This fake news about the earthquake circulated and was refuted One more thing: US jet knocks down unknown flying object in Canada – an overview

After the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, there is a lot of fake news on social media. In addition to some conspiracy stories about who is supposedly behind the earthquake and pro-Russian propaganda that is being spread, there are also numerous videos circulating on the internet that are said to have been made in the context of the earthquake. Fact-checkers managed to refute this many times and put it in context.

A video on TikTok showed a man fleeing a room with two children during an earthquake. The video is said to have been made in Turkey on February 6. However, Correctiv fact-checkers found that the video was shot on November 30, 2018, during an earthquake in Alaska.

Places and times of the videos are partly taken out of context

Even a video on Twitter cannot withstand a fact check. The video is said to show the explosion of a nuclear power plant caused by the earthquake. According to research by the editors of ARD Faktenfinder, the video was shot on August 4, 2020 in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon. It therefore shows the explosion of hundreds of tons of ammonium nitrate near the port of Beirut, which killed more than 200 people.

The “Correctiv” fact-checkers also checked a video on Telegram, which allegedly showed a tsunami in Turkey after the earthquake. The video was taken on March 12, 2017 and shows high waves on the coast of Durban in South Africa caused by high winds – not an earthquake.

Another TikTok video is said to show the collapse of several tall buildings during the earthquake in Turkey. However, according to research by “Correctiv”, these are recordings from August 2021 that show the controlled demolition of several never-completed buildings in southern China.

(t-online, CSI)