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Social media site customers have actually shared an old video clip of a residence in China breaking down in floodwater with an incorrect case that it was recorded throughout lethal floodings that strike north Thailand in September 2024. The video clip has actually formerly flowed in Chinese records released 4 years back.
” I regret the loss. Your home took a long period of time to construct. I saw this and wept,” checked out an inscription of a TikTok post released on September 17, 2024 together with numerous hashtags, consisting of #ChiangRaiFlood and #FloodsinNorthernThailand 2024.
The message shared a 14-second video clip of a residence bordered by floodwater breaking down.
It has actually been checked out greater than 520,000 times.
The incorrect case flowed after north Thailand was drastically impacted by flash floodings as Typhoon Yagi barrelled with Southeast Asia and left greater than 500 individuals dead (archived link).
The kingdom’s north districts were struck hard, with one area reporting its worst inundations in 80 years.
The video clip with the exact same incorrect case has actually been shared on Facebook, YouTube and TikTok.
Nonetheless, the video clip has actually flowed because July 2020 and reveals a residence ruined by floodings in eastern China.
Flooding in China
Utilizing a reverse picture search on Google and Baidu, AFP mapped the video clip to report and social media sites blog posts concerning flooding in China in July 2020.
Record flooding struck huge swathes of main and eastern China at the time, and left greater than 140 individuals dead or absent (archived link).
State-run China Information Solution (CNS) published the clip in a record dated July 9, 2020 with a title that checked out: “ A structure in Poyang, Jiangxi ruined in an immediate by floodings” (archived link).
” Some 710mm of hefty rains in Poyang Region, Shangrao City in Jiangxi District in current days has actually resulted in the collapse of a dike in Wengguidao,” the video clip’s inscription read. “A huge quantity of flooding water rose with and swamped 5 towns.”
Below is a screenshot contrast in between the incorrect TikTok message (left) and the China Information Solution record (right):
One more Chinese online information electrical outlet The Paper additionally released the same clip on July 9, 2020 in a record concerning the floodings (archived link).
” Three-storey structure in Poyang Jiangxi ruined in an immediate by floodwater,” the record’s heading read. “Locals left before the event.”
The same video was additionally shared virally on Chinese video-sharing system Bilibili in July 2020, where customer remarks connected the video clip to flooding in Poyang (archived link).
AFP has actually unmasked false information pertaining to the flooding in north Thailand here
