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  • 2021-08-20 (xsd:date)
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  • Old video resurfaces in misleading posts about death of Chinese steel plant worker (en)
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  • A video has been viewed tens of thousands of times in social media posts about the death of a Chinese steel plant worker in March 2021. But the claim is false: the video has circulated online since at least January 2018 in posts about an incident at a Chinese thermal power plant. On March 29, 2021, Wang Long, a 34-year-old employee of Baotou Steel, jumped into a 2000-degree steel furnace. The miserable scene made many people cry, reads the Chinese-language caption of this video shared on Twitter on July 30, 2021. The seven-second video -- which appears to show a person running towards a machine that then explodes -- has been viewed over 50,000 times. Warning Show Screenshot taken on August 16, 2021, of the misleading Twitter post Hide The same video was also published here , here and here on Twitter with similar claims. These posts circulated months after Baotou Steel, a Chinese state-owned iron and steel company located in Baotou city of northern China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, reported that a 34-year-old former employee it identified as Wang Long had jumped into a blast furnace on the evening of March 24, 2021. The incident was also reported by Chinese magazine Duzhe here and Chinese newspaper Xiaoxiang Morning Herald here . However, the posts are false. The video has been published online at least three years before the incident at Baotou Steel. Reverse image searches using keyframes extracted from the video found this corresponding footage published on Chinese video-sharing website Tencent Video on January 28, 2018. The caption of the 2018 footage states: Serious turbine overspeed incident at Zhejiang Hengyang Thermal Electric Plant . Below is a screenshot comparison of the video shared in the misleading posts (L) and the 2018 video posted on Tencent Video (R): Warning Show Screenshot comparison of the video shared in the misleading posts (L) and the 2018 video on Tencent Video (R) Hide The same video has also been previously shared in Chinese-language posts here in 2018 and here in 2019 that state the incident happened at the Zhejiang Hengyang plant in eastern China. The plant has not immediately responded to AFP's query on the video. (en)
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