| Title: | Video clips mischaracterized as showing fake Ukraine war footage |
| URL: | https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/oct/26/viral-image/video-clips-mischaracterized-showing-fake-ukraine/ |
| Publisher: | PolitiFact |
| Date published: | October 26, 2022 |
| Description: | A recent Instagram post sharing a TikTok video issues a “wake up call,” purportedly pointing to several clips as evidence that scenes of war in Ukraine have been staged. Using reverse image searches and InVid, a site that helps identify the origins of video clips, we found the ones featured in the Instagram post, and neither is meant to show real footage of the war in Ukraine. Those claims were wrong, and so is this one. We rate the claim that these clips show fake war footage in Ukraine Pants on Fire. |
Video clips mischaracterized as showing fake Ukraine war footage
A recent Instagram post sharing a TikTok video issues a "wake up call," purportedly pointing to several clips as evidence that scenes of war in Ukraine have been staged.
Using reverse image searches and InVid, a site that helps identify the origins of video clips, we found the ones featured in the Instagram post, and neither is meant to show real footage of the war in Ukraine.
Those claims were wrong, and so is this one. We rate the claim that these clips show fake war footage in Ukraine Pants on Fire.
