{"id":70014,"date":"2020-06-27T18:32:22","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T13:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=70014"},"modified":"2020-06-27T18:32:22","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T13:02:22","slug":"old-video-viral-as-coronavirus-infected-dead-bodies-dumped-in-sea-in-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/old-video-viral-as-coronavirus-infected-dead-bodies-dumped-in-sea-in-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"Old video viral as coronavirus-infected dead bodies dumped in sea in Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 20-second video is being widely circulated on WhatsApp with the claim that it shows coronavirus-infected dead bodies dumped in a sea in Mexico with the help of choppers. The video was also posted by Arabic-speaking social media users with the same claim on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IraqiForati\/status\/1275297986982141953\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/79TVR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">archive link<\/a>) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=287175065812683\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/67eVa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">archive link<\/a>).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"rtl\" lang=\"ar\">\u0627\u0644\u0645\u0643\u0633\u064a\u0643 \ud83d\udc47\ud83d\udc47\ud83d\udc47<br \/>\n\u0631\u0645\u064a \u062c\u062b\u062b \u0645\u0648\u062a\u0649 \u0627\u0644\u0625\u0635\u0627\u0628\u0627\u062a \u0628\u0641\u0627\u064a\u0631\u0648\u0633 \u0643\u0648\u0631\u0648\u0646\u0627 \u0641\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0628\u062d\u0631\ud83e\udd14\ud83d\ude25<br \/>\n\u0627\u0644\u0645\u0635\u062f\u0631 : \u0631\u0648\u0633\u064a\u0627 \u0627\u0644\u064a\u0648\u0645 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JYmhYKqVEa\">pic.twitter.com\/JYmhYKqVEa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0631\u0627\u0642\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0641\u0631\u0627\u062a\u064a (@IraqiForati) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IraqiForati\/status\/1275297986982141953?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 23, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Facebook post in question was shared over 34,000 times and viewed over 2.4 million times.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-70050 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/06\/Screenshot-2020-06-27-at-17.31.40-e1593261411225.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1041\" height=\"733\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/06\/Screenshot-2020-06-27-at-17.31.40-e1593261411225.png 1041w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/06\/Screenshot-2020-06-27-at-17.31.40-e1593261411225-300x211.png 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/06\/Screenshot-2020-06-27-at-17.31.40-e1593261411225-1024x721.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/06\/Screenshot-2020-06-27-at-17.31.40-e1593261411225-768x541.png 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/06\/Screenshot-2020-06-27-at-17.31.40-e1593261411225-990x697.png 990w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1041px) 100vw, 1041px\" \/><br \/>\nAlt News has received multiple requests to verify the video on WhatsApp (+917600011160) and on our <a title=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.altnews\" href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.altnews\" data-from-md=\"\">official Android application<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-70036 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/06\/architttt.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"737\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/06\/architttt.png 737w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/06\/architttt-300x206.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 737px) 100vw, 737px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Fact-check<\/h4>\n<p>Upon performing a reverse image search on Yandex, we found that the video was uploaded on video-sharing platform <a href=\"https:\/\/coub.com\/view\/1c0kqc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Coub<\/a> along with Russian text in 2018. We also found a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VladZinen\/status\/1025660196218183680?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweet<\/a> by a Russian Twitter user who posted the video in 2018 with the text, &#8220;The release of paratroopers &#8211; athletes with the Mi-26.&#8221; [Translated from <span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">\u0412\u044b\u0431\u0440\u043e\u0441\u043a\u0430 \u043f\u0430\u0440\u0430\u0448\u044e\u0442\u0438\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0432 &#8211; \u0441\u043f\u043e\u0440\u0442\u0441\u043c\u0435\u043d\u043e\u0432 \u0441 \u041c\u0438-26.<\/span>]<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"ru\" dir=\"ltr\">\u0412\u044b\u0431\u0440\u043e\u0441\u043a\u0430 \u043f\u0430\u0440\u0430\u0448\u044e\u0442\u0438\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0432 &#8211; \u0441\u043f\u043e\u0440\u0442\u0441\u043c\u0435\u043d\u043e\u0432 \u0441 \u041c\u0438-26 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XS1FUMbkcE\">pic.twitter.com\/XS1FUMbkcE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \u0412\u043b\u0430\u0434\u0438\u043c\u0438\u0440 \u0417. (@VladZinen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VladZinen\/status\/1025660196218183680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 4, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Using this as a clue, Alt News performed a keyword search on YouTube and found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=mi+26+paratroopers+\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">several videos<\/a> that show paratroopers jumping from MI26 helicopter. One of them, uploaded in 2018, was identical to the viral video.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RlVd9ZXKT40&#038;feature=emb_title<\/p>\n<p>While Alt News was unable to unearth more details, the fact that the video is at least two years old proves that it is unrelated to COVID-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 20-second video is being widely circulated on WhatsApp with the claim that it shows coronavirus-infected dead bodies dumped in a sea in Mexico with the help of choppers. The video was also posted by Arabic-speaking social media users with the same claim on Twitter (archive link) and Facebook (archive link). \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0643\u0633\u064a\u0643 \ud83d\udc47\ud83d\udc47\ud83d\udc47 \u0631\u0645\u064a \u062c\u062b\u062b [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":70051,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"an_content_type":[739],"coauthors":[682],"class_list":["post-70014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","fact_checks_claim_type-viral-videos","an_content_type-fact-check"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/06\/SkyDive_russia2.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70014"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70067,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70014\/revisions\/70067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70014"},{"taxonomy":"an_content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/an_content_type?post=70014"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=70014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}