I recently came across an article regarding a covert chinese police station operating in Vancouver. According to the article, a Spanish human rights group uncovered two more Chinese police stations operating in Canada. In total, the group has identified 102 police stations in 53 different countries. I found this very intruiging, so I decided to read the article, and do a fact check to see if it’s true or not.
Here’s a link to the article: https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/alleged-chinese-police-station-identified
- Check the source: The first thing I did was check the source. The article is from Daily Hive News, and it includes a link to a tweet from @SafeguardDefend on twitter.
On Twitter, this source is verified, which means they are who they say they are. This means it’s more likely a source you can trust.
2. Verify the source: To verify the source, I looked up Daily Hive on Wikipedia, and found an article.
In the article, I found that Daily Hive was accused of unethical journalism practices, plagiarism and fearmongering. This suggests that Daily Hive is not a reliable source.
3. Fact Checking Tools: I opened up Snopes.com to search up my topic.
Unfortunatly, Snopes.com did not have any articles related to the subject.
When I searched “covert chinese police stations hoax” into google, the results were all different articles supporting the same subject. This led me to believe that the article was real, because so many other sources had also written about it.
4. Check other sources: When doing a Google search with the word hoax, I found out that many other news outlets had also reported the same thing. These news outlets include The Guardian, CNN, Global News, CBC and more. The articles all had a general consesus regarding the covert chinese police stations.
In conclusion, after fact-checking, I believe that this story is true. It has been reported by many different reliable news networks, and also tweeted by verified accounts on Twitter.