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“Visuals of artificial apples manufacturing process in China”
Social media posts Claim dated 1 Jan 2022.
FACTLY rated thisFALSE

What FACTLY found

The video shared in the post was first published by a Tik Tok user named ‘@cacao_ing’. This video shows the manufacturing process of chocolate apple candies in China. The Chinese give these candies as Christmas or Valentine’s Day gifts for their loved ones. These chocolate apple candies are available on all Chinese e-commerce websites. The apples in the video are not the real ones

Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.

In short

This claim spread on social media around 1 January 2022. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 18 January 2022, 17 days later. Its rating was “FALSE”.

Where the claim appeared

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