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Fact Focus
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RTHK’s new podcast focusing on dispelling misinformation, disinformation and fake news. Don't take for granted unverified claims and believe everything you see. Each episode, we'll focus on a couple of viral posts that are making false claims and set the record straight.
Presenter:
Vanessa Cheng and Tony Sabine2024-11-21
False claims over Covid jabs fuel vaccine hesitancy
Even though experts around the world have stressed time and again that Covid-19 vaccines are generally safe and effective, false claims continued to spread, alleging that the jabs are extremely harmful to human health.
In this edition of Fact Focus, we look at false assertions linking a rise in cancer diagnoses to Covid jabs.
We also investigate online claims that dunking a leaking gas cylinder in water can stop the leakage and minimise the chance of an explosion.
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