Recently, a piece of news about “The Australian Government is urgently asking people to stock up on food and drinking water” spread on overseas social media platforms. The claim originated from a screenshot of the news produced by Britain's “Guardian”. As verified by Agence France-Presse, “The Guardian” has not published any relevant Australian reports. The screenshot was actually altered from the newspaper's report on the British government's daily emergency preparedness propaganda, and only replaced the subject of the report in the headline from Britain to Australia. In response to online news, Australia's National Emergency Management has clearly responded: the government is not asking people to hoard food or drinking water.

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