“One video currently circulating on X, formerly Twitter, purports to show several high-rise buildings that toppled almost like building blocks in the wake of the Taiwan earthquake”
What Deutsche Welle found
The video of the toppling skyscrapers is not recent and comes from a context that is fortunately far less dramatic than it appears in these recent posts. The footage dates back to August 2021 and is of a controlled demolition of high-rise buildings in Kunming, the capital of the southern Chinese province of Yunnan.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 3 April 2024. Deutsche Welle (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 4 April 2024, 1 day later. Its rating was “False”.
Where the claim appeared
- Post on Xhttps://twitter.com/OG_Sumit_/status/1775460639747813832
- Post on Xhttps://twitter.com/06Vassi/status/1775471802107797712
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This check was done by Deutsche Welle, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.