Fake video clips incorrectly connected to Turkey quake– DW– 04/24/2025

Istanbul, Turkey’s Largest City, what struck by a Strong Earthquake onWednesday Over 150 People Were Injured When They Jumped Or Attempted to Jump from Buildings, Istanbul’s Governor Davut Gul Said, Adding That “Their Injuries Were not Life-Threating” and Nobody Had Died in The Quake.

Following Events Like This, Images and Videos Begin to Circulate On Social Media – Content Creators are Eager to Gain Views and Increase Their Number ofFollower However, a study Shows that false information throughout and after all-natural calamities ofen brings about worry and obers reliable catastrophe administration.

DW’s Research Shows That Many Videos Circulating Online Following The Earthquake in Turkey Do Not Depict theRecent Event Here are 3 instances.

AI produced photos distributing

Claim: This viral Tiktok video Shows a Torn- up Street, Destroyed Building and aCollapsed Bridge The message in the Video Reads “Turkey 6.2,” While the Caption States, “Large Earthquake Hits Off The Coast of Turkey.” This Suggests The Video Is Related To The Latest Earthquake On April 23.

DW Fact Check: Fake

This video clip is ai-generated, Evident When Looking Closely atSeveral Details For circumstances, at the starting of the video clip, on the Left-Hand Side, the Top of a Streetlamp Appears and Then Disappears, While the People at the Bottom of the Video Do Not Move atAll Seconds Later, A Man On The Left, Purportedly Standing in Front of A Collapsed Building, Can Be Sen with Blurry Vanishes and afterwards Rappears.

Additionally, the developer noted the video clip as Being Ai-Generated, which numerousViewers Overlooked Comments search as “is it real?,” “Pray for Turkey,” and “Stay Strong Turkey” Suggest That Users Believe the Footage to be genuine.

In Breaking News Situations, Search as Natural Disasters, It’s Common for Ai Generated Videos toAlmost Immediately Begin Circulating Online DW’s Fact-Checking Team Observed Similar Patterns After The Earthquake in Myanmar and Thailand Earlier This Year.

Old Earthquake video clips Rappear

Claim: This video allegedly shows The Dramatic Collapse of a Tall Building in Istanbul, with many individualsPeople Running Away The Caption Says It Depicts The Earthquake in Istanbul, and the Video Was Posted on April 23. Less Than 24 Hours After The Quake, It had actually gathered over 5 million sights.

DW Fact Check: False

More than 3,000 People Commented on the Video, with numerous Believing It Depicts The Latest Earthquake inIstanbul However, that is not the situation. A Reverse Image Search reveals that the video clip goes back toFebruary 6, 2023 Back after that, A Magnitude 7.8 Earthquake Struck Turkey andSyria The epicenter What near to theSyrian Border More than 56,000 People Were Killed and Hundreds ofThousands Displaced
In the 2023 disaster Many structures fell apart to dirt, Raising Concerns About Construction Safety requirements.

Real Earthquake Ruins, however an old picture

Claim: “My Deepest Condolences to the People of Turkey After the Devastation Earthquake in Istanbul. I Stand with all Those Affected by this Tragedy. Singing Thoughts and Prayers to the Families Who Lost Loved Ones And To Everyone Impacted, Turkey,” A user posted on xSharing A Bird’s-Eye View Photo What Shows Many Collapsed Buildings

DW Fact Check: False

A Reverse image Search Confirms that the picture is not associated with the current Earthquake inIstanbul Instead, it goes back to the deadthquake in Turkey and Syria in February 2023. The Earliest Found Search Result Traces the picture to February 6, 2023. It programs Destroyed Building in Hatay, a Southern Turkish Bordering Syria.

Following the Earthquake in Turkey, Misleading, Fake and Outdated Content Has spread swiftly online. With continuous aftershocks in Istanbul, Further False Claims and Images are most likely to surface area.

Claudia Dehn Contributed to this write-up.

Edited by: Tetyana Klug