Warning: That viral factory fire video from last month was completely faked

I saw a clip of a massive warehouse fire in Detroit that supposedly happened on March 12th. People were sharing it like crazy saying it was a lithium battery plant going up. I dug into it and found the original video was actually from a 2019 chemical plant fire in China, just cropped and re-uploaded with a new date. The news channels here never even reported a fire on that day. Anyone else spot these recycled disaster clips floating around?

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matthew3712d agoMost Upvoted

Yeah @keith274 mentioned something about the lighting, that was spot on. I saw a breakdown too where a guy pointed out the shadows were all wrong for the time of day Detroit would've been filming - gave it away as old footage. These fakes are getting lazy.

wesleyflores2d ago

I watched a video from some fire safety expert breaking down how these recycled clips always have that weird low quality look or odd lighting that doesn't match the date. People just see fire and hit share without checking anything.

keith2742d ago

Did you catch that analysis too @wesleyflores, I read something similar about the lighting being off in those clips.