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Social media awash with fake news about Ukrainian invasion

Not surprising that the saboteurs of truth are out in their legions but for those who prefer reality we will attempt to try and keep up where possible.

  • A video of military planes flying overhead, widely shared on Facebook, is claimed to be footage from the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This is false–it actually shows footage of a military parade rehearsal from May 2020.
     
  • A post on Facebook claims a video which includes a number of different clips depicts Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. It was posted on the morning of 24 February 2022 and at the time of writing has over 19,000 views. The two-minute video contains five different clips. One was definitely not taken in Ukraine, one was not taken during the current invasion, one was taken from a video game, one may have been taken in Ukraine over the last 24 hours and one we were not able to verify at all.
     
  • A video shared on Facebook, which has been viewed over 77,000 times, claims to show footage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February. Some of the clips included in the video are clearly not of the invasion as they predate it.
     
  • A post shared over 1,000 times on Facebook features three images of explosions, with a caption describing the current invasion of Ukraine and stating: “Explosions have been heard in Ukraine after Russia launched a full-scale invasion this morning.” One of the photographs is of an explosion in Ukraine. The other two show explosions in Gaza.

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