| Title: | Doctored Italian TV screenshot shared to discredit Ukraine war coverage |
| URL: | https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.32692J2 |
| Publisher: | AFP |
| Date published: | March 17, 2022 |
| Description: | An image comparing what appears to be an Italian television network’s coverage of the war in Ukraine to a shot from a movie has spread online in posts claiming the media is lying about Russia’s invasion. But the network’s parent company rejected the claim, a word is missing from the TGCOM24 logo used in the posts, and AFP found no evidence of the footage being broadcast on the channel. |
Doctored Italian TV screenshot shared to discredit Ukraine war coverage
An image comparing what appears to be an Italian television network's coverage of the war in Ukraine to a shot from a movie has spread online in posts claiming the media is lying about Russia's invasion. But the network's parent company rejected the claim, a word is missing from the TGCOM24 logo used in the posts, and AFP found no evidence of the footage being broadcast on the channel.
