A recent viral video claims to show Karachi during a cyclonic storm. But the scariest scenes are from disaster movies.
Two people died in India, CBS News
, and no deaths were reported in Pakistan. In fact, though Karachi had been forecast in the storm’s path, according to CBS, Pakistan’s largest city was"largely spared.""Current weather situation in Karachi," the June 16says. The footage in the post’s four-minute-plus video shows scenes of destruction, boats toppling in stormy seas, and surging tsunami waves.
This post was flagged as part of Meta’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. Smoke that covered New York, New Jersey and Connecticut after the Canadian wildfires “was a planned operation in geoengineering.”We did reverse-image searches of several scenes in the video, and none show Karachi during this recent storm.
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