{"id":123213,"date":"2022-07-22T14:36:39","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T09:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=123213"},"modified":"2022-07-22T14:36:39","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T09:06:39","slug":"media-channels-aired-old-video-of-landsliide-as-maharashtra-nashik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/media-channels-aired-old-video-of-landsliide-as-maharashtra-nashik\/","title":{"rendered":"Media channels air an old clip of a landslide as recent visuals from Nashik"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On July 13, media outlets <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/nashik\/heavy-rain-cuts-road-link-from-nashik-dist-to-gujarat\/articleshow\/92838272.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> a landslide occurrence near Gujarat&#8217;s Saputara region. As per the reports the landslide occurred on July 11 and disrupted the road connectivity to the remote areas of the district for eight to twenty-four hours. The calamity also affected the roadways from Gujarat to Maharashtra&#8217;s Nashik. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Against the backdrop of this news, a video of a drastic landslide has been aired on multiple news channels. As per these reports, the video in question shows a landslide in Nashik.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The video was aired on <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/9aDd1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">TV9 Bharatvarsh&#8217;s<\/span><\/a> on July 12 as visuals from Nashik.<\/p>\n<p>[vimeo 730960475 w=640 h=360]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/KheK0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Zee24 Taas<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/dlhgN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">InKhabar<\/a> also followed suit and amplified the footage.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[vimeo 730960328 w=640 h=360]<\/p>\n<p>[vimeo 731017295 w=640 h=352]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In addition, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mpkesari\/videos\/504345478156891\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Punjab Kesari Madhya Pradesh\/Chattisgarh<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> shared the visuals on Facebook as scenes from the landslide in Nashik. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/iAlNm\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ETV Bharat<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> wrote an article covering the incident. The media channel also posted the clip on its <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ETVBharatMaharashtra\/posts\/2382217478596718\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> page.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-123213 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/media-channels-aired-old-video-of-landsliide-as-maharashtra-nashik\/3-98\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1415\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/07\/3-2.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/07\/3-2.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/07\/3-2-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/07\/3-2-782x1024.jpg 782w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/07\/3-2-768x1006.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/media-channels-aired-old-video-of-landsliide-as-maharashtra-nashik\/1-125\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/07\/1-2.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/07\/1-2.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/07\/1-2-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/07\/1-2-805x1024.jpg 805w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/07\/1-2-768x977.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/media-channels-aired-old-video-of-landsliide-as-maharashtra-nashik\/2-113\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1397\" height=\"1666\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/07\/2-2.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/07\/2-2.jpg 1397w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/07\/2-2-252x300.jpg 252w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/07\/2-2-859x1024.jpg 859w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/07\/2-2-768x916.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/07\/2-2-1288x1536.jpg 1288w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1397px) 100vw, 1397px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<h4><b>Video verification<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Alt News performed a keyword search on Twitter. This led us to a tweet by ANI on July 11 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/Wcrz9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">related to the landslide in Saputara<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Next, we performed a reverse image search using frames from the viral video. This led us to a tweet from June 20 posted <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">by one <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/ktE4V\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Devodatta<\/a><\/span>. The video in this tweet is identical to the one aired by news channels. <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As per the user, the video shows a landslide that occurred on the route from Silchar to Mizoram. This confirms that the viral footage is old and is not related to the recent calamity in Saputara.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Silchar to Mizoram route land slide <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xIDjdFwl9u\">pic.twitter.com\/xIDjdFwl9u<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Devodatta \u00a9 (@Hamainsanghihu) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Hamainsanghihu\/status\/1538899717794500608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 20, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1230202607790023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Hans India<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> had also shared the same video on Facebook on June 24 as footage of a landslide on the Silchar-Mizoram highway.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-123215 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/07\/hans-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/07\/hans-1.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/07\/hans-1-263x300.jpg 263w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/07\/hans-1-898x1024.jpg 898w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/07\/hans-1-768x875.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We performed another search on YouTube and found the same video uploaded by many users <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/sqVGP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">as the Mizoram-Silchar Highway<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Contradicting the claims made on YouTube, Assam-based news portal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sangbadprahari\/videos\/5177650568981546\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sangbad Prahari<\/a> posted this clip on their Facebook page on June 21 and said the incident took place in Meghalaya.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Alt News cannot confirm the location of the landslide. However, it is safe to conclude that the clip viral as visuals from the<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/Wcrz9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 11<\/a> landslide in Saputara is actually an old video and was available in the public domain much before the incident took place.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To sum it up, several media channels aired an unverified clip from June and claimed that it is related to the landslide that occurred in Nashik in July.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 13, media outlets reported a landslide occurrence near Gujarat&#8217;s Saputara region. As per the reports the landslide occurred on July 11 and disrupted the road connectivity to the remote areas of the district for eight to twenty-four hours. The calamity also affected the roadways from Gujarat to Maharashtra&#8217;s Nashik. 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