False Videos Spread Online After Disasters in Asia

Several fact-checking reports have identified videos circulating online that are falsely linked to recent disasters in Asia. AFP Fact Check found that a year-old flooding video was wrongly tied to the lingering impact of a typhoon in eastern China. Other clips from the Philippines and Taiwan were falsely connected to an Indonesian earthquake, and footage of a Venezuela earthquake was wrongly linked to an August 2026 tremor in Colombia. The reports also note that public mourning in China has faced censorship.