On July 8 of this year, a video of a supposedly large tornado in the United States emerged. A natural event common on the other side of the Atlantic occurred, this time, in the city of Dallas. However, it is a fake post.
A viral post claims that a tornado occurred in Dallas. All shown by an Internet video. It’s false.
The first thing to note is that this is not a tornado that is the same at all times in the video. Or, at least, with the information available – which does not go beyond the video itself – it is not possible to say that we are facing a natural phenomenon in the city of Dallas. The author also does not share any credible website or international or North American news that would allow him to corroborate what he claims.
Using image identification platforms such as Google Images, it is possible to reach the following conclusion: this video has already appeared in other contexts, promoting the idea that it showed a tornado in other cities besides Dallas. In fact, there are countries such as Ghana that also appear mentioned on social networks such as Tik-Tok about this same natural event.
There is another element that contradicts the version presented in the content analyzed here. Some of the images that appear in this video can be found on image banks such as Shutterstock. The big difference is that in these images there is no tornado visible, that is, the video in question has been digitally altered.
Conclusion
It is not true that a tornado recently occurred in the city of Dallas in the United States. The same images that the author shared on Facebook can be consulted, without any confusion, on the image bank called Shutterstock. Similar videos have already appeared on social networks with the reference that the phenomenon occurred in other cities (or in other countries) besides Dallas.
Thus, according to Observer’s classification system, this content is:
MISTAKEN
In Facebook’s ranking system this content is:
FALSE: The main claims in the content are factually inaccurate. This option generally corresponds to “false” or “mostly false” ratings on fact-checking websites.
NOTE: This content was selected by Observador as part of a fact-checking partnership with Facebook.
Source: Observadora
