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  • 2022-01-25 (xsd:date)
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  • This video shows a fictional US television drama -- it does not relate to the pandemic (en)
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  • A video has been viewed thousands of times in multiple Chinese social media posts alongside a claim it shows bodies of Covid-19 victims being dumped into a shipping container in the US. The posts circulated online as the US recorded thousands of daily Covid-19 deaths. But the video has been shared in a false context: it actually shows a scene from a fictional American television drama. The video was published here on Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, on January 6, 2022. It appears to show a truck dumping bodies into a shipping container. The simplified-Chinese text superimposed on the video translates as: Jan 6, US reported more than a million cases in a day, with 2590 people died in one day, more than 850K people have died from Covid-19. In fact, these figures are incorrect. The US recorded 717,289 cases and 2,729 deaths from Covid-19 on January 6, 2022, according to World Health Organization (WHO) data . As of January 24, it has recorded 868,318 deaths from the disease since the beginning of the pandemic, according to an AFP tally. The video was titled: #USCovid-19 US ain’t cool anymore! Some social media users appeared to believe the video really shows dead bodies being dumped in the US. So scary, and the person standing there wasn't even wearing a mask, one user commented. Another wrote: This is typical US -- arrogant. The same video was also shared on Douyin here and here alongside a similar claim. In fact, the footage was taken from a fictional American drama. A combination of reverse image and keyword searches on Google found the video was actually taken from US fictional television drama The Stand . Further investigation found a longer version of the video published on a Chinese-language YouTube channel as a movie review . The video's title reads: #Movie review #The Stand #Biochemical lab leak. A biochemical lab, that belongs to the US, has leaked. It caused a catastrophe to the human species, the text overlay the video reads. Screenshot comparison between video in misleading posts (left) and YouTube video (right) (en)
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