{"id":36445,"date":"2024-09-24T04:54:24","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T08:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/old-video-of-collapsing-house-in-china-falsely-linked-to-thai-floods\/24\/09\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-09-24T04:54:24","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T08:54:24","slug":"old-video-of-collapsing-house-in-china-falsely-linked-to-thai-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/old-video-of-collapsing-house-in-china-falsely-linked-to-thai-floods\/24\/09\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Old video of collapsing house in China falsely linked to Thai floods"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Social media users have shared an old video of a house in China collapsing in floodwater with a false claim that it was filmed during deadly floods that hit northern Thailand in September 2024. The video has previously circulated in Chinese reports published four years ago.<\/h3>\n

“I’m sorry for the loss. The house took a long time to build. I saw this and cried,” read a caption of a TikTok post<\/a> published on September 17, 2024 along with several hashtags, including #ChiangRaiFlood and #FloodsinNorthernThailand2024.<\/p>\n

The post shared a 14-second video of a house surrounded by floodwater collapsing.<\/p>\n

It has been viewed more than 520,000 times.<\/p>\n

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Screenshot of the false TikTok post, taken September 20, 2024<\/span><\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

The false claim circulated after northern Thailand was severely affected by flash floods as Typhoon Yagi<\/a> barrelled through Southeast Asia and left more than 500 people dead (archived link<\/a>).<\/p>\n

The kingdom’s northern provinces were hit hard, with one district reporting its worst inundations in 80 years.<\/p>\n

The video with the same false claim has been shared on\u00a0Facebook<\/a>, YouTube<\/a> and TikTok<\/a>.<\/p>\n

However, the video has circulated since July 2020 and shows a house destroyed by floods in eastern China.<\/p>\n

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Using a reverse image search on Google and Baidu, AFP traced the video to news reports and social media posts about flooding in China in July 2020.<\/p>\n

Record<\/a> flooding hit large swathes of central and eastern China at the time, and left more than 140 people dead or missing (archived link<\/a>).<\/p>\n

State-run China News Service (CNS) published the clip<\/a> in a report dated July 9, 2020 with a title that read: “A building in Poyang, Jiangxi destroyed in an instant by floods<\/span>” (archived link<\/a>).<\/p>\n

“Some 710mm of heavy rainfall in Poyang County, Shangrao City in Jiangxi Province in recent days has led to the collapse of a dike in Wengguidao,” the video’s caption read. “A large amount of flood water surged through and flooded five villages.”<\/p>\n

Below is a screenshot comparison between the false TikTok post (left) and the China News Service report (right):<\/p>\n

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Screenshot comparison between the false TikTok post (left) and the China News Service report on July 9, 2020 (right)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

Another Chinese online news outlet The Paper also published the same clip<\/a> on July 9, 2020 in a report about the floods (archived link<\/a>).<\/p>\n

“Three-storey building in Poyang Jiangxi destroyed in an instant by floodwater,” the report’s headline read. “Residents evacuated prior to the incident.”<\/p>\n

The same video<\/a> was also shared virally on Chinese video-sharing platform Bilibili in July 2020, where user comments linked the video to flooding in Poyang (archived link<\/a>).<\/p>\n

AFP has debunked misinformation related to the flood in northern Thailand\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Social media users have shared an old video of a house in China collapsing in floodwater with a false claim that it