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Misleading posts spread on social media

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24.02.22 18:30
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Soon after President Putin declared the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine, videos and images claiming to be from the conflict began trending on major social networks.

While there is lots of genuine footage, some viral clips racking up hundreds of thousands of views show events from past conflicts or old military exercises. Many of these seem to coming from users posting content without checking.

The BBC has seen videos of the 2014 Russia-Ukraine war, the 2011 Libyan war and the 2020 Beirut explosions going viral.

In one example, a former Ukrainian ambassador to the US tweeted a video which he claimed was taken in Mariupol, but a version of the same clip was uploaded to TikTok weeks ago and apparently showing a lightning hitting a power station.

Another viral video claiming to show Russian military paratroopers landing in Ukraine first appeared online in 2016.

But Twitter seems to be taking a proactive role in confronting misleading content, as it seemed to have removed several videos proven to be old or false by fact-checkers and researchers.

Source: BBC