Refugees in Kiev: No, an Italian broadcaster did not show a scene from “Deep Impact”

“This scene was on an Italian TV channel!” – “Aha.
Nice picture, but can you also prove that it was broadcast there?" - "I don't have to, just prove to me that it was NOT broadcast". A typical dialogue that takes place again and again: Spreaders of fakes like to demand that their claims be refuted, without wanting to prove their own claims. In this case, the counter-evidence is actually relatively simple: an Italian broadcaster did not broadcast a scene from “Deep Impact” to show people fleeing in Kiev. The creator of the fake made a serious mistake!

The claim

This sharepic is shared on social media:

The same picture can be seen twice. The top image contains the words “Fuga da Kiev” (“Escape from Kiev” in German) and the logo of the Italian TV channel TGCOM24 at the top right. The image below is labeled “Scena del film Deep Impact” (in German “Scene from the film Deep Impact”).

The fact check

In fact, the scene in the photos is from the film “Deep Impact”, and some frames of the scene from other perspectives can also be seen in the film’s trailer

Striking: The two images on the sharepic show absolutely the same frame from “Deep Impact”, which can mean two things: Either the creator of the sharepic took the trouble to look for the absolutely same frame in the TV show and in the film (which is... 24 frames per second is a real challenge) or he simply copied the image, made it a little paler and moved the crop a little.

Both are possible, but the “comfortable” method is not only more likely, but also provable, because the sharepic contains a major error: the station logo!

Let's see what the station logo looks like on the sharepic:

The channel logo is at the top right of the sharepic, with “TG” written in white on a blue background, and “COM24” written next to it in white on a red background.

And now let's see what the station logo on the homepage :

So far so good. The logos are similar, but does this prove that it was actually shown on the Italian channel?

Wrong, because now let's see how the logo is displayed when contributions are broadcast.
On TGCOM24 the logo can be seen in two ways. Once at the bottom right:

And once at the top right:

How easy to see:

• If the channel logo is at the bottom right, “Mediaset” is written above it.
• If the station logo is at the top right, TGCOM is at the top and 24 is below

From this it can be concluded that the creator of the sharepic simply took the station's logo from the homepage and slapped it on an image from the film "Deep Impact" and then claimed that the station broadcast it that way.

Conclusion

Several other fact-checkers such as Butac and AFP also asked the TV station whether this scene was broadcast in connection with people fleeing Kiev, but this was denied. This would certainly have been noticed by many more Italians.

But the channel logo on the sharepic already shows that it is a complete fake and that the creator didn't even put much effort into it: the absolutely same frame from the film was used, and the channel logo is also not the same as those that can be seen on TV broadcasts.

The sharepic is therefore clearly a fake.

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