News media needs to be quick and provide the most exclusive images possible, and the more sensational they are, the better. However, a fairly widespread medium, which not only has an online presence but also a daily newspaper and a TV station, apparently did not take it too seriously as to whether the videos were really up to date. Why also check sources of videos? They must be real, after all they are on the internet! Correct?

A 2015 explosion

No, not really right, because on the Internet people like to label old videos as current in order to get likes and shares. Here is an example of how a video of an explosion can be seen in a report from that medium (top picture)…

No recent explosion in Kyiv
No recent explosion in Kyiv

which actually comes from 2015 in Tijanjin/China (bottom picture, original video see HERE and HERE ) and shows the explosion of a warehouse.

But this wasn't the only faux pas.

Skydiver from 2014

Parachutists were also shown who were supposedly about to land in Ukraine:

Skydiver... in 2016
Skydiver… in 2014, Source: Twitter

The video supposedly shows Russian parachutists about to take Kiev:

But the video is anything but current; it dates from 2014:

At that time, around 2,000 parachutists landed at the same time in the Rostov region in southern Russia.

The report with the old videos has now been set to “private” . Many Twitter users demonstrated their media literacy and pointed the original videos to the news site, which is why the report is apparently currently being edited:

However, it wasn't just "a few seconds" of video material, but not just longer excerpts that were shown repeatedly, including false claims that, for example, they were parachutists over Kiev.

Conclusion

The fact that a medium is widely distributed and frequently consumed is not necessarily a guarantee that it is quality journalism, because it often turns out that quantity and sensational journalism take precedence over quality, and corrections are only made when there is one a wide range of Internet users become aware of the errors.

Unfortunately, that's not always the case. Fakes and untruths often remain unmolested on the Internet, which is almost never forgotten, for months or years. But not in this case, in which many users used their media skills to show that not every untruth is swallowed without comment.

And that is exactly what we at Mimikama want. Cheers to you chirping birds on Twitter!


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