DeTect: TV channel tweets 2017 video as flooding due to Nivar

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26 Nov 2020, 11:02 pm

Chennai

Tropical Cyclone Nivar made landfall near Puducherry in the early hours of November 26, bringing heavy downpour to the union territory and neighbouring Tamil Nadu. A TV news channel shared a video from their official Twitter handle claiming the flood waters breached the seashore at Marina beach. Alt News ran a fact check and found the channel had shared a three-year-old video of flooding in Chennai’s Marina beach as footage from the recent rains.

First published on www.altnews.in

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