Video game falsely shared as ‘live footage’ of Ukraine conflict

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Title: Video game falsely shared as ‘live footage’ of Ukraine conflict
URL: https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.323T3PA
Publisher: AFP
Date published: March 1, 2022
Description:

As Russia pressed on with its invasion of Ukraine, a video clip was viewed thousands of times in Facebook and YouTube posts that claimed it showed live footage of the fighting. In reality, the footage was taken from a combat video game called ARMA 3.