| Title: | German daily Bild did not produce report about ‘Ukrainian refugees burning down a house’ |
| URL: | https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.32BJ9ET |
| Publisher: | AFP |
| Date published: | June 7, 2022 |
| Description: | A video has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times in social media posts that claim it is a report by German tabloid newspaper Bild about Ukrainian refugees who burned down a house while attempting to set fire to a Russian flag. However, the claims are false; AFP found the video had been fabricated using unrelated old clips to look like a real Bild production. A spokesperson for the newspaper confirmed the report was not genuine. |
German daily Bild did not produce report about ‘Ukrainian refugees burning down a house’
A video has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times in social media posts that claim it is a report by German tabloid newspaper Bild about Ukrainian refugees who burned down a house while attempting to set fire to a Russian flag. However, the claims are false; AFP found the video had been fabricated using unrelated old clips to look like a real Bild production. A spokesperson for the newspaper confirmed the report was not genuine.
