Tweet falsely claims to show cloud over Ohio train derailment

On Friday, Feb. 3, about 50 automobiles from a train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio. Some of these automobiles have been carrying hazardous materials, together with vinyl chloride. The poisonous chemical was launched from among the train automobiles and burned, leading to a big plume of smoke over the realm. 

One video with greater than 700,000 views was posted to Twitter on Feb. 13 and claims to show the scene from Ohio. The tweet posted on Feb. 13 says: “This is Ohio’s Chernobyl.”

Does the viral video posted on Feb. 13 show the sky in Ohio?

No, this viral cloud video isn’t from the Ohio train derailment. It was posted months earlier than the train derailment, and was taken in Oregon. 

Using InVid, a video forensics instrument, VERIFY analyzed the keyframes of the viral video and performed a reverse picture search of the frames.

VERIFY was ready to hint the video to the TikTok account @princess_cisneros, who posted the video on November 13, 2022 – practically three months earlier than the train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio. 

In a follow-up video, the TikToker confirmed the video is months previous and he or she stated she took the video from Jantzen Beach, north of Portland. 

In the video, she stated she took a video of the clouds as they rolled into the realm, and stated she didn’t make any edits to the video.

“It is not fake. It’s not an app that I edited. I didn’t do anything to it, it’s an old video. I had it up before and I ended up deleting all the videos from my TikTok and restarted, uploading other videos which were kind of the same,” she stated within the video.

VERIFY additionally confirmed the placement of the viral video utilizing Google Maps. The video was taken from Jantzen Beach. The similar constructing seen within the video will be seen in satellite tv for pc imagery. 

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