| Title: | This video shows the aftermath of the Lebanon port blast in 2020 — not Ukraine in 2022 |
| URL: | https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.324844N |
| Publisher: | AFP |
| Date published: | March 8, 2022 |
| Description: | A video of heavily damaged buildings has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times online alongside a claim it shows the “situation in Ukraine” as a civilian disaster is growing in the country following Russia’s invasion. But the video has been shared in a false context: it shows the aftermath of a cataclysmic port blast in Lebanon that levelled entire neighbourhoods in the capital Beirut in August 2020. |
This video shows the aftermath of the Lebanon port blast in 2020 — not Ukraine in 2022
A video of heavily damaged buildings has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times online alongside a claim it shows the "situation in Ukraine" as a civilian disaster is growing in the country following Russia's invasion. But the video has been shared in a false context: it shows the aftermath of a cataclysmic port blast in Lebanon that levelled entire neighbourhoods in the capital Beirut in August 2020.
