• A video released in recent days would show a staging of corpses in Ukraine.

    A proven staging since one of the corpses would move.

  • This video is a montage made from an Austrian report on a demonstration against the climate in Vienna on February 4, 2022, more than 20 days before the invasion of Ukraine by Russia.

  • This is not the first time that this report has been used to create false information since it had been tampered with to make believe in an instrumentalization about the Covid-19.

Communication is crucial in times of war.

And the conflict between Ukraine and Russia since the attack on the latter is no exception.

The images shared from the front are multiplying and their interpretations with it.

In recent days, many Internet users have shared a video showing a man appearing in front of dozens of bodies on the ground, all covered with a body bag, suggesting corpses that are masked.

According to these same Internet users, this video would have been shot in Ukraine, and broadcast on a local channel, and the bodies are presented as victims of an attack by Russian forces.

A banner, visible in the image, specifies this context.

But a detail calls out, in the background, behind the presenter, one of the bodies begins to move and replaces the tarpaulin supposed to hide it.

A third person even intervenes to help him.

A miraculous comeback from death?

No, according to Internet users, it would rather be proof of instrumentalization organized by the Ukrainians to win over public opinion.

But the manipulation is not where you might think.

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A quick reverse search of the image on Google brings up numerous posts about this video.

It has been used several times on different themes, the journalist's words often being hidden or rendered inaudible by comments.

It has, for example, been used in the context of disinformation against Covid-19.

We could then see, on this same video, a banner explaining that the “inanimate” bodies were victims of the virus.

She had thus caused a stir in the community of anti-vaccines, and conspirators about Coronavirus.

This video had already been spotted by our colleagues at AFP.

In reality, this video has nothing to do with the conflict in Ukraine, nor with the Covid-19.

This is a report from the Austrian channel Oe24, broadcast on February 4, 2022, almost 20 days before the start of the invasion of Ukraine by troops from Moscow.

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The people visible in the background are demonstrators, in Vienna, who were then warning about the climate crisis.

The original banner bears witness to this: “Wien, Demo gegen Klimapolitik.

(Vienna, demonstration against climate policy in VF).

An extract from the video, often cut in the "Ukrainian-Russian" versions, shows demonstrators holding banners which attest to the subject of this event, as well as Twitter accounts which have published photos from different angles of the demonstration.

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This new intox shows how certain images can be easily taken over to create false information on different subjects by simply making a few modifications, here changing the banner, cutting out a few extracts and erasing the journalist's words.

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