Know the truth behind the viral Ukraine War and the China Eastern Airlines Plane crash tragedy’s prank fake footage rolling on social media
A viral video with hundreds of millions of views purports to depict the final moments of the crashed China Eastern Airlines Flight MU-5735. On the other side, they presented footage purportedly showing a Ukrainian fighter pilot known as “the Ghost of Kyiv” shooting down Russian planes.
In reality, both clips are from a video game and show nothing of the such.
China Eastern Airlines Plane Crash Prank Video Starts Going Viral
The plane appears to spin upside down in this 10-second video footage before colliding with the earth with a tremendous smash, drowning out the screams audible throughout the video.
On Tuesday, another video clip, which alleged to depict “the last moment recorded on the plane,” with more than 210,000 views and was reposted numerous times, was still up on Twitter.
The video was also featured in another tweet, which has since been removed and gained approximately 400,000 views.
#ALERT🚨: Video going viral of #ChinaEasternAirlines flight #MU5735 claiming to be from passengers view is #FAKE & belongs to a #FlightSimulator. The flight was performed by a 6.8 Year old #Boeing 737-89P B-1791, Which was not a MAX variant. #เครื่องบินตก #planecrash #China pic.twitter.com/E1r5UX0KQU
— Asia News (@asianewsteam) March 21, 2022
Friendly reminder to not believe everything you see on the internet.
This video is NOT from the plane crash that happened in China today. pic.twitter.com/VYE301ZXG3
— Isa🦋 (@coloroftherain_) March 21, 2022
(2) Another angle of the tragic Boeing plane crash in China 🕊 pic.twitter.com/2D9zSmLpo5
— Lady Scribe (@SHeReAdYeVenTs) March 21, 2022
The video that went viral was first published via YouTube, a little more than three years ago, and its description clearly implies that it is a computer simulation of an Ethiopian Airlines catastrophe in 2019.
Despite the fact that the film is simply a hypothetical unexperienced recreation, it has been seen over 33 million times since it was uploaded in March 2019.
The clip’s appearance on Twitter on Monday is the latest in a series of footage from a video game or computer simulation using it to get social media attention by purporting to be footage from a real-world event.
Experts argue that as visuals have improved in recent years, these sorts of movies have become a cheap and easy way to propagate disinformation.
The Ukraine War’s Fake Footage
similar to the footage from the crashed China Eastern Airlines Flight MU-5735, the same techniques are also used to propagate propaganda and deception after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24.
In late February, a video circulated on Facebook purporting to show an elite Ukrainian jet pilot known as “the Ghost of Kyiv” taking down Russian planes.
According to PolitiFact, the film came from a free online video game called Digital Combat Simulator, and the “Ghost of Kyiv” is most likely a viral tale that spread throughout the battle.
The YouTube video’s description claimed, “This footage is from DCS, but is nevertheless made out of respect for ‘The Ghost of Kyiv.”
Video Game Footage As A Subject Of Fact-Checking
These sorts of disinformation films appeared to gather popularity in the early years of the Syrian civil war. In a very short period of time, the quality of video game pictures has risen enormously, making it simpler for social media power and influence kickers and those with more sinister motives to pass them off as actual footage.
Fake footage culled from simulations and films has been used to deceive people to varying degrees of effectiveness.
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