{"id":35336,"date":"2019-05-03T16:09:34","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T10:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=35336"},"modified":"2019-05-03T16:09:34","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T10:39:34","slug":"cyclone-fani-old-video-of-a-ship-caught-in-a-storm-shared-as-impact-of-cyclone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/cyclone-fani-old-video-of-a-ship-caught-in-a-storm-shared-as-impact-of-cyclone\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyclone Fani: Old video of a ship caught in a storm shared as impact of cyclone"},"content":{"rendered":"

A video of a ship battling a storm in the sea is being circulated with the claim that it represents ongoing Cyclone Fani, which has recently hit Odisha, causing major destruction in the coastal areas. One Facebook user who goes by the name of Abhijit has captioned<\/a> this video, “Cyclone Fani continues to strengthen as it tracks over the Bay of Bengal”<\/em>. It has been shared close to 2,700 times and viewed over 57,000 times.<\/p>\n

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Cyclone Fani continues to strengthen as it tracks over the Bay of Bengal….<\/p>\n

Posted by Abhijit Das Roy<\/a> on Thursday, 2 May 2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

Few more individual users<\/a> along with a Facebook page, Bong Savage<\/em><\/a>, have shared the video with a similar text.<\/p>\n

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Old video<\/h2>\n

Using Invid, an image and video verification tool, Alt News found that the video of the ship caught up in the middle of a storm is at least two-years-old. We found an extended version of the same video uploaded, on Odnoklassniki<\/a><\/em>, a Russian social media site, on November 17. 2016. The caption attached with the video reads, “Storm 12 points on the Beaufort scale (-Google translated)”.\u00a0<\/em>Moreover, Alt News found that the same video was uploaded on YouTube at least since December 2016. Suffice to Say, the video cannot be representative of a present event.
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