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      Did Greta Thunberg Urge Chinese People To Stop Using Chopsticks?

      No record of Greta Thunberg making such remarks were found while a spokesperson for Thunberg rejected the posts as baseless.

      By - AFP |
      Published -  26 April 2021 7:38 PM IST
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      Did Greta Thunberg Urge Chinese People To Stop Using Chopsticks?

      Social media posts shared thousands of times claim Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg urged Chinese people to stop using traditional chopsticks in order to save trees. The claim is false: AFP found no record of such remarks, while a spokesperson for Thunberg rejected the posts as baseless.

      "Greta Thunberg urges Chinese people to abandon traditional chopsticks and thus save trees and forests," reads a post shared on April 15, 2021 in a Facebook group with more than 30,000 members.

      "Chinese People's response is to urge Greta to return to school, where she can learn that chopsticks are made of bamboo, which is a species of grass."

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      The post features a photo of the 18-year-old climate activist, who has donated 100,000 euros ($120,000) from her foundation to the Covax scheme for global access to Covid-19 jabs.


      Screenshot taken on April 20, 2021, of the Facebook post

      The claim has circulated on social media since at least January 2020, when it appeared in a tweet reading, "Greta said don't use chopsticks. Cuz it is symbol of environmental destruction (sic)."

      It has since been widely shared in Chinese posts (here, here and here), and in various other languages such as French and Danish.


      Screenshot taken on July 21, 2020 on Twitter

      However, the claim is false. AFP ran keyword searches in English and Chinese and found no reliable record that Thunberg said Chinese people should stop using chopsticks to save trees.

      Contacted by AFP, a spokesperson for Thunberg said the young activist "never" made such comments.

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      "Greta has never made those or related comments, nor has she received such a message," a spokesperson said via email on April 15, 2021.

      Social media posts featuring the claim in various languages are mostly literal translations of this Facebook post from March 11, 2020, which has been shared more than 7,000 times.

      The post, like various others sharing the claim, features a photo of Thunberg speaking at the UN Climate Action Summit on September 23, 2019. However, a transcript of her speech shows she did not mention chopsticks.

      A leading figure in the fight against climate change, the young Swede is regularly targeted by misinformation.

      In September 2019, a manipulated photo appeared to show Thunberg alongside US billionaire George Soros. The original photo in fact showed her posing with former US vice president Al Gore.

      Another altered photo purported to show her tucking into lunch on a train while poor children looked on.

      AFP has also debunked the same claim in French language here, Spanish here, and Hungarian here.

      (Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by BOOM staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)

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      Claim :   Greta Thunberg urged Chinese people to stop using chopsticks to save trees.
      Claimed By :  Posts on Facebook and Twitter
      Fact Check :  False
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