| Title: | Austrian climate change protest video misused in false posts about Ukraine conflict |
| URL: | https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.32486M8 |
| Publisher: | AFP |
| Date published: | March 3, 2022 |
| Description: | As the civilian death toll mounted in Ukraine following Russia’s invasion, a video was viewed hundreds of thousands of times in social media posts that claim it shows a Ukrainian reporter inadvertently exposing fake war casualties in a live broadcast. This is false: the video shows a climate change protest in Austria that was staged weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine. |
Austrian climate change protest video misused in false posts about Ukraine conflict
As the civilian death toll mounted in Ukraine following Russia's invasion, a video was viewed hundreds of thousands of times in social media posts that claim it shows a Ukrainian reporter inadvertently exposing fake war casualties in a live broadcast. This is false: the video shows a climate change protest in Austria that was staged weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine.
