Ukraine invasion: False claims the war is a hoax go viral
Ukraine invasion False claims the war is a hoax go viral
Ukraine – Nearly two weeks after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the flow of false or misleading information about the war hasn’t let up and now there are some outlandish theories being shared online.
Some have begun to circulate claims the war is a hoax, a media fabrication, or has been exaggerated by the West in terms of its scale.
We’ve examined some of them.
False claims about “crisis actors”
A video of a young woman and a young man having fake blood applied to their faces has racked up millions of views on multiple platforms.
It is shared as supposed evidence that the war in Ukraine is a hoax and civilian victims are actually “crisis actors” – people hired to act out scenes from an attack.
But the video is unrelated to the war. It was shot in 2020 on the production set of Ukrainian TV series Contamin.
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The male actor can be seen in behind-the-scenes images from the set tweeted in December 2020.
A video of a news reporter in front of multiple body bags has gone viral on several major social networks and has been spread widely by pro-Kremlin accounts.
Seconds into the clip, one of the body bags start moving, a man removes the cover and is attended to by a photographer.
Social media posts claim the video was shot in Ukraine and proves the war is either a hoax or manufactured by “Western propaganda”.
But the claims are false. The video clip is from a climate change protest in Vienna in early February, as reported by Austrian newspaper Osterreich. Organised by “Friday for Future” climate activists, the depiction of body bags aimed to highlight the danger of carbon emissions to human life.
The same video was shared by conspiracy groups last month with false claims that it showed a Covid “crisis actor”.
False wooden guns claim
A screenshot of a Fox News broadcast showing two Ukrainian men holding what appear to be wooden guns has gone viral.
It is often accompanied by false claims that the war in Ukraine is a hoax and the fact that they are not real guns is proof of this.
Source – https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/60589965
