{"id":89990,"date":"2021-04-09T14:17:28","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T08:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=89990"},"modified":"2021-04-09T14:17:28","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T08:47:28","slug":"filming-of-russian-music-video-viral-with-hoax-claim-that-covid-is-a-conspiracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/filming-of-russian-music-video-viral-with-hoax-claim-that-covid-is-a-conspiracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Filming of Russian music video viral with hoax claim that COVID is a conspiracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As COVID cases surge in several countries, social media users have shared a 10-second TikTok clip that shows a man inside a body bag, placed on a truck filled with more body bags, smoking a cigarette. &#8220;Before beginning the drama of COVID deaths in the media, a dead body smokes a cigarette,&#8221; says the viral message adding that the coronavirus pandemic is a conspiracy hatched by the Jews and Eurasians.<\/p>\n<p>(Translated from: \u0915\u094b\u0930\u094b\u0928\u093e \u0935\u093e\u092f\u0930\u0938 \u0915\u0940 \u0924\u092c\u093e\u0939\u0940 \u0932\u093e\u0936\u094b\u0902 \u0915\u094b \u0920\u093f\u0915\u093e\u0928\u0947 \u0932\u0917\u093e\u0928\u0947 \u0914\u0930 \u092e\u093f\u0921\u093f\u092f\u093e \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u092a\u0948\u0936 \u0915\u0930\u0928\u0947 \u0915\u093e \u0921\u094d\u0930\u093e\u092e\u093e \u0936\u0941\u0930\u0942 \u0915\u0930\u0928\u0947 \u0938\u0947 \u092a\u0939\u0932\u0947 \u090f\u0915 \u0932\u093e\u0936 \u0938\u093f\u0917\u0930\u0947\u091f \u092a\u0940\u0924\u0947 \u0939\u0941\u090f ! \u092f\u093e\u0926 \u0930\u0916\u0928\u093e \u0915\u094b\u0930\u094b\u0928\u093e \u092f\u0939\u0941\u0926\u0940 \u0914\u0930 \u092f\u0941\u0930\u0947\u0936\u093f\u092f\u0928 \u0932\u094b\u0917\u094b \u0915\u0940 \u090f\u0915 \u092c\u0939\u094b\u0924 \u092c\u0921\u093c\u0940 \u0935\u0948\u0936\u094d\u0935\u093f\u0915 \u0938\u093e\u091c\u093f\u0936 \u0939\u0948 !)<\/p>\n<p>Twitter user @FalahiMuhammed posted the video, garnering over 2,500 views. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BE%20%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%B8%20%E0%A4%8F%E0%A4%95%20%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B6%20%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%9F%20&amp;src=typed_query&amp;f=live\">Several Twitter users<\/a> have made similar posts.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"hi\">\u0932\u093e\u0936\u094b\u0902 \u0915\u094b \u0920\u093f\u0915\u093e\u0928\u0947 \u0932\u0917\u093e\u0928\u0947 \u0913\u0930 \u092e\u0940\u0921\u093f\u092f\u093e \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u092a\u0947\u0936 \u0915\u0930\u0928\u0947 \u0915\u093e \u0921\u094d\u0930\u093e\u092e\u093e \u0936\u0941\u0930\u0942 \u0915\u0930\u0928\u0947 \u0938\u0947 \u092a\u0939\u0932\u0947 \u090f\u0915 \u0932\u093e\u0936 \u0938\u093f\u0917\u0930\u0947\u091f \u092a\u0940\u0924\u0947 \u0939\u0941\u090f \ud83d\ude02\ud83d\udc47\ud83c\udffb <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kLkSFpjqDg\">pic.twitter.com\/kLkSFpjqDg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Muhammed Falahi (@FalahiMuhammed) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FalahiMuhammed\/status\/1379479175770214415?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 6, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Several <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/search\/videos\/?q=%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BE%20%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%B8%20%E0%A4%8F%E0%A4%95%20%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B6%20%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%9F%20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook users<\/a> also posted this video including Firoz Malek who shared it on a pro-Congress group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/150899088782537\/permalink\/1003977756807995\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(I m back Congress&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;group)<\/a> with over 90,000 members.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-89990 gallery-columns-1 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\/filming-of-russian-music-video-viral-with-hoax-claim-that-covid-is-a-conspiracy\/screenshot-2021-04-09-at-11-00-25\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"526\" height=\"744\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/04\/Screenshot-2021-04-09-at-11.00.25.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/04\/Screenshot-2021-04-09-at-11.00.25.jpg 526w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/04\/Screenshot-2021-04-09-at-11.00.25-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><\/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\/filming-of-russian-music-video-viral-with-hoax-claim-that-covid-is-a-conspiracy\/screenshot-2021-04-09-at-10-59-44\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"545\" height=\"724\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/04\/Screenshot-2021-04-09-at-10.59.44.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/04\/Screenshot-2021-04-09-at-10.59.44.png 545w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/04\/Screenshot-2021-04-09-at-10.59.44-226x300.png 226w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>This video was first uploaded by Twitter user @denisdriver3. It has been retweeted over 11,000 times.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">They&#8217;re preparing dead Rona bodies for the news. One is still smoking a cigarette. \ud83d\ude05\ud83d\ude05\ud83d\udc4d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cDN9cmbC6q\">pic.twitter.com\/cDN9cmbC6q<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Denis driver (@denisdriver3) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/denisdriver3\/status\/1376901500828549123?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 30, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h4>Fact-check<\/h4>\n<p>While rummaging the replies to the viral tweet by @denisdriver3, we noticed @deGourlay wrote, &#8220;1500 RTs for a blatant lie using an old Russian Music video by rapper \u0425\u0430\u0441\u043a\u0438 [HUSKY]. There are a lot of gullible idiots on Twitter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">1500 RTs for a blatant lie using an old Russian Music video by rapper \u0425\u0430\u0441\u043a\u0438. There are a lot of gullible idiots on twitter.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Peter (@deGourlay) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/deGourlay\/status\/1376938438809772034?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 30, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We compared the viral video with the music video of the song &#8216;Never end&#8217; (\u041d\u0438\u043a\u043e\u0433\u0434\u0430-\u043d\u0438\u0431\u0443\u0434) by Russian rap artist Husky who is known for mocking the government and talking about police brutality in his songs. The similarities are given below.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Yellow: Identical wall<\/li>\n<li>Blue: Black bags<\/li>\n<li>Purple: Organe truck<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-89997 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/04\/In-story-chart-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/04\/In-story-chart-2.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/04\/In-story-chart-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/04\/In-story-chart-2-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/04\/In-story-chart-2-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/04\/In-story-chart-2-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The complete music video can be watched below. The part with the truck starts at around 2:15 minutes.\u00a0<strong>[Warning: The video is graphic and may be disturbing for some viewers.]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0425\u0430\u0441\u043a\u0438 \u2014 \u041d\u0438\u043a\u043e\u0433\u0434\u0430-\u043d\u0438\u0431\u0443\u0434\u044c\" width=\"1290\" height=\"968\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8sx-aG8e-8M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Last year in September Russia-based <a href=\"https:\/\/ren.tv\/news\/v-rossii\/744208-mertvye-liudi-moskvichei-napugali-svisaiushchie-s-kryshi-bolnitsy-trupy\">Ren TV<\/a> reported that the location where the scene was shot is Shchepkina Street in Moscow. Mikhail Marizov, the video producer, told RenTV that the body bags were filled with mannequins.<\/p>\n<p>The report added that this is not the first time Husky&#8217;s performance raised controversy. In 2018, similar props scared passers-by who called the police. That same year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/nov\/22\/russian-rapper-husky-faces-jail-over-gig-on-car-roof\">The Guardian<\/a> reported that Husky was sentenced to 12 days in jail on charges of hooliganism after he performed on top of a car.<\/p>\n<p>This was earlier fact-checked by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hoaxeye\/status\/1376955360922243075?s=19\">Hoax Eye<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/factcheck.afp.com\/video-does-not-show-covid-19-victims-it-shows-russian-music-video-being-filmed\">AFP<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A TikTik clip of Russian-rapper Husky&#8217;s music video being filmed has been circulating on social to claim that COVID is a conspiracy theory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As COVID cases surge in several countries, social media users have shared a 10-second TikTok clip that shows a man inside a body bag, placed on a truck filled with more body bags, smoking a cigarette. &#8220;Before beginning the drama of COVID deaths in the media, a dead body smokes a cigarette,&#8221; says the viral [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":89998,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"an_content_type":[739],"coauthors":[682],"class_list":["post-89990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","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\/2021\/04\/FI-3-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89990","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=89990"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90012,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89990\/revisions\/90012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89990"},{"taxonomy":"an_content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/an_content_type?post=89990"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=89990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}