could cause disaster.

While efforts were made in the past to preserve remaining tree octopus habitat, these were met with resistance by the timber industry, which has traditionally viewed the tree octopus as a nuisance, both because the octopuses favor the valuable, moss-shrouded trees of old growth forests-pitting conservation needs against lucrative sources of lumber-and because octopuses hiding among felled trees often gummed up sawmills and stained pulp vats with their ink.

Traveling sideshow exhibits, such as this one by Glen "Bones" Hartzell from 1942, demonized tree octopuses to the ignorant masses
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These nuisances led many loggers to regard tree octopuses as bad luck, resulting in the pointless killing of octopuses on sight at logging camps in a misguided attempt at eradicating the troublesome species. Anti-octopus sentiment was so strong among loggers that some even began to fear that the octopuses were prone to attacking humans.

These fears were fueled in no small part by gratuitous stories involving tree octopuses harassing lumberjacks and distressing damsels in Northwestern-themed pulp magazines of the 1930-40s and variously "nipping", "entangling", or "suckering the flesh" of the heroes of men's action magazines of the 1950-60s. (The magazine publishers depended on cheap paper made from wood pulp and were glad to contribute to the anti-octopus propaganda campaign of the timber industry.)

To this day, misunderstanding and fear of these gentle creatures can still be found among many old timers, although education campaigns-and special octopus-separators installed at sawmills-have largely halted the practice of tree octopus eradication.

How You Can Help

More Tree Octopus Information

Posters motivate the citizenry to action! Post them!

Tree Octopus FAQs - Frequently asked questions, now with answers.

Tree Octopus Sightings - Includes photos of and behavioral research on the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus and other tree octopus species.

Tree Octopus In The Media - appearances of tree octopuses, both real and fictional, in the media and popular culture.

Research On Other Tree Octopus Species:

The author of this article and its subsections is Lyle Zapato.
This site is not associated with any school or educational organization,
other than the Kelvinic University branch of the Wild Haggis Conservation Society.
Not to be confused with the Pacific Northwest Octopus Tree.

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Image from space: The curved surface of the spherical planet Earth

Medieval artistic representation of a spherical Earth - with compartments representing earth, air, and water (c. 1400)

Spherical Earth or Earth's curvature refers to the approximation of the figure of the Earth as a sphere. The earliest documented mention of the concept dates from around the 5th century BC, when it appears in the writings of Greek philosophers. In the 3rd century BC, Hellenistic astronomy established the roughly spherical shape of Earth as a physical fact and calculated the Earth's circumference. This knowledge was gradually adopted throughout the Old World during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. A practical demonstration of Earth's sphericity was achieved by Ferdinand Magellan and Juan Sebastián Elcano's circumnavigation (1519-1522).

The concept of a spherical Earth displaced earlier beliefs in a flat Earth: In early Mesopotamian mythology, the world was portrayed as a disk floating in the ocean with a hemispherical sky-dome above, and this forms the premise for early world maps like those of Anaximander and Hecataeus of Miletus. Other speculations on the shape of Earth include a seven-layered ziggurat or cosmic mountain, alluded to in the Avesta and ancient Persian writings (see seven climes).

The realization that the figure of the Earth is more accurately described as an ellipsoid dates to the 17th century, as described by Isaac Newton in . In the early 19th century, the flattening of the earth ellipsoid was determined to be of the order of 1/300 ( Delambre, Everest). The modern value as determined by the US DoD World Geodetic System since the 1960s is close to 1/298.25.

Earth is massive enough that the pull of gravity maintains its roughly spherical shape. Most of its deviation from spherical stems from the centrifugal force caused by rotation around its north-south axis. This force deforms the sphere into an oblate ellipsoid.

The Solar System formed from a dust cloud that was at least partially the remnant of one or more supernovas that produced heavy elements by nucleosynthesis. Grains of matter accreted through electrostatic interaction. As they grew in mass, gravity took over in gathering yet more mass, releasing the potential energy of their collisions and in-falling as heat. The protoplanetary disk also had a greater proportion of radioactive elements than Earth today because, over time, those elements decayed. Their decay heated the early Earth even further, and continue to contribute to Earth's internal heat budget. The early Earth was thus mostly liquid.

A sphere is the only stable shape for a non-rotating, gravitationally self-attracting liquid. The outward acceleration caused by Earth's rotation is greater at the equator than at the poles (where is it zero), so the sphere gets deformed into an ellipsoid, which represents the shape having the lowest potential energy for a rotating, fluid body. This ellipsoid is slightly fatter around the equator than a perfect sphere would be. Earth's shape is also slightly lumpy because it is composed of different materials of different densities that exert slightly different amounts of gravitational force per volume.

The liquidity of a hot, newly formed planet allows heavier elements to sink down to the middle and forces lighter elements closer to the surface, a process known as planetary differentiation. This event is known as the iron catastrophe; the most abundant heavier elements were iron and nickel, which now form the Earth's core.

Later shape changes and effects

Though the surface rocks of Earth have cooled enough to solidify, the outer core of the planet is still hot enough to remain liquid. Energy is still being released; volcanic and tectonic activity has pushed rocks into hills and mountains and blown them out of calderas. Meteors also cause impact craters and surrounding ridges. However, if the energy release from these processes halts, then they tend to erode away over time and return toward the lowest potential-energy curve of the ellipsoid. Weather powered by solar energy can also move water, rock, and soil to make Earth slightly out of round.

Earth undulates as the shape of its lowest potential energy changes daily due to the gravity of the Sun and Moon as they move around with respect to Earth. This is what causes tides in the oceans' water, which can flow freely along the changing potential.

History of concept and measurement

The Erdapfel, the oldest surviving terrestrial globe (1492/1493)

The spherical shape of the Earth was known and measured by astronomers, mathematicians, and navigators from a variety of literate ancient cultures, including the Hellenic World, and Ancient India. Greek ethnographer Megasthenes, c. 300 BC, has been interpreted as stating that the contemporary Brahmans of India believed in a spherical Earth as the center of the universe. The knowledge of the Greeks was inherited by Ancient Rome, and Christian and Islamic realms in the Middle Ages. Circumnavigation of the world in the Age of Discovery provided direct evidence. Improvements in transportation and other technologies refined estimations of the size of the Earth, and helped spread knowledge of it.

Measurement and representation

Geodesy, also called geodetics, is the scientific discipline that deals with the measurement and representation of Earth, its gravitational field and geodynamic phenomena ( polar motion, Earth tides, and crustal motion) in three-dimensional time-varying space.

Geodesy is primarily concerned with positioning and the gravity field and geometrical aspects of their temporal variations, although it can also include the study of Earth's magnetic field. Especially in the German speaking world, geodesy is divided into geomensuration ("Erdmessung" or "höhere Geodäsie"), which is concerned with measuring Earth on a global scale, and surveying ("Ingenieurgeodäsie"), which is concerned with measuring parts of the surface.

Earth's shape can be thought of in at least two ways:

as the shape of the geoid, the mean sea level of the world ocean; or

as the shape of Earth's land surface as it rises above and falls below the sea.

As the science of geodesy measured Earth more accurately, the shape of the geoid was first found not to be a perfect sphere but to approximate an oblate spheroid, a specific type of ellipsoid. More recent[when? ] measurements have measured the geoid to unprecedented accuracy, revealing mass concentrations beneath Earth's surface.

References

1. ^ Cormack, Lesley B. (2015), "That before Columbus, geographers and other educated people knew the Earth was flat", in Numbers, Ronald L.; Kampourakis, Kostas (eds.), Newton's Apple and Other Myths about Science, Harvard University Press, pp. 16-24, ISBN 9780674915473

2. Continuation into Roman and medieval thought: Reinhard Krüger: "^ Materialien und Dokumente zur mittelalterlichen Erdkugeltheorie von der Spätantike bis zur Kolumbusfahrt (1492)"

3. ^ Jamil, Jamil (2009). "Astronomy". In Fleet, Kate; Krämer, Gudrun; Matringe, Denis; Nawas, John; Rowson, Everett (eds.). Encyclopaedia of Islam. doi:10.1163/1573-3912_ei3_COM_22652. ISBN 978-90-04-17852-6.

4. Direct adoption by India: ^ D. Pingree: "History of Mathematical Astronomy in India", Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Vol. 15 (1978), pp. 533-633 (554f.); Glick, Thomas F., Livesey, Steven John, Wallis, Faith (eds.): "Medieval Science, Technology, and Medicine: An Encyclopedia", Routledge, New York 2005, ISBN 0-415-96930-1, p. 463

5. Adoption by China via European science: ^ Martzloff, Jean-Claude (1993). "Space and Time in Chinese Texts of Astronomy and of Mathematical Astronomy in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries". Chinese Science. 11 (11): 66-92. doi:10.1163/26669323-01101005. JSTOR 43290474. Archived from the original on 2021-10-26. and Cullen, C. (1976). "A Chinese Eratosthenes of the Flat Earth: A Study of a Fragment of Cosmology in Huai Nan tzu 淮 南 子". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. 39 (1): 106-127. doi:10.1017/S0041977X00052137. JSTOR 616189. S2CID 171017315.

6. Pigafetta, Antonio (1906). Magellan's Voyage around the World. Arthur A. Clark. ^ [1]

7. See ^ Figure of the Earth and Earth radius § Global radii for details. Recent measurements from satellites suggest that Earth is actually slightly pear-shaped. Hugh Thurston, Early Astronomy, (New York: Springer-Verlag), p. 119. ISBN 0-387-94107-X.

8. ^ E. At. Schwanbeck (1877). Ancient India as described by Megasthenês and Arrian; being a translation of the fragments of the Indika of Megasthenês collected by Dr. Schwanbeck, and of the first part of the Indika of Arrian. p. 101.

Works cited

Needham, Joseph; Wang, Ling (1995) [1959]. Science and Civilization in China: Mathematics and the Sciences of the Heavens and the Earth. Vol. 3 (reprint ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-05801-5.

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MANCHESTER, NH - NOVEMBER 7: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign event at SNHU Arena in Manchester, NH on Monday November 07, 2016. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
"The Trump campaign has confirmed to Hannity.com that Mr. Trump did indeed send his plane to make two trips from North Carolina to Miami, Florida to transport over 200 Gulf War Marines back home."
- quote in article titled "200 Stranded Marines Needed A Plane Ride Home, Here's How Donald Trump Responded," Sean Hannity Show website, May 19, 2016
It seemed like such a sweet story - Donald Trump sending his personal plane down to Camp Lejeune, N.C., when 200 Marines were stranded after fighting in the 1991 Persian Gulf War. At least that is the story that Sean Hannity of Fox News has touted on his website for several months.

But a reader, Lazer Cohen of Brooklyn, was suspicious and asked The Fact Checker to check it out.

The Hannity story mostly relied on the recollections of Cpl. Ryan Stickney, who was a squad leader in a Marine Corps Reserve antitank (TOW) company that was called up for duty for the 1990-91 conflict that took place after Iraq invaded Kuwait. After five weeks of airstrikes, the United States and its allies ousted Iraqi forces in a 100-hour ground assault.

The command chronology shows that 209 officers and Marines of the TOW Company (part of the 8th Tank Battalion for Operation Desert Shield) were activated on Nov. 26, 1990. The company arrived in Saudi Arabia on Dec. 22 and served through the end of March, before returning to Camp Lejeune. Stickney is listed as receiving a certificate of commendation.

After a few weeks in Camp Lejeune, the part-time troops were scheduled to return to their base in Broward County. An article in the Sun-Sentinel newspaper on the April 22 homecoming reported that it had been "marred by flight delays," forcing well-wishers to wait for hours in the sun. The article said the Marines arrived on two flights, one at noon and one after 5 p.m.

"Stickney recalls being told that a mistake had been made within the logistics unit and that an aircraft wasn't available to take the Marines home on their scheduled departure date," Hannity.com reported. But then Trump supposedly came to the rescue: "The way the story was told to us was that Mr. Trump found out about it and sent the airline down to take care of us," Stickney said.

He even took a photo:

Our reader was suspicious because of the language "recalls being told." That sounds more like a rumor than any confirmation.

Moreover, take a close look at the photograph. That was not Trump's private plane at the time. That's a Boeing 727 jet that was part of a Trump Shuttle fleet - an airline that Trump briefly owned before it was essentially seized by the banks because he failed to make payments on his loans. It had a white fuselage.

Here's what Trump's private plane, with a dark fuselage, looked like in 1991:

Trump's private plane only had 24 seats, according to news reports; Trump Shuttle jets had at least 130 seats.

Trump had put the Trump Shuttle up for sale on April 27, 1990, but by September couldn't make loan payments and needed to cut a new deal with his bankers. By the time the TOW company went off to war, Trump had not paid interest on a $235 million Citibank loan for months.

When the warriors returned from Saudi Arabia, the banks had made it clear they would determine how and when the shuttle was sold. Trump was in such financial straits that he had even agreed to sell his personal jet for $6.5 million in a bid to raise cash.

So how did the Trump Shuttle end up helping the Marines at Camp Lejeune?

Well, it turns out when Trump bought the shuttle from Eastern Airlines, he made a bad deal, accepting an additional five planes instead of a lower purchase price because the market had turned south. As the Daily Beast noted, in an entertaining account of Trump's foray into the airline business, "the shuttle needed only 16 planes to operate a full hourly schedule at its three cities, with one or two jets as spares, and extra aircraft are anathema to an airline - they don't make money sitting on the ground."

So some of those extra planes were contracted out to the U.S. military to ferry personnel in the United States during Operations Desert Shield/Storm in 1990-1991. Lt. Gen. Vernon J. Kondra, now retired, was in charge of all military airlift operations. He said that relying on commercial carriers freed up the military cargo aircraft for equipment transport.

Kondra graciously checked his notes for The Fact Checker; the notes have been put into an oral history and declassified. There are several references to a 1990-91 contract for Trump Shuttle to carry personnel across the United States, between the East and West coasts, on a standard LaGuardia-Dover-Charleston-Travis-Chord-Kelly-Dover-LaGuardia run.

"It worked very well, and the crews loved it, and really thought that we'd done something special for them," Kondra recalled in the oral history. "It was a helluva lot better than using 141s [cargo craft], which we could use for something else."

But Kondra said the notion that Trump personally arranged to help the stranded soldiers made little sense. "I certainly was not aware of that. It does not sound reasonable that it would happen like that. It would not fit in with how we did business," he told The Fact Checker. "I don't even know of how he would have known there was a need."

Indeed, as we have noted, Trump at the time was in constant negotiations with his bankers, seeking to prevent financial ruin. Presumably he was rather busy.

More than likely, given the proximity of the Trump Shuttle to Camp Lejeune, a Trump Shuttle jet was dispatched from LaGuardia to pick up the troops and take them to Florida as part of the contract. The five-hour gap between arrivals in Broward County suggests that one plane was used to go back and forth between North Carolina and Florida.

We had a pleasant exchange of emails with Stickney, but he chose not to comment for the record after learning the results of our inquiry. (Stickney publicly told his story at a Trump rally in Houston in June.) Hannity and the Trump campaign did not respond to requests for comment.

The Pinocchio Test

Despite the rumors on base, it's clear that Trump had nothing to do with the dispatch of the jet to the troops stranded at Camp Lejeune. The aircraft that ferried the troops was part of the Trump Shuttle fleet, at a time when Trump barely had control over the airline and was frantically trying to negotiate deals with bankers to prevent the collapse of his business empire.

Trump Shuttle had a contract with the military, and this flight home was part of that contract. Simple as that.

Sean Hannity needs to prominently correct this article. The Trump campaign, meanwhile, earns Four Pinocchios for confirming a story that is easily debunked.

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- quote in article titled "200 Stranded Marines Needed A Plane Ride Home, Here's How Donald Trump Responded," Sean Hannity Show website, May 19, 2016
It seemed like such a sweet story - Donald Trump sending his personal plane down to Camp Lejeune, N.C., when 200 Marines were stranded after fighting in the 1991 Persian Gulf War. At least that is the story that Sean Hannity of Fox News has touted on his website for several months.

But a reader, Lazer Cohen of Brooklyn, was suspicious and asked The Fact Checker to check it out.

The Hannity story mostly relied on the recollections of Cpl. Ryan Stickney, who was a squad leader in a Marine Corps Reserve antitank (TOW) company that was called up for duty for the 1990-91 conflict that took place after Iraq invaded Kuwait. After five weeks of airstrikes, the United States and its allies ousted Iraqi forces in a 100-hour ground assault.

The command chronology shows that 209 officers and Marines of the TOW Company (part of the 8th Tank Battalion for Operation Desert Shield) were activated on Nov. 26, 1990. The company arrived in Saudi Arabia on Dec. 22 and served through the end of March, before returning to Camp Lejeune. Stickney is listed as receiving a certificate of commendation.

After a few weeks in Camp Lejeune, the part-time troops were scheduled to return to their base in Broward County. An article in the Sun-Sentinel newspaper on the April 22 homecoming reported that it had been "marred by flight delays," forcing well-wishers to wait for hours in the sun. The article said the Marines arrived on two flights, one at noon and one after 5 p.m.

"Stickney recalls being told that a mistake had been made within the logistics unit and that an aircraft wasn't available to take the Marines home on their scheduled departure date," Hannity.com reported. But then Trump supposedly came to the rescue: "The way the story was told to us was that Mr. Trump found out about it and sent the airline down to take care of us," Stickney said.

He even took a photo:

Our reader was suspicious because of the language "recalls being told." That sounds more like a rumor than any confirmation.

Moreover, take a close look at the photograph. That was not Trump's private plane at the time. That's a Boeing 727 jet that was part of a Trump Shuttle fleet - an airline that Trump briefly owned before it was essentially seized by the banks because he failed to make payments on his loans. It had a white fuselage.

Here's what Trump's private plane, with a dark fuselage, looked like in 1991:

Trump's private plane only had 24 seats, according to news reports; Trump Shuttle jets had at least 130 seats.

Trump had put the Trump Shuttle up for sale on April 27, 1990, but by September couldn't make loan payments and needed to cut a new deal with his bankers. By the time the TOW company went off to war, Trump had not paid interest on a $235 million Citibank loan for months.

When the warriors returned from Saudi Arabia, the banks had made it clear they would determine how and when the shuttle was sold. Trump was in such financial straits that he had even agreed to sell his personal jet for $6.5 million in a bid to raise cash.

So how did the Trump Shuttle end up helping the Marines at Camp Lejeune?

Well, it turns out when Trump bought the shuttle from Eastern Airlines, he made a bad deal, accepting an additional five planes instead of a lower purchase price because the market had turned south. As the Daily Beast noted, in an entertaining account of Trump's foray into the airline business, "the shuttle needed only 16 planes to operate a full hourly schedule at its three cities, with one or two jets as spares, and extra aircraft are anathema to an airline - they don't make money sitting on the ground."

So some of those extra planes were contracted out to the U.S. military to ferry personnel in the United States during Operations Desert Shield/Storm in 1990-1991. Lt. Gen. Vernon J. Kondra, now retired, was in charge of all military airlift operations. He said that relying on commercial carriers freed up the military cargo aircraft for equipment transport.

Kondra graciously checked his notes for The Fact Checker; the notes have been put into an oral history and declassified. There are several references to a 1990-91 contract for Trump Shuttle to carry personnel across the United States, between the East and West coasts, on a standard LaGuardia-Dover-Charleston-Travis-Chord-Kelly-Dover-LaGuardia run.

"It worked very well, and the crews loved it, and really thought that we'd done something special for them," Kondra recalled in the oral history. "It was a helluva lot better than using 141s [cargo craft], which we could use for something else."

But Kondra said the notion that Trump personally arranged to help the stranded soldiers made little sense. "I certainly was not aware of that. It does not sound reasonable that it would happen like that. It would not fit in with how we did business," he told The Fact Checker. "I don't even know of how he would have known there was a need."

Indeed, as we have noted, Trump at the time was in constant negotiations with his bankers, seeking to prevent financial ruin. Presumably he was rather busy.

More than likely, given the proximity of the Trump Shuttle to Camp Lejeune, a Trump Shuttle jet was dispatched from LaGuardia to pick up the troops and take them to Florida as part of the contract. The five-hour gap between arrivals in Broward County suggests that one plane was used to go back and forth between North Carolina and Florida.

We had a pleasant exchange of emails with Stickney, but he chose not to comment for the record after learning the results of our inquiry. (Stickney publicly told his story at a Trump rally in Houston in June.) Hannity and the Trump campaign did not respond to requests for comment.

The Pinocchio Test

Despite the rumors on base, it's clear that Trump had nothing to do with the dispatch of the jet to the troops stranded at Camp Lejeune. The aircraft that ferried the troops was part of the Trump Shuttle fleet, at a time when Trump barely had control over the airline and was frantically trying to negotiate deals with bankers to prevent the collapse of his business empire.

Trump Shuttle had a contract with the military, and this flight home was part of that contract. Simple as that.

Sean Hannity needs to prominently correct this article. The Trump campaign, meanwhile, earns Four Pinocchios for confirming a story that is easily debunked.

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'Ghost of Kyiv', a Ukrainian fight pilot known to have shot down nearly 40 Russian fighter jets has died in battle, as per a report in The Times of London. The Ukrainian pilot who gained fame for his bravery in the wake of Russian invasion of Ukraine which started on February 24 this year.

The identity of 'Ghost of Kyiv' has also been revealed in the report. The Times of London reported tha Major Stepan Tarabalka.

Media reports say that Major Tarabalka's fighter jet was shot down on March 13 when he was tackling overwhelming number of enemy forces. Major Tarabalka's goggles and helmet are now going to be auctioned.

"People call him the Ghost of Kyiv. And rightly so - this UAF ace dominates the skies over our capital and country, and has already become a nightmare for invading Russian aircrafts," tweeted official account of Ukraine government on February 22 this year, highlighting the bravery of Major Traabalka.

Major Tarabalka was declared to have shot down 6 Russian fighter jets on the first day of the war.

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The Times reported that Stepan Tarabalka was born in Korolivka, a small village in western Ukraine. He hailed froma working class family. It was his dream to become a fighter pilot since his childhood.
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On August 25, 1835, the first in a series of six articles announcing the supposed discovery of life on the moon appears in the New York Sun newspaper.

Known collectively as "The Great Moon Hoax," the articles were supposedly reprinted from the Edinburgh Journal of Science. The byline was Dr. Andrew Grant, described as a colleague of Sir John Herschel, a famous astronomer of the day. Herschel had in fact traveled to Capetown, South Africa, in January 1834 to set up an observatory with a powerful new telescope. As Grant described it, Herschel had found evidence of life forms on the moon, including such fantastic animals as unicorns, two-legged beavers and furry, winged humanoids resembling bats. The articles also offered vivid description of the moon's geography, complete with massive craters, enormous amethyst crystals, rushing rivers and lush vegetation.

The New York Sun, founded in 1833, was one of the new "penny press" papers that appealed to a wider audience with a cheaper price and a more narrative style of journalism. From the day the first moon hoax article was released, sales of the paper shot up considerably. It was exciting stuff, and readers lapped it up. The only problem was that none of it was true. The Edinburgh Journal of Science had stopped publication years earlier, and Grant was a fictional character. The articles were most likely written by Richard Adams Locke, a Sun reporter educated at Cambridge University. Intended as satire, they were designed to poke fun at earlier, serious speculations about extraterrestrial life, particularly those of Reverend Thomas Dick, a popular science writer who claimed in his bestselling books that the moon alone had 4.2 billion inhabitants.

Readers were completely taken in by the story, however, and failed to recognize it as satire. The craze over Herschel's supposed discoveries even fooled a committee of Yale University scientists, who traveled to New York in search of the Edinburgh Journal articles. After Sun employees sent them back and forth between the printing and editorial offices, hoping to discourage them, the scientists returned to New Haven without realizing they had been tricked.

On September 16, 1835, the Sun admitted the articles had been a hoax. People were generally amused by the whole thing, and sales of the paper didn't suffer. The Sun continued operation until 1950, when it merged with the New York World-Telegram. The merger folded in 1967. A new New York Sun newspaper was founded in 2002, but it had no relation to the original.

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Press Information Bureau (PIB) shared that the flagship Ganga Vilas Cruise, which was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi last week, did not get stuck on the third day of its 51-day journey in Bihar's Chhapra as claimed by news organisations.

As per the online reports, the cruise which was scheduled to dock at the shore for the tourists to visit Chirand, an archaeological site, got stuck because of water deficiency in the Ganges near the Doriganj area of the district. Chirand Saran, situated 11 km southeast of Chhapra near Doriganj Bazar, is the most important archaeological site in the district. Stupanuma fillings built on the banks of the Ghaghra river are seen to be associated with Hindu, Buddhist, and Muslim influences.

However, PIB has dismissed such reports and said that the claim which originated from a report by news agencies is false, and the cruise reached Patna as per schedule.

.@ANI has claimed that #GangaVilasCruise is stuck in Chhapra due to shallow water. #PIBFactCheck

▪️ This claim is #Fake.

▪️ The cruise is not stuck & has reached Patna as per schedule.

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Meanwhile, Raj Singh, Chairman of Exotic Heritage Group which is operating the Ganga Vilas cruise, also told NDTV that the cruise was never stuck. He explained that the main ship always remains in the main channel, normal for cruise ships, and the travelers take smaller boats to go and do sightseeing.

Ganga Vilas- The longest river cruise ship in the world

Ganga Vilas is the longest motor cruise ship in the world. It was flagged off on January 13, 2023, by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

It will cover a distance of a whopping 3200 km in 50 days. During the course of its journey, 'Ganga Vilas' will pass through 27 river systems in both India and Bangladesh, including the Ganga and the Brahmaputra. This longest voyage by a river ship will mark the entry of India and Bangladesh into the world's river cruise map.

Ganga Vilas Cruise also has special features. Its speed is up to 12 kilometres per hour upstream and 20 kilometres downstream. The cruise has an RO system for drinking water, along with a sewage treatment plant. The cruise has all the necessary facilities for the convenience of the people and their needs. Its fare in India is Rs 25,000 a day, while in Bangladesh the fare is Rs 50,000 a day.

The luxury triple-deck cruise will travel on the world's longest waterway from Varanasi to Dibrugarh in Assam. The cruise has a capacity of 80 passengers with 18 suits. This cruise will go on an adventurous journey for 51 days and pass through Bangladesh for 15 days. Following this, it will go to Dibrugarh through the Brahmaputra river in Assam.

This cruise will pass through a total of 27 river systems of UP, Bihar, West Bengal, Bangladesh, and Assam. The cruise will pass through three major rivers Ganga, Meghna, and Brahmaputra. The cruise will enter the Bhagirathi, Hooghly, Bidyavati, Malata, and Sundarbans river systems in Bengal.

In Bangladesh, it will pass through Meghna, Padma, and Jamuna in Bangladesh and then enter the Brahmaputra in Assam.

According to an official statement, the 51 days cruise is planned with visits to 50 tourist spots including World Heritage Sights, National Parks, river Ghats, and major cities like Patna in Bihar, Sahibganj in Jharkhand, Kolkata in West Bengal, Dhaka in Bangladesh and Guwahati in Assam.
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卡達世足賽決賽在19日完美落幕，足球巨星梅西（Lionel Messi）率阿根廷力挫衛冕軍法國，奪下朝思慕想的大力神盃，世足最後一舞完美謝幕，在全球颳起「梅西旋風」；不料卻有中國網友「狂蹭熱度」，在微博發文稱梅西是中國人，祖籍遍布大江南北，還幫他取了中文名字，假訊息在陸網瘋傳，令外界全看傻眼。不過，這樣的說法其實具「反諷」用意，是刻意揶揄中國國足的梗。

一名網友稱，「梅西原名梅建國，四川廣元人，自幼隨父母移居阿根廷，2022年12月18日，梅西登頂封神，祝賀梅西。」另一名稱「梅西原名梅建華，舉起大力神盃，是我們中國人的驕傲」；奇葩內容令外界看得直搖頭。

另外，梅西的決賽對手、奪下金靴獎的姆巴佩（Kylian Mbappe）也同樣遭殃，遭中網取名「姆志輝」，稱他年少時曾在縣醫院街邊踢球，之後才移民法國。

不過，網友看似荒誕的發文內容實則是在「反諷」中國國足毫無長進，也是安慰自己對足球的熱情，是「刻意揶揄」的梗，並非真的認為梅西是中國人。由於中國球迷相當支持足球國家隊，但球隊卻長期積弱不振，本屆也在外圍賽遭淘汰，未能取得世足賽門票，大陸網友失望之餘，藉為梅西歡呼嘲諷自己人。

此外，「建國」是一個中國的菜市場名，在1950至1960年代，中國有98萬人叫建國，這名字對年輕人而言充滿土味，因此拿國際巨星梅西的名字來開玩笑，藉此製造笑點與幽默。

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卡達世足賽決賽在19日完美落幕，足球巨星梅西（Lionel Messi）率阿根廷力挫衛冕軍法國，奪下朝思慕想的大力神盃，世足最後一舞完美謝幕，在全球颳起「梅西旋風」；不料卻有中國網友「狂蹭熱度」，在微博發文稱梅西是中國人，祖籍遍布大江南北，還幫他取了中文名字，假訊息在陸網瘋傳，令外界全看傻眼。不過，這樣的說法其實具「反諷」用意，是刻意揶揄中國國足的梗。 ...

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As the Japanese right wing political party began to rise in 1972, denials of the Nanking Massacre became more apparent. These denials can be divided into three types: distorted facts and rewriting history, disputes on how many people killed, or denying the massacre altogether (Zhang).

In 1982, the Japanese Ministry of Education headed the campaign to distort and rewrite the events of World War II in the history books. Certain words were replaced in text about Sino-Japanese wars; Japanese "aggression" in Nanking being by "advancing in and out." This was finally stopped because of the strong protest by the surrounding Asian countries and various Japanese educational groups, but the rewriting of the Nanking Massacre remained and repeated several times after. Moreover, the Ministry of Education has never admitted that the distortion of history is a mistake (www.cnd.org).

During the same period, some Japanese historians came to believe the numbers killed in massacre had been a great exaggeration. The book, Nanking Incident, by Hata Ikuhiko claims that there were only 38,000 to 42,000 victims (www. cnd.org).
Perhaps the most outrageous claim was of an absolute denial of the atrocity. The Journey to China sparked the publication of two articles, "Reply to Katsuichi Honda," and "The Phantom of the Nanking Massacre," both declaring that the massacre never happened. In addition, the book, "Fabrication of Nanking Massacre," by Massaki Tanaka, also denied the massacre and blamed the Chinese for the war (Zhang).
In 1990, Japanese government officials formally denied the Nanking Massacre by stating that it was a lie. On November 10, 1990, the deputy Japanese Consul in Houston told Americans that according to Japanese sources, the massacre never occurred. Shintaro Ishihara, a Japanese writer and politician, was quoted by Playboy, "People say that the Japanese made a holocaust there, but that is not true. It is a story made up by the Chinese." This treatment of the Massacre still continues today in the 21st century (Zhang).
References:
"Basic facts on the Nanjing Massacre and the Tokyo War Crimes Trial." Japanese Army's Atrocities. 1993.New Jersey Hong Kong Network. 10 Jul 2007 <http://www.cnd.org/njmassacre/nj.html>.

Zhang, "History." Nanking Massacre 1937. 2000. 17 Jul 2007
<http://prion.bchs.uh.edu/~zzhang/1/Nanking_Massacre/history.html>.

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BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese state media denied rumours on Thursday that former president Jiang Zemin had died after a Hong Kong television station said he had, sparking a wave of speculation about a leadership transition due next year.

"Recent reports of some overseas media organisations about Jiang Zemin's death from illness are pure rumour," the official Xinhua news agency quoted "authoritative sources" as saying.

Jiang, 84, is in poor health. Three sources with ties to China's leadership told Reuters that he is in intensive care in Beijing at the No. 301 military hospital after suffering a heart attack.

In the opaque world of Chinese politics, the health of a leader is fodder for rumours about how the balance of power is shifting at the highest levels of the government.

Current President Hu Jintao retires from office from late next year in a sweeping leadership overhaul, and the rumours about Jiang's health underscore the uncertainties around this.

Hong Kong's Asia Television interrupted its main newscast on Wednesday evening to announce solemnly that Jiang had died, and followed with a brief profile. It kept up the news for several hours on a ticker and then said it would air a special report on Jiang's life late in the evening.

It later cancelled the report, and withdrew the ticker after failing to get official confirmation.

On Thursday afternoon, the television station issued a statement to apologise to its audience and Jiang's family.

"Asia Television has taken note of this afternoon's report from Xinhua and has withdrawn last night's report about Mr. Jiang Zemin's death and would like to apologise to our audience and Mr. Jiang Zemin's family," the statement said.

Meanwhile, the Shandong News website (www.sdnews.com.cn) in northeast China posted a black banner with white characters, saying "Our Respectable Comrade Jiang Zemin Is Immortal". The site was no longer accessible on Thursday.

China's foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei deflected numerous questions about Jiang at a regular news briefing, saying Xinhua had already made a full explanation and that he had nothing further to add.

Searches on a popular Chinese micro-blogging site with terms ranging from "Jiang Zemin" to the Yangtze River (Jiang's surname means "river"), are blocked, a sign that China's censors are concerned about public debate about his health.

Premature reports about the demise of Chinese leaders are hardly new. In the 1990s, Hong Kong and Japanese media reported several times that paramount leader Deng Xiaoping had died.

UNCERTAINTY FOR JIANG ALLIES

Jiang Zemin's passing -- on the surface at least -- would likely have limited impact on the direction of China's politics and economic development.

He retired long ago, handing over the Communist Party's top job to Hu in 2002 and his other posts over the next two years. Hu and Premier Wen Jiabao have since led the country on a decade-long charge that saw it grow from an economy the size of Britain to one that has surpassed Japan.

But the prospect of Jiang's passing would add a breeze of uncertainty to a transition that is widely thought to hand power from Hu to a new generation led by Xi Jinping, currently vice president. That would take place at the 18th Communist Party Congress expected sometime in the autumn of 2012.

Xi, anointed as Hu's heir apparent at the congress in 2007, was considered acceptable to both the Hu and Jiang camps.

But in China, the death of a senior leader can be cause for worry, and even spell disaster, for proteges and allies who are no longer protected.

Hu would no longer have Jiang acting as a counterweight to his influence over the future make up of the next leadership.

"New leaders are selected by old leaders," Zheng Yongnian, professor of Chinese politics at the National University of Singapore. "He's one of the important selectorate. After he passes away, other current leaders will become more influential."

He could also settle scores or take down other rivals with links to Jiang, if necessary.

Past leaders can have considerable clout in China. Deng wielded power as paramount leader despite having given up all his posts except the honorary chairman of the Chinese bridge association.

Jiang consolidated his own grip on power after Deng died in 1997. By the time Jiang retired his last post -- as head of the military commission -- in 2004, he had already stacked the Politburo with his people.

"Front and back, left and right, up and down. No matter where Hu looks, there is a Jiang man," said one source at the time the leadership line-up was announced back in 2002.

In Jiang's case, there are quite a few allies still in place in the leadership who might now have cause for concern, should Hu assert himself.

"If he dies, the situation becomes very delicate," said one source with ties to leadership circles who requested anonymity given the sensitivity of the subject.

Among the Jiang allies still in senior posts are: Wu Bangguo, parliament chief and the second ranking person in the nine-member Politburo Standing Committee; Jia Qinglin, who heads a parliamentary advisory body and is ranked fourth; and Li Changchun, who oversees propaganda and ideology and is ranked fifth.

How exactly it will play it out, is unclear. With the Party Congress only about 15 months away, Hu's window to further consolidate his grip on power is considerably shorter than Jiang had as he prepared to step down.

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This piece was originally published on PolitiFact.com on June 11, 2020
Joe Biden: On COVID-19, Donald Trump said that "maybe if you drank bleach you may be okay."

PolitiFact's ruling: Mostly False.

Here's why: Joe Biden criticized President Donald Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic, saying during a speech on the economy that Trump had given up trying to manage a crisis he's ill equipped to solve.

"And when it comes to COVID-19, after months of doing nothing, other than predicting the virus would disappear, or maybe if you drank bleach you may be okay, Trump has simply given up," said Biden, who delivered his remarks at a metalworks factory near his hometown of Scranton on Thursday.

Trump spoke about the role he thought disinfectants could play in tackling an infection caused by the virus during a now infamous April 23 briefing. But he didn't say people should drink bleach.

His comments came after William Bryan, the undersecretary for science and technology at the Department of Homeland Security, presented a study that found sun exposure and cleaning agents like bleach can kill the virus when it lingers on surfaces.

Trump remarked on the effectiveness of those methods and wondered if they could help address infections in the human body.

Here are his full comments:

"A question that probably some of you are thinking of if you're totally into that world, which I find to be very interesting. So, supposedly we hit the body with a tremendous, whether it's ultraviolet or just very powerful light, and I think you said that hasn't been checked, but you're going to test it. And then I said supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way. (To Bryan) And I think you said you're going to test that, too. Sounds interesting, right?"

He continued.

"And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning, because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it'd be interesting to check that, so that you're going to have to use medical doctors with, but it sounds interesting to me. So, we'll see, but the whole concept of the light, the way it kills it in one minute. That's pretty powerful."

Later, Trump clarified his comments after a reporter asked Bryan whether disinfectants could actually be injected into COVID-19 patients.

"It wouldn't be through injections, almost a cleaning and sterilization of an area. Maybe it works, maybe it doesn't work, but it certainly has a big effect if it's on a stationary object."
Our ruling
Trump did not explicitly recommend ingesting a disinfectant like bleach. Nevertheless, his remarks led some companies and state agencies to issue warnings about ingesting disinfectants. The maker of Lysol said in a statement that "under no circumstance" should its products be used in the human body.
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The Biden campaign did not respond to a request for comment about what evidence the former vice president relied on when he claimed the president suggested Americans drink bleach to combat the virus.

Biden said Trump said drinking bleach could help fight the coronavirus. Trump did not specifically recommend ingesting disinfectants, but he did express interest in exploring whether disinfectants could be applied to the site of a coronavirus infection inside the body, such as the lungs. We rate Biden's claim Mostly False.

Sources

C-SPAN, "President Trump with Coronavirus Task Force Briefing," April 23, 2020

PolitiFact, "In Context: What Donald Trump said about disinfectant, sun and coronavirus," April 24, 2020

RB, "Improper use of Disinfectants," April 2020

Rev, "Donald Trump Coronavirus Press Conference Transcript April 23," April 23, 2020

TV Eyes, accessed April 24, 2020

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On December 28, 2015, the South Korean and Japanese governments announced an Agreement on Comfort Women, without showing the text of a formal agreement. Foreign ministers of the two countries read a statement, not the agreement, in front of a TV camera together.

At the time, Kishida Fumio, who was then foreign minister of Japan and is now the prime minister, said on behalf of Prime Minister Abe Shinzo:

The issue of comfort women, with an involvement of the Japanese military authorities at that time, was a grave affront to the honor and dignity of large numbers of women, and the Government of Japan is painfully aware of responsibilities from this perspective. As Prime Minister of Japan, Prime Minister Abe expresses anew his most sincere apologies and remorse to all the women who underwent immeasurable and painful experiences and suffered incurable physical and psychological wounds as comfort women.

In addition, the Japanese government decided to offer 1 billion yen as an apology. The South Korean and Japanese governments confirmed that the comfort women issue will be resolved "finally and irreversibly" on the premise that these measures will be implemented steadily.

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Therefore, the issue of "comfort women" in the Japanese military cannot be said to have been resolved unless "projects for recovering the honor and dignity and healing the psychological wounds of all former comfort women" - as expressed in the joint statement on the comfort women agreement - were implemented, as both ministers said at the press conference.

However, just three weeks after the agreement, Abe told the Japanese National Assembly, "There was no document found that the comfort women were forcibly taken away." This statement directly challenged the goals in the Japan-South Korea agreement on "recovering the honor and dignity and healing the psychological wounds" of the victims. About nine months after the agreement, the South Korean side asked Abe to "send a letter of apology directly to the former comfort women." Abe's reply was dismissive, saying, "I have no intention of apologizing again."

Three days after the statement was announced, Sankei Shimbun, a Japanese newspaper that has right-wing tendencies, cited people close to the prime minister in reporting that "the comfort women agreement was a gamble that Prime Minister Abe makes to keep South Korea silent." In other words, the Japanese government at the time viewed the agreement as more of a political strategy than a sincere apology to the comfort women victims.

When the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women deliberated on Japan in February 2016, the committee strongly criticized the Japanese government's response to the issue of "comfort women" in the Japanese military.
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At this committee meeting, which was held about two months after the agreement, the Japanese government's foreign affairs deliberation officer said, that "'forceful taking away' of comfort women by the military and government authorities could not be confirmed in any of the documents that the Government of Japan was able to identify" in its own research. He also added that "the expression 'sex-slaves' contradicted the facts."

In response, one of the U.N. Committee members said that "the answer of the delegation on the issue of comfort women was unacceptable and contradictory. On the one hand, the Government of Japan denied the existence of comfort women, while on another hand, the Government reached an agreement on that same issue."

Through the government's consistent denials after the joint statement, it was Japan who broke the spirit and promise of the comfort women agreement in the first place.

Another problem is that the deal targets "all former comfort women." However, there are comfort women victims who did not accept the 2015 agreement. They filed a lawsuit against the Japanese government. This means that the premise of the Japan-South Korea agreement on "all former comfort women" was broken from the very beginning.

The results of the lawsuit came out in January and April 2021. In the January trial, the comfort women victims won the case, and the Japanese government ignored the ruling, so the comfort women's victory was confirmed. In the verdict in April, the court granted Japan sovereign immunity, and the comfort women victim's lawsuit was defeated. However, both trials acknowledged the victims' claims that the Japanese forcibly took the comfort women and that the comfort women were actually sex slaves. The invocation of sovereign immunity does not mean that Japan has no responsibility in the issue of comfort women, but merely states the principle that a sovereign state (South Korea, in this case) cannot judge other sovereign states. Paradoxically, however, the April ruling made it clear that Japan's sovereignty took the lead in the comfort women issue.

What emerged from this unfavorable situation in Japan was renewed claims, including by some Koreans, that comfort women were not sex slaves, but only sex workers - that is, prostitutes. These claims are not a new argument, but assertions that emerged from the Japanese right-wing, which opposes the Japanese government's recognition of the forced deportation of comfort women by the Japanese military through the Kono Statement in 1993.

The Japanese right-wing argues that the comfort women were equivalent to the state-recognized licensed prostitutes under Japan's licensed prostitution system. A licensed prostitute refers to a prostitute who signs a contract with a brothel owner and operates publicly. Such assertions - most famously made by Harvard Professor J. Mark Ramseyer in an article published earlier this year, which sparked a huge backlash - had appeared in Japan after 1993 and began to spread in earnest through a book called "Anti-Japanese Tribalism," published in 2019 in South Korea.

But these claims are false. Under the system of licensed prostitution, it was essential for pimps and women to exchange contracts to protect the minimum rights of women. However, in the case of South Korean comfort women, there is no evidence of such contracts. Even Ramseyer admitted that "I haven't been able to find it." Other evidence, however, directly refutes the idea that the comfort women operated in the same way as Japan's licensed prostitutes. "Without any documents, they buy the daughters of poor peasants like human trafficking, make them work, and throw them away like slaves. In this way, there was no hope of gaining freedom until death," a Japanese military surgeon wrote in his war diary (published in 1983). The testimony from this Japanese military doctor strongly supports the assertion that the comfort women were sex slaves. The same surgeon also describes a scene where a deceived woman was forcibly turned into a comfort woman.

I have compiled and published the tragic testimonies of these Korean comfort women, recounted by former Japanese soldiers, with translations in both Korean and Japanese. Based on these accounts, most comfort women were taken to the battlefield after being deceived into thinking they would be earning salaries working in restaurants for the military or assisting nurses at military hospitals. Japanese soldiers also recorded the testimonies of women who escaped and were killed.

In early 1938, the Japanese government's Ministry of Home Affairs selected recruiters secretly and issued an official document instructing them to recruit women and move women to the brothels abroad. The recruiters ran these brothels, which were euphemistically named "comfort centers." This is clear evidence that the Japanese government and the Japanese military managed the military brothels as well as the brothel recruiters. A number of other official documents have been found indicating that the Japanese government and the Japanese military decided to set up the military brothels and operate them together.
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The Japanese were harsher on women in the occupied territories. After expelling the Dutch army and occupying Indonesia, Japanese forces took more than 60 Dutch women who had been captured and turned them into sex slaves. The mastermind was sentenced to death by a local military tribunal after the war. Many of these official records remain.

In China and the Philippines, as well, women were forced into sexual servitude. A Japanese military doctor reported that the Japanese military, which had occupied a village in China, ordered the village chief to take women and make them sex slaves. The comfort women regulation of one Japanese military unit (issued in 1940) says that one comfort woman was assigned for every 100 soldiers. One comfort woman would sexually service 70-80 soldiers on holidays or the day before a planned battle. Women were not given the right to refuse. This regulation also stipulated that the comfort women were not allowed to travel farther than 200 meters in all directions. These official documents clearly show that the "comfort women" of the Japanese military were, in fact, not free to either leave or refuse sex work. They were sexual slaves.

Under the 2015 comfort women agreement, Japan paid 1 billion yen to the comfort women victims. But it ignored more important responsibilities, such as educating young people or taking measures to prevent secondary harm to victims. On the contrary, the Japanese government has taken the lead in the secondary persecution of the victims. Although Japan is a developed country, it does not have a National Human Rights Commission, much less a system in place to listen to the voices of the victims of Japanese imperialism and provide redress.

Even if there is a state-to-state agreement in place, the individual right to claim restitution cannot be extinguished. Claims of Japanese privilege simply seek to avoid fundamental responsibility for human rights issues established by historical facts.

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Asia Television Limited has been fined $300,000 for misreporting news of the death of former national leader Jiang Zemin, the Broadcasting Authority announced today.

The authority said complaints were received against the misreporting of news of Mr Ziang's death broadcast on the Home and World Channels of ATV on July 6 and 7.

The authority found the complaints about inaccurate news reporting and the late correction of factual errors substantiated.

It regrets ATV's adoption of an irresponsible approach in its response to the authority's inquiry, and fined ATV $300,000.

Regarding complaints against the television programme Wealth Blog broadcast on ATV's Home Channel on July 19 and 21, the authority seriously warned the broadcaster to observe more closely the relevant provisions in the TV Programme Code.

As for complaints against the advertising magazine Corporate Excellence broadcast on ATV's Home Channel on May 29 and August 21, the authority warned ATV to observe more closely the relevant provisions in the TV Advertising Code.

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Asia Television Limited has been fined $300,000 for misreporting news of the death of former national leader Jiang Zemin, the Broadcasting Authority announced today. The authority said complaints were received against the misreporting of news of Mr Ziang's death broadcast on the Home and World Channels of ATV on July 6 and 7.

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Kim Jong Un may be dead, according to a Hong Kong broadcast network, while a Japanese magazine is reporting that the North Korean dictator is in a "vegetative state" after he underwent heart surgery earlier this month.

A vice director of HKSTV Hong Kong Satellite Television, a Beijing-backed broadcast network in Hong Kong, claimed that Kim was dead, citing a "very solid source." Her post on the Chinese messaging app Weibo has been shared widely on social media, according to a report in the International Business Times.

Other unconfirmed reports, attributed to senior party sources in Beijing, said an operation to insert a stent went wrong because the surgeon's hands were shaking so badly.

The North Korean dictator is in a "vegetative state" after he underwent heart surgery earlier this month, a Japanese magazine says.

The weekly Shukan Gendai reported Friday that a Chinese medic sent to North Korea as part of a team to treat Kim believed a delay in a simple procedure left the leader severely ill, Reuters reported.

North Korean media hasn't mentioned Kim's health or whereabouts, even though reports by other media have sparked international speculation about his well-being.

The Chinese expert told the magazine that Kim clutched his chest and fell to the ground on a visit to the countryside earlier this month. A doctor accompanying Kim performed CPR and took him to a nearby hospital.

Kim, believed to be 36, needed a stent procedure, which calls for placing a tube into a congested blood vessel to allow blood to keep flowing to the heart, according to Shukan Gendai.

The hashtag #KimJongUndead was trending on Twitter but without any proof of the leader's death.

Earlier this week, Seoul-based website Daily NK reported that Kim was recovering after undergoing a cardiovascular procedure on April 12. The outlet cited one unnamed source in North Korea.

South Korean government officials and a Chinese official with the Liaison Department challenged subsequent reports suggesting that Kim was in grave danger after surgery, Reuters said. South Korean officials said they had detected no signs of unusual activity in North Korea.

President Donald Trump has downplayed reports that Kim is ill, and an official familiar with U.S. intelligence said the government had no reason to conclude he was seriously ill or unable eventually to reappear in public, Huffington Post reported.
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年屆35歲的美斯成功帶領阿根廷，相隔36年後再次奪世界盃冠軍，經過多年的堅持後終於完夢，更加冕成無可爭議的第三代球王，令全球球迷都為之感動和歡呼。但美斯的身世卻成為了熱話，眾所周知美斯在阿根廷出生及成長，但有中國網民竟然稱美斯是「中國人」，原名為「梅建國」，祖籍更眾說紛紜，山西、山東和廣東都有人提及。而在印度，有國會議員更語出驚人，直指美斯是在印度出生的。

內地網民：真名叫「梅建國」

美斯世界盃「最後一舞」成功帶領阿根廷登頂，無數球迷也為他完夢的非常感動，更令全球掀起了一片「美斯熱」。在內地，竟然有網民趁機沾光，指名字被內地譯為「梅西」的美斯，真名是「梅建國」，並稱美斯「其實是中國人」，自幼隨父移居阿根廷。

雖然這明顯是內地網民的「惡搞」帖文，但卻迅速在內抖音、小紅書等各大社群平台流傳開來，更對美斯的身世有多種說法，他的「祖籍」遍布中國大江南北，四川、山西、山東和廣東都有人提及。內地網民更「玩膠」無極限，竟然笑稱「祖國為你感到驕傲」、「中國之光」等，令不少內網友也看不下去。

印度議員「吹大咗」立刻刪除貼文

除了內地網民「派膠」外，想不到印度有一名國會議員也加入戰團，指將美斯的身世與印度拉上關係。印度在野黨國大黨（Congress Party）國會議員卡勒克（Abdul Khaleque），在Twitter上發文稱美斯其實是在印度阿薩姆省（Assam）出生，隨即引來網民洗版式狠批，他意識到自己「玩大咗」，於是立刻刪除貼文。對於自己的身世竟然有如此多個版本，可能美斯知道後，都會立即「黑人問號」。

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肺炎疫情觸發香港出現「集體歇斯底里」搶購潮

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新型冠狀病毒肆虐之際，香港近日出現糧食搶購潮，有超級市場食品貨架被清空，日常用品例如廁紙、衛生棉等也是被搶購的對象。

周三，一些通訊群組及網上平台流傳消息，稱一些中國廠房可能因疫情而無法開工，影響物資供應，並導致一些超級市場缺貨。超級市場惠康回應香港媒體查詢時澄清只屬流言，由於部分產品需求急升，正與供應商保持聯繫，確保貨源。

香港政府發言人發表聲明，譴責「居心叵測的造遙者」，對有人在抗疫期間惡意散播謠言感到遺憾。特首林鄭月娥強調，目前香港食物、必需品等供應無短缺，但如果完全切斷大陸和香港之間的人流，就可能影響食品及日用品供應。

香港學者鍾劍華認為，香港市民對政府信任度低迷，觸發「集體歇斯底里」，加上此前林鄭月娥政府為了反對「封關」不斷講「全面封關」會令香港物資短缺，所以當政府宣佈對曾往中國大陸的人實施強制檢疫措施時，進一步觸發群眾恐慌。

許多中國網民在社交媒體取笑香港人的行徑，認為香港無法不依靠中國。

「這是天災，也是人禍」

自農曆新年前後疫情逐漸擴大之時，香港市面陷入口罩荒，市民四處張羅口罩和消毒用品，結果四處均缺貨，又或是遭店鋪「坐地起價」，把一盒50盒口罩定價一千多港元。

每逢商店公布有口罩出售，便會吸引大批市民從凌晨時份開始排隊，排隊的人有時甚至包括一些行動不便的長者，當地電視台街頭採訪一些長者時，有長者哭起來。

這個口罩荒逐步蔓延至其他日用品及糧食，過去一周，香港社交媒體都流傳著貨架被清空的圖片和視頻。記者走訪元朗區的超市，也不容易找到大米。

70多歲的陳婆婆周四早上亦在元朗區一間超級市場亦買了四包大米和三排廁紙。

她對記者說，如果口罩和消毒用品都買不到的時候，難保其他東西也買不到，所以先存起來，以備不時之需，如果物資過多，會轉贈給鄰居和其他親戚朋友。

她批評香港政府防疫措施做得太遲，「你應該一早就封關，隔離從大陸來的人，你現在才說強制隔離他們，病毒都來了，現在都有些人是沒有上過大陸就染病了，如果他們出事，林鄭要負全責的。」

35歲的王先生則在超級市場買了多箱食品罐頭、幾包大米和食水。他和太太的公司，都因為疫情，而被要求在家工作，6歲的兒子也因為停課，一家三口一日三餐也要在家中解決，所以比平時買多了很多食物。

「到餐廳吃飯也變得不安全，可能會感染病毒的，加上我家口罩只剩下一盒成人口罩和十來個兒童口罩，一家人出街都要計算好會否浪費了口罩。」

他估計如果疫情嚴重，可能要「挨兩個月」，在採訪期間，他多次問記者哪兒有口罩賣，「我不想通宵排隊，排隊人多，同樣很危險，但如果你不去排，又確實買不到，網上原本訂的口罩，全部都被取消訂單。」

記者問他是否過份焦慮和擔心，他說，因為政府的不作為，讓市民感到很無助，加上香港已經出現39歲的死亡個案，顯示這個目前沒有根治方法的疾病「可以很嚴重」，也不單是影響老人家。

「疫症來了也是沒辦法，但大家都知道，這不單是天災，也是有人禍的部分，政府本來可以在防疫上做得更好，但就是因為她（林鄭）擔心封關影響中國人民感情，就不願意做，我們香港人什麼時候淪落至此？」

香港目前已經關閉了多個連接中港兩地的關口，但估計每天仍然約2至3萬人，每天從大陸前往香港，當中大部分是香港居民。

港府將在周六（8日）開始，要求曾經前往大陸的人，實施強制檢疫14日，期間不得離港，不過香港行政會議成員林正財表示，香港欠缺隔離措施，實際操作有困難，可能會使用酒店隔離，並相信政府亦會考慮民間提出的地方，包括解放軍軍營。

港府稱關閉口岸的措施不影響貨運，而強制檢疫措施生效後，一些從事兩地貨運的人可能可以獲得豁免。

香港特首林鄭月娥強調，目前香港食物、必需品等供應無短缺，但如果完全切斷大陸和香港之間的人流，就可能影響食品及日用品供應。但她承認，口罩方面存在短缺，並稱政府採購不成功，為了預留給醫護人員使用，無法把口罩派發市民。

事實上，香港並非首次出現搶購潮，2003年非典，同樣有排隊買口罩和爭相買食物的畫面；2011年日本福島核事故，傳出輻射污染海水食鹽不安全，觸發中港澳台地區，均有「搶鹽」的事件。

香港理工大學政策研究中心主任鍾劍華對BBC中文表示，香港人口密集，這些消息傳出後，一旦有搶購行為出現，就會有傳播的效果。

「一些消息傳出來後，很多人都未知真假，但擔心一旦流言成真，就會買不到，所以都會先買，香港地小人多，這種行為很容易有傳播的效果，因為你會見到人搶貨，或是多間店的貨架被清空，你就會心慌，然後加入搶購。」

這次疫情中，口罩和消毒物品也在市面上嚴重短缺，政府也未能保證供應，令一些市民擔心，其他貨品也會如防疫用品一樣。

香港醫護界發起罷工要求「封關」，他們口中的「封關」是禁止曾往大陸的非香港籍人士進入香港，並不包括香港人和物資。但林鄭月娥在回應「封關」問題上，多次表明「全面封關」會影響「物資供應」。

鍾劍華認為，林鄭月娥拒絶的「封關」，是暫停所有人流貨運，與民間訴求並不一樣，她的說法是為了解釋自己為何「不封關」，直至5日，特首林鄭月娥在記者會上公布對大陸來港人士實施強制檢疫14天時，再度表示如果完全切斷大陸和香港之間的人流，就可能影響食品及日用品供應。

鍾劍華說，這種把「封關」與「物資供應」掛勾的說法，客觀效果就是加劇了物資短缺的流言。

他認為，香港政府失去市民信任，令市民不相信政府的保證和官方消息，更容易相信假消息。

「如何建立市民的信任，是需要政府開誠佈公，講真實的說話，但如果政府經常前言不對後語，今天說完之後，明天又變，這會造成反效果，令政府所作的任何呼籲都變得不可信。」

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In reality, it was not the US government that created the virus. And it wasn't the Chinese government either. And no, 5G has nothing to do with it whatsoever.

If you look for quick remedies, don't get your hopes up. It turns out sipping water every 15 minutes does not help. Nor does receiving blessings through the TV screen. And to cocaine, just say no.

Misinformation is something that we might expect for any major event that captures people's imagination, but in the case of COVID-19, the spread of fake news offers unique challenges and dangers to the public.

My research focuses on how innovation and new technologies (like social media, artificial intelligence, virtual reality) interact with consumer behaviour.

Unfortunately, these otherwise useful technologies can end up being abused. This is clearly the case with COVID-19 fake news on social media.
GOOD AND BAD INTENTIONS
There are two major types of false information.

The first is disinformation, which is spread intentionally by people in bad faith. In the case of COVID-19, there has been disinformation blaming racial groups, illegal immigrants and even governments for the spread of the virus.

It appears certain political groups and state agents may wish to propagate chaos for the sake of political gains.

The other kind of fake news is misinformation, which is spread innocently despite being incorrect.

Examples of COVID-19 misinformation include misconstrued understandings of the disease, wishful thinking about false remedies and fanciful implications drawn on how the spread of the virus will play out.

Some of it has been mere speculation among otherwise well-meaning people who then spread their opinion as fact.
WHY ARE WE SO SUSCEPTIBLE TO FAKE NEWS?
Humans are generally very bad at detecting fake information. This is because fake news often looks like real news - and we think we recognise a pattern.

Fake news also has an advantage when it comes to sharing information. When sharing information online, we give things very little scrutiny. We are also more inclined to share bad news, and a lot of the news related to COVID-19 is bad.

One of the things we know from classic anthropological work is that misinformation thrives where people have little control over environmental threats - like volcanic eruptions, unpredictable weather patterns or disease.

Modern psychological research concurs: under uncertainty, people seek safety, security and order - to compensate for lack of control.

In the past, this kind of compensation might have been magical beliefs. But today, it is more likely to be fake news.

COVID-19 is unknown, uncertain and uncontrolled. There's a clear threat to basic needs such as food, shelter, safety - and most importantly, staying alive.

As a result, information that is false, but seems to restore these basic needs, tends to spread quickly. Examples are quack remedies or rumours that the vaccine is just around the corner.

We also have a tendency to downplay factual information that is threatening.

This is something we've seen before with other health campaigns, such as on the dangers of cigarettes and alcohol consumption. Some people block out the real threat of COVID-19 by downplaying the risk, paying attention only to favourable pieces of information, for example, "I'm young, so this virus can't hurt me" or "It's no worse than the flu".

Another threat COVID-19 poses is to our basic need for social affiliation. Thoughts of contagion trigger suspicion and fear of others, especially people that are different from us.

One example is rumours that the viciousness of the Italian outbreak is driven by throngs of illegal immigrants from the Middle East.

Our sense of isolation as a result of quarantining and social distancing measures also makes us more likely to accept information from friends and family without scrutiny.

All of these factors are exacerbated by the sometimes unclear messages from officials and leaders.

For instance, official health advice on symptoms and prevention, though definitely useful, has been rather vague; we often hear terms like 'flu-like symptoms' and 'keep a social distance'. But if you've never had the flu or the exact measurements of social distancing keeps changing, it can get confusing.

The broadness of these messages may be due in part to the fact that scientific answers are not (yet) available for the many practical questions people have; What are the chances of contracting the virus while grocery shopping? Do I need to disinfect vegetables, product packages or banknotes? Should I wash my clothes after using public transport?

A complicating factor is that the official advice we're getting is constantly changing as we find out more about COVID-19.

A recent example is the debate over whether we should or shouldn't we wear face masks?

The Centre for Disease Control in the US has now revised its former recommendation against wearing masks in public. At the same time, Australia's deputy chief medical officer Paul Kelly has told Australians that they shouldn't wear face masks.

Although this advice seems to be motivated by concerns over the short supply of medical face masks for the Australian health care system, he went onto say "using a mask incorrectly can actually make it more dangerous."

This, in a narrow sense, is true: using anything incorrectly can be dangerous. The broader implication, however, that wearing masks is somehow "dangerous" flies in the face of new evidence complied by Yale researchers showing that wearing face masks reduces the spread of COVID-19 and saves lives.

Australian health officials need to revise their recommendations to align these messages with emerging scientific evidence. All the more so because when the official messages are confusing, people turn elsewhere. Like social and fringe media.

Fake news loves information voids like this - and fills them with balderdash.
WHERE DO WE TURN?
We're at a time when knowing the facts could literally save your life. But, unfortunately, once misinformation gets a foothold it is very difficult to correct.

In fact, attempts to correct fake news often strengthen it. If we want to address COVID-19-related fake news there are really three things we need to do.

The first is to cut the supply of false information. Governments play a key role here, in providing detailed, clear, and transparent official information that crowds out fake news.

Governments often avoid communicating like this, to save face or avoid panic, but the reality is that accessible, reliable and plentiful official information is critical to curtailing the fake kind.

The second strategy is to block people's access to view fake news where they could appear by working with social media platforms. Facebook has an ongoing program that aims to address this, whether that's successful or not remains to be seen.

Finally, and perhaps most importantly, we as consumers of information need to practice vigilance. Ideally, this would mean fact-checking everything that hits our screen, using reputable fact-checking websites such as AFP, Snopes and others.

If this is too difficult, we can still do two simple 'information hygiene exercises' - think of them like the mental equivalent of hand washing and distancing.

When encountering new information, take a momentary pause and ask yourself:

1. Am I just mindlessly accepting incoming content without adequate scrutiny of source, facts and format?

2. Am I believing this because cold facts warrant it or because it feels good to believe it?

We will need all of these strategies if we want COVID-19 misinformation to stop spreading.

In the meantime, stay safe, be careful and think about what you're sharing online.
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原標題：10月21日 1879年--美國科學家愛迪生發明了電燈

1879年10月21日，美國科學家愛迪生發明了電燈，即白熾燈，是一種透過通電，利用電阻把幼細絲線加熱至白熾，用來發光的燈。愛迪生是世界上第一個發明家利用大量生產原則和其工業研究實驗室來生產發明物的人。愛迪生名下擁有專利數累計超過1500項。1892年創立通用電氣公司。

電燈泡或稱電球，其准確技術名稱為白熾燈，是一種透過通電，利用電阻把幼細絲線(現代通常為鎢絲)加熱至白熾，用來發光的燈。電燈泡外圍由玻璃制造，把燈絲保持在真空，或低壓的惰性氣體之下，作用是防止燈絲在高溫之下氧化。

一般認為電燈是由美國人托馬斯·愛迪生所發明。但倘若認真的考據，另一美國人亨利·戈培爾(Heinrich G?bel)比愛迪生早數十年已發明了相同原理和物料，而且可靠的電燈泡，而在愛迪生之前很多其他人亦對電燈的發明作出了不少貢獻。1801年，英國化學家戴維將鉑絲通電發光。他亦在1810年發明了電燭，利用兩根碳棒之間的電弧照明。1854年亨利·戈培爾使用一根炭化的竹絲，放在真空的玻璃瓶下通電發光。他的發明今天看來是首個有實際效用的白熾燈。他當時試驗的燈泡已可維持400小時，但是並沒有即時申請設計專利。

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Apple crypto scam was on YouTube during the iPhone 14 launch event. This is what happened.

Apple launched new iPhones, Apple Watch, and AirPods, but online scammers tried to make a profit via Apple Crypto scam. (Apple)

When the world was busy watching the livestream of the iPhone 14 launch, online scammers were using the opportunity to con a number of people in a scam. A livestream of an old interview with Apple CEO Tim Cook masquerading as an official company cryptocurrency event got uploaded onto the YouTube page to lure tens of thousands of viewers.

However, this is not the first time that a cryptocurrency scam made its way to YouTube.

During the time of the launch of the latest iPhones, AirPods, and Apple Watches, a fake stream got a lot of attention from viewers, whose description was filled with the Apple keywords in the title as well as the description. But when people started visiting the website, it was actually a fake crypto website. When people turned to search for Apple-related videos on YouTube during the Apple Far Out Event, the bad actors edited an old interview of Tim Cook to promote a fraudulent crypto website.

The Verge reported that the video had a number of hints that the video was fake, including its title which reads, "Apple Event Live. CEO of Apple Tim Cook: Apple & Metaverse in 2022." The fraudsters had also added the logo of Bitcoin and Ethereum and covered the CNN Money logo with the text "Apple Crypto Event 2022 along with a bold text of "URGENT NEWS" at the bottom, The Verge report mentioned.

When viewers tapped on the livestream video, it was used to redirect viewers to a suspicious URL unrelated to Apple. The video stream had more than 10,000 viewers. However, the video was removed by YouTube after a while for violating its terms and conditions.

YouTube viewers should know that these types of crypto scams are common these days. Scammers try to take advantage of the famous brand or person to trick victims in order to send cryptocurrency to their wallets while promising some unrealistic and beneficial deals.

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During iPhone 14 launch, FAKE YouTube livestream fooled a whopping 10000 viewers

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抖音瘋傳「經血面膜」護膚 專家：小心發炎爛臉

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近期短片影音平台TikTok上掀起一股詭異的「經血面膜」（Menstrual masking）風潮，眾多女網民在自己的臉上塗抹經血，並宣稱新鮮的經血富含幹細胞，有護膚功效，可令皮膚更加光滑。「#periofacemask」、「#menstrual mask」、「#period blood ...