With the rise of social media and generative AI, how much of what we see online is true? In this new series, SCMP Fact-Check, the Post investigates claims circulating online and debunks viral misinformation impacting the daily lives of Hongkongers. A 16-second clip was shared on Facebook on Thursday and has amassed more than 200,000…
By the mid-2000s, Hong Kong director Johnnie To Kei-fung was in full command of the style, form and content of the gangster genre. These three films demonstrate a master of technique at the height of his powers. Exiled (2006) To’s 1990s crime films played out like neat French policiers. But Exiled is more Italian in…
A sense of sombre unity permeated the whole of Hong Kong on Saturday as residents from all walks of life mourned the victims of the city’s deadliest fire in seven decades by signing condolence books or flooding areas near the scene of the inferno with bouquets. By Saturday evening, lengthy queues had grown near ground…
Beneath the podium at Kwong Fuk Estate in Tai Po, between rows of relief booths and supply tables stacked with bottled water and meal boxes, a group of children took a break from their volunteering duties. But they did not rest for long. As soon as they finished eating, they darted through the crowds to…
William Li, 40, is one of the survivors in Hong Kong’s Tai Po fire tragedy. The deadliest inferno in decades set seven blocks in the Wang Fuk Court residential complex ablaze, claiming at least 128 lives as of Friday. Li was rescued from Wang Cheong House – the block that first caught fire – on…
You probably haven’t heard someone proudly say, “We met on Facebook Dating,” out loud. And yet, quietly, in the underbelly of your uncle’s favorite app, it’s… kind of booming. Ew. Facebook Dating launched in 2019 as an opt-in section inside the main Facebook app, letting people spin up a separate dating profile and match with…
JOHANNESBURG: Google will pay more than $40 million to support South African news media, many of them floundering in a digital age, the country’s competition authority said Thursday.Tech giants, including TikTok, X and Facebook, have come under fire for anti-trust practices that the watchdog says hurt local media by limiting their ability to distribute and…
Claim: A video authentically shows a “racist cop” kicking a Black FBI agent out of a coffee shop. Rating: Rating: Fake A rumor that circulated online in November 2025 claimed a video showed a “racist cop” kicking a Black FBI agent out of a coffee shop. On Nov. 10, a user managing the Bowmayladastory Facebook…
It’s Z hottest matchmaking app on the map. Facebook is finally clicking with Gen Zers on the market, as singles in their 20s are turning to the decades-old site’s “Dating” feature for love. “Facebook Dating has me in a chokehold — I’m literally obsessed,” Lexa, 27, admitted in a viral vid, after confessing she’d previously thought that…
Claim: MSNBC host Rachel Maddow revealed Speaker of the House Mike Johnson’s wife’s ties to a hidden LLC suspiciously linked to multimillion-dollar transactions on live television. Rating: Rating: False A rumor that circulated online in late October 2025 claimed MSNBC television host Rachel Maddow exposed — on live television — that the wife of Speaker…