“They banned face masks in Hong Kong. Why? Because they have AI technology that now is using facial recognition to identify protesters if they so much as do anything on the street, so they can follow up with them and detain them later.”
Andrew Yang
Entrepreneur. in a Democratic primary debate. Claim dated 20 Dec 2019.
PolitiFact rated thisHalf True
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Andrew Yang (Entrepreneur) made this claim around 20 December 2019. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 20 December 2019. Its rating was “Half True”.
Andrew Yang has 7 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 1 of them false or fake, 4 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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