主持人：Priscilla Ng and Tony Sabine
Our Fact Focus team works to dispel 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.
At least 90 people have died and hundreds of thousands evacuated, with experts estimating losses to be in the billions of US dollars after Hurricane Melissa battered the Caribbean last month.
Jamaica was the hardest hit, fuelling conspiracies claiming that the deadly storm was the product of a man-made weather weapon aimed at undermining the government there.
However, an expert we spoke to says there's no existing technology capable of creating or steering a hurricane. So how did Melissa grow so rapidly, developing into a lethal hurricane in such a short timeframe?
Elvis Yu takes a closer look in this edition of Fact Focus.
主持人：Priscilla Ng and Tony Sabine
HMPV is an old virus that's been circulating among humans for decades. And this winter, when cases began to spread on the mainland, so did a deluge of disinformation suggesting a new global pandemic was on the way.
Similarities were drawn with the onset of Covid-19 more than five years ago, with the fake news stoking anti-China sentiment. So what is HMPV and should we be concerned?
Find out more in this edition of Fact Focus.
