🇨🇳 Posts wrongly claim old video shows Chinese health workers' protest after zero-Covid policy eased
some health workers protested over unpaid wages after China's Covid policy change, the video in the posts predates the easing of restrictions in December.The post mocked the health workers for protesting in a bid to protect their jobs.
Pandemic workers in China are also referred to as"white guards", a reference to the Red Guards in the Cultural Revolution.Screenshot comparison of the video in the misleading post and old tweet . The same banner that reads"we want jobs; we need to eat!!" can be seen in the first screenshot comparison.on Twitter on May 10, 2022 that shows the same protest.
Below is a screenshot comparison of the video in the misleading posts and the other Twitter video from May with similarities highlighted by AFP:Using this, we confirmed the demonstration was staged outside the China Construction No. 2 Engineering Bureau Hospital in Tangshan city in Hebei province. A sign with the hospital's name could be seen in the background at the six-second mark of the second Twitter video from May.Corresponding apartment blocks can be seen close to the hospital, as shown below:The same apartment blocks can be seen in the video in the misleading posts and on Baidu maps
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