Without going into too much detail, my job involves the online moderation of a community of customers, and part of those duties include putting together a list of 20 true/false quiz questions every week.
As tempting as it would be to go totally mask-off, I need to maintain plausibly deniability, but would like to be just based enough to pique curiosity. If anyone can suggest some strange-but-true facts or wild-assumed-but-false beliefs of a brain-blowing nature, all easily citable, it would make my job a lot more satisfying. Information related to China/Asia preferred.
Here's the kind of thing I have in mind:
Chinse law prohibits workplace collective action - FALSE Half of all oceanborne plastic is from discarded commercial fishing nets - TRUE Polls have found as many as 95.% of Chinese are "satisfied" with their national government - TRUE Air pollution levels in Beijing have increased by 30% since 2014 - FALSE
Please share your ideas. Thanks.
"Half of all oceanborne plastic is from discarded commercial fishing nets - TRUE"
This is not true. At least get your facts right first. 10% of all ocean plastic is from fishing gear.
https://c402277.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/publications/1394/files/original/ADVOCACY_REPORT_singles.pdf?1603134868
If you're citing from Seaspiracy, it's a fun doc but they twist a lot of local statistics to apply globally.
Related is the ol' MSG gives you headaches myth. Easily sourceable, demonstrably not true, calls people out on particularly anti Asian beliefs of westerners.
