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  • 2022-10-25 (xsd:date)
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  • Video shows anti-terror drill at German airport, not 'attack on Chinese citizens in New York' (en)
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  • False posts viewed tens of thousands of times have shared a video they claim shows the Chinese victims of a mass shooting at a train station in the US city of New York. However, the video actually shows an anti-terror drill conducted by German police at the Cologne Bonn airport in 2018. The 30-second video -- viewed more than 29,000 times -- was shared here on Twitter on October 20, 2022. It appears to show crowds of people running to safety as masked gunmen chase and shoot them down. *Breaking News*. There is a mass shooting going on in America's New York City right now. The wounded are all Chinese citizens. And most of them are students, reads the tweet's Urdu-language caption. Screenshot of the false post. Taken on October 25, 2022. The video circulated in October 2022 after a teenager was shot dead in a New York subway following an argument between two groups of young people, the New York Times reported . It was shared in similar false posts on Twitter here , here , here and here . It was also viewed over 10,000 times in Chinese-language Twitter posts here , here and here . However, the clip does not show a mass shooting. German anti-terror drill A reverse image search on Google followed by a keyword search found similar scenes in a video published here by German public broadcaster ARD on November 21, 2018. Around 1,000 police officers, customs officials and firefighters simulated a possible terrorist attack at Cologne/Bonn Airport, the German-language description reads. The brief training session witnessed by reporters was shockingly realistic: volleys from submachine guns, five attackers stormed the departure area in Terminal 1 of Cologne/Bonn Airport. Below are screenshots comparing scenes in the video in the false posts (left) with the video from ARD (right), with similar features highlighted by AFP: Similar videos had been used in reports on the drill at the time by German media General-Anzeiger , ntv , Rheinische Post and Bild . Taiwanese fact-checking outlet MyGoPen also debunked the video here after it circulated in Chinese-language posts. MyGoPen's report used a video shot from the same angle, also uploaded on November 21, 2018. Below is a screenshot comparison of the video in the false posts (left) with the video from MyGoPen's report (right): A view of the corresponding area inside the airport where the videos were shot can be seen here on Google Maps: (en)
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