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A video showing a Ukrainian reporter accidentally exposing fake war casualties on a live broadcast, was seen hundreds of thousands of time in social media posts as the civilian death rate in Ukraine rose following Russia’s invasion. This is false: The video shows an Austrian climate protest that was held weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine.
The video was ShareOn Weibo, March 1, 2022
It has been viewed over 600,000 times.
The clip shows a journalist standing in front of rows of body bags.
A person can be seen moving inside the body bag before a woman rushes over and zips it back up.
The simplified Chinese-language caption of the post reads: “This is a Ukrainian TV news report about the number killed in the Russia-Ukraine war.”
“In the live stream, the “corpse”, who was covered in black cloth and lying on his back, suddenly extended out his arm to pull off the black cloth.
“Another staff member noticed the situation and quickly covered him with the black fabric.”
A screenshot taken March 3, 2022 of the false post.According to Ukrainian authorities, at most 350 civilians, including 14 kids, have been killed. Hundreds of thousands have fled the country after Russia’s invasion. Here.
The United States raised alarm over the “staggering human cost” of the invasion. The apparent deployment of cluster-bombs and other treaty violating weapons raised fears of an aggressive escalation in the already-delayed conflict.
A similar claim was also shared with footage from the same broadcast. HereAnd HereDouyin, the Chinese equivalent of TikTok; HereIn a Thai-language Facebook Post
However, the video does not relate to Russia’s invasion Ukraine.
Austria demonstration
A reverse image search on video keyframes led to the video published. HereReport by Oe24, Austrian media outlet on February 4, 2022
The video’s German language chyron reads “Vienna – Demo against climate policies.”
According to the report, “Friday, February 4, 2022 will mark 400 days in which Austria does not have a greenhouse gas reduction target.”
“Fridays For Future” warned that this was a deadly situation and that every tonne of carbon dioxide, the climate crisis is increasing.
“In the afternoon activists presented 49 “climate bodies bags” in front Federal Chancellery Vienna.
Below is a comparison of the video in the false postings (left) and Oe24’s original report (right).
Comparison of the video in the false postings (left) and Oe24’s original report (right).Verena Mattlschweiger, spokesperson of Fridays For Future Austria (and co-organiser) said that the protest is “solely about climate crisis.”
Matlschweiger stated that the dead bodies were meant to be a symbol and not intended to show actual corpses.
Fridays For Future shared similar photos taken at the protest TwitterAnd Facebook.
“Activists laid ‘dead” in front of the Chancellery during Fridays For Future Today today [building]. They represent people who will die because of Austria’s failure to address climate change,” the organisation’s statement. TweetFebruary 4,
Seit 400 Tagen hat Österreich kein wirksames Klimaschutzgesetz.
Und das mit einer Bundesregierung, die sich „Klimaschutz“ groß auf die Fahnen schreibt.
Durch jeden Tag (!), an dem Österreich seine Treibhausgasemissionen nicht senkt, werden 49 Menschen zu Tode kommen.
Thread! pic.twitter.com/nScxYLhhz4
— Fridays For Future Wien – #DontFuelWar (@ViennaForFuture) February 4, 2022
The newspaper reported the protest. Austria Press AgencyFind local newspapers Der Standard.
AFP previously DebunkedFalse posts claiming that the video shows fake Covid-19 death.
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