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Presenters:Vanessa Cheng 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.

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20/11/2025

No, Hurricane Melissa was not a man-made weather weapon

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.

20/11/2025 - 足本 Full

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Can soundwaves of a specific frequency kill parasites? And a look at a 'bending bridge' in Zhejiang province

Presenters:Vanessa Cheng and Tony Sabine

Claims are spreading across the globe that listening to soundwaves of a specific frequency can get rid of parasites and help our bodies detox. But is there any truth to this?

In this edition of Fact Focus, we will also look at an online video claiming to show a new "bending bridge" in Indonesia when in fact, the attraction is in China's Zhejiang province.

RTHK Radio 3

05/12/2024 - 足本 Full