Acceptance –
Viral video on social media showing helicopter Black Hawk fly on Afghanistan. It looks like someone is hanging from a rope under the helicopter. Hoax had emerged from the viral video.
The video was viewed more than 2 million times. The narrative that had surfaced, Black Hawk with the man hanging under him was a death execution scene by Taliban against someone.
CNN traced that the video was originally posted by a pro-Taliban Twitter account called the Talib Times — now suspended by Twitter — on Monday morning (30/8) morning. The account claims to be the ‘official English-language channel for the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’.
The video was posted with the narration reading: “Our Air Force! At this time, Islamic Emirates Air Force helicopters are flying over the city of Kandahar and patrolling over the city.”
Then an account with the profile name @Holbornloz who calls himself a ‘comedian’ was found to have reposted the video while inaccurately adding a comment that read: “The Taliban hanged someone from a helicopter in Kandahar.”
It is known that a number of Republican politicians in the US, including Senator Ted Cruz and lawmaker Dan Crenshaw of Texas, had retweeted false claims that the Taliban had just executed a man by hanging him from a Black Hawk helicopter.
It turns out that such a narrative is a hoax. When he realized there was a hoax related to the video, Senator Cruz immediately deleted his tweet on Tuesday (31/8) afternoon local time. He admitted in one of his tweets that claims about the Taliban hanging a man from a helicopter ‘may not be accurate’.
Next up, the real story:
If this is what it looks like… the Taliban hanging somebody from an American Blackhawk… I could vomit. Joe Biden is responsible.
— Liz Wheeler (@Liz_Wheeler) August 30, 2021
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You report it’s a hoax, but don’t provide the real story. If you don’t know the real story, then how can you disniss this as a hoax?
Go over there and get the real story; you claim you’re the news.