So, within a few hours, the people in Taiwan FactCheck Center at the time, discovered that this particular photo—there was a photo—was from Reuters, it was a real photo. There were young people in the Hong Kong protests, but the caption of that Reuters report was, “There are young people, teenagers, in the protest.” So it’s very neutral, it didn’t talk about murdering police or buying iPhones, right? So where did the new caption come from? Well, the Taiwan FactCheck Center traced it to the Chang’an Jian (长安剑) which is the Weibo account, the social media account of the Central Political and Law Unit of the Chinese Communist Party.

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