By my colleague @alistaircoleman
This video, shared by the former Ukrainian ambassador to the US with 150,000 views, was not taken in Mariupol this morning.https://twitter.com/alistaircoleman/status/1496780554766733312 …
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This video with 530,000 views is from the 2014 Euromaidan protests and unrelated to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It was circulating on day one of the war but has gone viral again on day three. H/T
@KianSharifipic.twitter.com/76Y3rbpr9x
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A false claim that pictures of a wounded woman in Chuhuiv, which was on the front page of several leading European newspapers, was in fact an old image from 2018 has been trending since last night. The images are genuine. Read this thread by @hoaxeye.https://twitter.com/hoaxeye/status/1497514958174699522 …
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This image from 2016 is being used in relation to the current war. There are many real videos and images from the last three days that document the courage and resilience of Ukrainians during this invasion. Why use an old one?pic.twitter.com/5c4ycgOp7y
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More on the viral image in the tweet above from NPR's
@dailydyl and why senior current and former politicians such as Congressman Adam Kinzinger and former Swedish PM Carl Bildt shouldn't be sharing it with millions of people.https://twitter.com/dailydyl/status/1497441405236658177 …Show this thread -
This video from the deadly 2015 Tianjin blasts in China has been shared on Facebook, TikTok, Twitter and Instagram in relation to the Ukraine war. It's one of those videos that pops up every time there's an explosion, missile attack or conflict. It will probably reappear soon.pic.twitter.com/zoMe4YJtcs
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This TikTok video with 27 million views shows men in military fatigues shouting and laughing in Russian as they parachute over farmland. But it was shot in 2015 by a member of the Russian armed forces and is therefore unrelated to the war in Ukraine.pic.twitter.com/MUmUKbNmRi
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This video of President Zelensky drinking tea with Ukrainian soldiers with 2.8 million views wasn't taken this morning, rather a week ago, before the war began. Mr Zelensky has been regularly addressing the nation via videos posted to his verified social accounts during the war.pic.twitter.com/0ZSqxGNV1v
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It's day four of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. This video of a paratrooper crashing into a residential building is not from Ukraine. It was filmed in Rio de Janeiro and posted to TikTok last year; fact-checked by
@Seana_Davis from@ReutersFacts. https://twitter.com/Seana_Davis/status/1497976368340119564 …pic.twitter.com/Q1f5bnxKTY
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This video with nearly 1 million views is from the military tactical shooter video game Arma 3 and unrelated to the war in Ukraine.pic.twitter.com/dG7Fzp6OSz
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India's Republic TV and some blue tick accounts were misled by a meme indicating an Air India passenger plane was flying over Ukrainian airspace, which has obviously been closed since the war began. Read this thread by
@RizviUzair from@AFPFactCheck.https://twitter.com/RizviUzair/status/1497849788934475779 …Show this thread -
This image of Mayor of Kyiv Vitali Klitschko has gone viral on Instagram claiming to show him on the front line. But the photo was posted by Mr Klitschko on Instagram in March 2021, showing him at the Desna training center in the Chernihiv region. Spotted by
@Nikki_Presenterpic.twitter.com/t807JHiiAX
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This video with over 900,000 views has been presented as a Ukrainian girl confronting a Russian soldier. It actually shows Palestinian girl Ahed Tamimi confronting an Israeli soldier in 2012. Twitter has labelled it as "out of context".pic.twitter.com/7LlQ1dx2Y9
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It's day five of war in Ukraine. Fake TikTok livestreams about Ukraine have become a huge issue on the platform, generating money for those who mislead users. Read this thread by
@abbieasr on how a fake video and old audio track were used in a livestream.https://twitter.com/abbieasr/status/1498348427159261190?s=21 …
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Conspiracy theorists have seized on a clip of Ukrainian MP Kira Rudyk's interview with Fox News - "We not only fight for Ukraine, we fight for this new world order for the democratic countries" - as evidence the war in Ukraine is part of the bid to establish a "new world order".pic.twitter.com/0qByw5MaY8
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A fake Anonymous video message vowing to empty the bank accounts of Russian citizens on 3 March was shared by the Kyiv Independent, forcing the outlet to issue a correction. Anonymous also confirmed the message was fake, saying: "We do not steal from the people."pic.twitter.com/PLoYrNJGFN
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There's a bizarre claim by CNBC Arabic's verified account that in retaliation for allegedly being left to fight Russia alone, President Zelensky unfollowed everyone on Twitter! That'd be news to Mr Zelensky, as a simple check shows he's never followed anyone on Twitter.pic.twitter.com/564B53Iz2x
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It's day six of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. A fake CNN report about actor Steven Seagal, a dual US-Russian citizen, fighting alongside Russian forces in Ukraine spread so widely that Joe Rogan fell for and shared it with his 14.7 million followers on Instagram. It's a hoax.pic.twitter.com/2YLe2MHkfu
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An image showing Ukrainian men holding carboard cutout guns has gone viral in conspiratorial circles, with claims the Ukraine war is a "media fabrication". The image is from trainings held by the Ukrainian military in early Feb for civilan volunteers willing to defend themselves.pic.twitter.com/TW79Vc9QPu
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This meme of a dog weeing on an image of President Putin is fake and unrelated to the Ukraine war. It first appeared in relation to a Brazillian politician but has since been used as a meme to poke fun at a variety of politicians, including Mr Putin.pic.twitter.com/3JE94y61Q1
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A ludicrous claim that non-existent American "Bernie Gores" was the first casualty of both the Taliban takeover and Ukraine war, meaning the war is fake or something, refuses to go away despite being debunked days ago. Read this thread by
@ddale8.https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1498414772743720965 …
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This video has racked up hundreds of thouands of views on multiple platforms as evidence the Ukraine war is a "hoax made by crisis actors". A director asks a crowd to run and scream in fear. But there are two problems: There's a British union flag visible, and it's from 2013.pic.twitter.com/YKF66W4fBl
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We're nearing the end of day seven of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This video claiming to show "Russian helicopters patrolling in the direction of Kyiv" today has racked up 250,000 views on Twitter and even more on TikTok. But it first appeared online before the Ukraine war.pic.twitter.com/HjpGTGrFgW
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A viral image claiming to show Ukrainian first lady Olena Zelenska fighting Russian forces on the frontline was actually captured in 2021 during rehearsals for a Ukrainian military parade, and doesn't show Ms Zelenska. It was fact-checked by
@SadeghiMckenzie from@USATODAY.pic.twitter.com/9H5SS3uN25
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Ukrainians are not selling used Russian tanks on eBay. No-one's selling tanks on eBay. It's a joke. H/T
@debunkerpic.twitter.com/2gkNKOD4g6
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Vladimir Putin's troops are not carrying out precision strikes against US-owned bioweapons labs in Ukraine, and they certainly aren't saving hundreds of millions of lives.pic.twitter.com/r9mYPKUCun
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It's day eight of the war in Ukraine. A clip from a CNN report has 2 million views on Facebook with claims Russia's sending nuke-capable jets to Venezuela in case war breaks out with the US. The CNN report is from 2018 about Russian military drills, fact-checked by
@Seana_Davis.pic.twitter.com/CPOtQtXQoA
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This video claims to show a Ukrainian man throwing an explosive item at a Russian tank. It's actually a clip from an 11-minute Airsoft video uploaded to YouTube in January. Twitter has labelled the clip "out of context". H/T
@hoaxeyepic.twitter.com/TasXgisWzD
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This video has gone viral on multiple platforms, spread widely by pro-Kremlin accounts. It claims to show a Ukrainian corpse moving, hence proving the war in Ukraine is a hoax or "Western propaganda". But the clip is from a climate change protest in Vienna in early February.pic.twitter.com/d2wSfLyeVj
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A video of a young girl and boy putting on blood makeup has racked up millions of views on multiple platforms as evidence the Ukraine war is fake and civilian vicitims are "crisis actors". But the video was shot in 2020 on the production set of the Ukrainian TV series Contamin.pic.twitter.com/VMWXuCv64O
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It's day nine of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. False claims of President Zelensky fleeing Ukraine have been repeatedly spread by pro-Russian media since day one. Here's George Papadopoulos, a former foreign policy adviser to President Trump, tweeting the same false claim.pic.twitter.com/9oWujHWA2X
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Staying on the theme from the previous tweet, Chinese state media outlets Global Times and CGTN both had to issue corrections after falsely reporting that President Zelensky had fled Kyiv. He hasn't. H/T
@kerrya11enpic.twitter.com/E2Zyel9rfl
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This video does not show the "ghost of Kyiv" taking on and shooting down a Russian fighter jet. It is Digital Combat Simulator (DCS).pic.twitter.com/0Mur4DP431
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