About: http://data.cimple.eu/claim-review/914a865e6791df1d844dcf63875149b30d7067a87caecb3da9041576

Facets (new session)
Description
Metadata
Settings
- owl:sameAs
- Inference Rule:

About: http://data.cimple.eu/claim-review/914a865e6791df1d844dcf63875149b30d7067a87caecb3da9041576 Goto Sponge NotDistinct Permalink

An Entity of Type : schema:ClaimReview, within Data Space : data.cimple.eu associated with source document(s)

Attributes	Values
rdf:type	schema:ClaimReview
http://data.cimple...lizedReviewRating	not verifiable
schema:url	http://fullfact.org/online/australian-navy-illegal-immigrant-boat/
schema:text	Hundreds of people have shared Facebook posts falsely claiming to show two Australian Navy ships ramming “a boat loaded with illegal immigrants that did not respond to requests to stop”. The posts, which have also been shared on X (formerly known as Twitter), add: “The illegal immigrants were all returned, the crew members arrested and the boat scrapped.” They also say “that’s the way you do it!”—implying that similar tactics should be used in the UK. But this picture doesn’t show ships from the Australian Navy or a boat carrying migrants. As we have written before, when the same false claim went viral in 2020, the picture was taken in 2012 and actually shows a flare-up in tensions between China and Japan over a small group of islands in the East China Sea. The two large vessels are Japanese ships, with the smaller boat carrying a group of Chinese activists who were arrested by Japan after planting Chinese and Taiwanese flags on a small islet. The islet is part of a tiny group of uninhabited islands controlled by Japan, where they are called the Senkaku Islands, but claimed by China, where they are called the Diaoyu Islands (they are known as the Diaoyutai Islands in Taiwan). But while the image does not show this, it is true that Australia does turn back people undertaking an “unauthorised boat voyage” to the country, or otherwise returns them to their home country or moves them to a third country for processing. This is carried out under Operation Sovereign Borders, which has been live since 2013 and is run by Australia’s military. The Australian government does release monthly updates on Operation Sovereign Borders, but the overall picture of the number of people turned back is incomplete. Between December 2013 and June 2018, the government said 810 people had been turned back or subject to an “assisted return”. Misleading images are some of the most common kinds of misinformation we see online, but they can sometimes be hard to spot. It’s always worth checking if a picture shows what the post says it does before you share it—we have written a guide on how to do so here.
schema:mentions	East China Sea Empire of Japan The Australian Chinese language United States Navy Taiwan Australia Twitter United Kingdom Facebook Islet Senkaku Islands dbpedia:Operation_Sovereign_Borders
schema:reviewRating	This isn’t what the picture shows. It was taken in 2012 and actually shows two Japanese ships trapping a smaller boat carrying Chinese activists in the East China Sea, close to a group of uninhabited islands contested by the two nations. Australia does turn back people who make unauthorised boat voyages.
schema:author	full-fact
schema:datePublished	2023-08-22 (xsd:date)
schema:inLanguage	English
schema:itemReviewed	http://data.cimple.eu/claim/f790e0997b93dd44c4565cf3d766336a657ea90b23d8f05cbafc196b

Faceted Search & Find service v1.16.115 as of Oct 09 2023

Alternative Linked Data Documents: ODE Content Formats:

RDF

ODATA

Microdata

About

OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3238 as of Jul 16 2024, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-musl), Single-Server Edition (126 GB total memory, 11 GB memory in use)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2025 OpenLink Software