As rescue efforts continue in Venezuela after the twin earthquakes, social media has been flooded with misleading videos falsely claiming to show the devastation. Viral clips have been recycled from disasters in other countries, old footage from Venezuela presented as current and AI-generated videos put out as real. Together, these tactics are driving widespread misinformation about the disaster while the death toll climbs.
One widely shared video, viewed hundreds of thousands of times, appears to show a white apartment building collapsing, sending a huge cloud of dust and debris into the air as a bystander runs for safety. Social media users falsely claimed it showed a building brought down by the earthquakes in Venezuela.
