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☆ Fact Check-No evidence of RT article linking Prigozhin death to pilot myocarditis
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-28 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

There is no evidence that Russia Today (RT) published an article linking a plane crash, in which Russian mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin is presumed to have been killed, to the pilot having suffered from myocarditis caused by a COVID-19 vaccine. However, there is no evidence of such a headline published by RT. The screenshot is a fake and no such article was published on RT, a spokesperson for the Russian media outlet said in an email. Another article with the identical date and timestamp on the RT website reports on Prigozhin’s presumed death. Reuters found no evidence that Russia Today published the headline referring to Prigozhin plane’s pilot.

Persons: Yevgeny Prigozhin, Prigozhin’s, “ Wagner, Prigozhin, Read Organizations: RT, Mastodon, Reuters Locations: Russia, Russian

☆ Fact Check-Video shows Arma 3 game, not Russian and Ukrainian planes
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-28 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

A video of fighter jets shows a modified version of the Arma 3 video game, according to the game’s creator, not a Russian SU-57 shooting down NATO F-16 fighters in Ukraine, as claimed in online posts. Comments on the post suggest that some viewers recognize the video from the Arma 3 game, while others respond as though the footage shows real combat, including: “I didn’t know NATO was engaged in a fight . The company’s gameplay footage is often shared online by users as if it shows real altercations. At the end of 2022, Bohemia Interactive published a statement and video outlining how to detect Arma 3 video game footage shared online, including unnatural particle effects and poor resolution quality. The video shows modified video from the Arma 3 game.

Persons: ”, ” Pavel Krizka, Read Organizations: NATO, Fighters, Bohemia Interactive, Reuters Locations: Russian, Ukraine, NATO, Bohemia

☆ Fact Check-Video of helicopter igniting treetops doesn’t show French government arson
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-28 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

French officials said the area was vulnerable to fires due to “intense heat, dryness and tumultuous winds of up to 180 kilometers/hour,” Reuters reported. On Aug. 20, the Pyrenees-Orientales Fire Department wrote on X that the fire had been extinguished (here). !”The Arduini Helicopters Facebook page credits the video to an individual named Paul Buxton-Carr (here). Reuters Fact Check has previously addressed similar videos showing firefighters employing controlled or prescribed burning to curtail the spread of wildfires (here). The video shows a 2018 prescribed burn in Canada, not the intentional ignition of wildfires in France in 2023.

Persons: ”, Paul Buxton, Carr, Read Organizations: Facebook, ” Reuters, Fire, Arduini Helicopters, Reuters Locations: Canada, France, Pyrenees, Canada’s Alberta, British Columbia, Narcosli

☆ Fact Check-Tucker Carlson segment on Elon Musk Quantum AI is fake
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-28 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

A clip from a segment of Fox News’ former show, “Tucker Carlson Tonight”, which shows billionaire Elon Musk unveiling quantum AI software to eradicate poverty, is fake, a spokesperson for the news outlet said. The fabricated clip, posted on Facebook (here), has the “Tucker Carlson Tonight” branding on-screen and features the show’s namesake host. Carlson introduces Musk, who talks about a quantum AI project that he says could increase a person’s income “exponentially” and without active participation. An online search for the purported quantum AI project did not offer any information on the project (bit.ly/3QUVbsL). A video of Elon Musk announcing a quantum AI project on Tucker Carlson Tonight is fake, a spokesperson for Fox News has said.

Persons: “ Tucker Carlson, Elon, Tucker Carlson, Carlson, Musk, Jessica Ketner, ”, Elon Musk, Read Organizations: Fox News, Facebook, Fox, Reuters, Elon

☆ Fact Check-UK government job ad not proof of new pre-planned pandemic
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-28 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Are they planning another ‘pandemic’?” (here)But the UKHSA told Reuters that the advert’s wording was copied from another listing that was published ahead of the UK’s rollout of COVID vaccines in December 2020. “The copy in the February 2023 job advertisement is a legacy from the initial job ad some time ago before the COVID-19 vaccination programme had started,” the UKHSA spokesperson said via email. The 2023 job listing copied sections from an old advertisement that had not been updated since the rollout of COVID vaccines. This article was produced by the Reuters Fact Check team. Read more about our fact-checking work here.

Persons: Read Organizations: UK Health Security Agency, Vaccine, Twitter, Reuters Locations: British

☆ Fact Check-CNN clip on project putting EU citizens out of work is fake
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-28 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

All the European Union citizens no longer need to work. The video then goes on to show Musk apparently speaking to an audience about the project. On being shown the viral video, CNN spokesperson Emily Kuhn said in an email that “This is obviously fake and digitally altered” and that the video did not have the real voice of the anchor. The clip of Musk featured in the fake newscast was extracted from the 2023 Tesla’s annual shareholder meeting held in Austin, Texas, on May 16, 2023. The video CNN-branded segment is fake.

Persons: Elon Musk, Emily Kuhn, Kaitlan Collins, Collins, Cornel West’s, Musk, we're, Read Organizations: CNN, European Union, Facebook, Reuters Locations: Austin , Texas

☆ Fact Check-Optical illusion makes Dodgers Stadium appear flooded
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-25 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

The reflection of light on the wet parking lot of the Dodgers Stadium in Los Angeles caused an optical illusion that made the area appear flooded on Aug. 20 following heavy rains from tropical storm Hilary, tricking social media users. Hilary brought heavy rains to Los Angeles on Aug. 20, flooding streets and downing power lines ( here). However, there is no evidence the stadium parking lot was flooded by the rains. The Los Angeles Dodgers also shared photos of the stadium and parking lot the following day (here) on X, formerly known as Twitter, commenting, “It looks beautiful this morning.”Joe Jareck, a spokesperson for the LA Dodgers, said in an email that the stadium was not flooded. Videos and photos of Dodgers Stadium during storm Hilary on Aug. 20 made the wet parking lot appear to be flooded, but it was an optical illusion.

Persons: Hilary, Grigoras, ” Grigoras, ” Joe Jareck, Read Organizations: Dodgers, Los Angeles Dodgers, National Center for Media Forensics, University of Colorado, Reuters, Twitter, LA Dodgers, Fox Locations: Los Angeles, University of Colorado Denver, Local

☆ Fact Check-Video of crowd insulting Biden during Maui visit is altered
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-25 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

(Editor’s note: Article contains profanity in paragraph two)A video of U.S. President Joe Biden during his Aug. 21 visit to Maui, Hawaii, has been altered to include audio of a crowd yelling insults at him. In examples (here), (here), the clips show Biden and his wife Jill walking among ruins after the fires on Maui, while audio of chanting “fuck Joe Biden” is heard in the background. One of the earliest examples sharing the video is a parody account (here). Biden visited Maui after devastating wildfires killed more than 114 people in August 2023 (here). The video of Biden has been altered to include audio of a crowd yelling insults.

Persons: Joe Biden, Biden, Jill, Joe Biden ”, Read Organizations: YouTube, CBS News, Washington Post, Reuters Locations: Maui, Hawaii

☆ Fact Check-Altered photograph of Trump circulated as Fulton County mugshot
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-25 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

A fake mugshot of former U.S. President Donald Trump, based on a photograph from 2020, is altered to resemble official mugshots by the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office in Atlanta, Georgia, where Trump was booked on multiple felony charges on Aug. 24. The image was circulated on social media (here) shortly after the jail released the authentic mugshot on Thursday evening (here), (here). An altered version of the official mugshot, with the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office insignia missing, was also shared on X by Trump (here), who has returned to the platform after his account was banned following the Capitol Hill riots in January 2021 (here). This version of the real mugshot also features on Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign webpage alongside an appeal for donations (here). A 2020 photograph of former U.S. President Donald Trump has been edited and shared online as the authentic mugshot from Trump’s August 2023 arrest in Georgia.

Persons: Donald Trump, Trump, Carlos Barria, Read Organizations: Facebook, White, Office, Trump, Reuters Locations: Fulton, Atlanta , Georgia, Georgia, Trump’s

☆ Fact Check-Parody mugshot of Trump shared ahead of arrest at Fulton County Jail
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-25 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

A fabricated mugshot of former U.S. President Donald Trump complete with the emblem of the Fulton County Sherriff’s Office was shared as humor ahead of his surrender to Georgia state authorities on Aug. 24, 2023. “BREAKING: DONALD TRUMP’S MUGSHOT RELEASED,” read the caption of a viral Instagram post sharing the image (here) which was also posted on Facebook (here). The original image was credited to AFP and shows him speaking in the Oval Office of the White House in December 2017 (here), not at Fulton County jail in 2023. The fabricated image follows the same format of mugshots typically released by the Fulton County Sherriff’s Office, with the subject pictured in front of a gray background with Sherriff’s Office emblem on the top left (here). A 2017 photo of Trump was used to create a parody mugshot ahead of his arrest and processing at Fulton County jail in August 2023.

Persons: Donald Trump, DONALD TRUMP’S MUGSHOT, ”, Trump, Donald Trump's, Read Organizations: Sherriff’s, Facebook, AFP, White House, Reuters Locations: Fulton, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta

☆ Fact Check-Claim about US Marines attacking FEMA convoy stems from hoax website
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-25 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

A convoy carrying members of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) involved in response and recovery efforts amidst wildfires in Maui, Hawaii was not “neutralized” by a platoon of U.S. Marines, a spokesperson for FEMA has said. On its “About Us” page, Real Raw News states that the website contains “humor, parody, and satire” (archive.li/eJT7b). Yet, screenshots of the article on social media duped people into thinking it is real. Reuters Fact Check has previously addressed information published by the site that similarly duped people online (here), (here). A FEMA spokesperson said its members were not attacked by U.S. Marines in Hawaii in August 2023.

Persons: ”, Read Organizations: Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA, . Marines, Raw, Marine, Reserve, Raw News, Department of Defense, Reuters, U.S, Marines Locations: Maui, Hawaii, Lahaina

☆ Fact Check-High temperatures in the early 20th century don’t disprove climate warming
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

An inaccurate table of record-high temperatures in Europe circulating online shows that a handful of records set before 1950 still stand, but also that most records in specific cities were set after 2000. !” to imply that recent heat records set in Europe are not new. However, the post’s implication that record-high temperatures disprove climate warming is unsupported by further evidence. Temperatures for Europe as a whole show long-term warming trends with several countries having revised their all-time heat records over the past few years. Historical local heat records are not evidence for or against overall climate warming.

Persons: “, Belgium’s, Copernicus, Read Organizations: State, Reuters Locations: Europe, Cyprus, Spain, Italy, England, Ventspils, Daugavpils, Begijnendijk, Uccle, Slovenia, Netherlands

☆ Fact Check-Video shows 2022 floods in Venezuela, not Chile in August 2023
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

A widely-shared video of a car and a tree being washed away during floods was shot in Maracay, Venezuela in 2022 not – as many are wrongly saying online - in Santiago, Chile in 2023. Two people died and thousands have been evacuated or left homeless after rains caused flooding in central-southern Chile, Reuters reported on Aug. 21, 2023 (here). Examples of posts wrongly describing the 2022 Venezuela video as a scene from Chile can be seen on Facebook (here) and on messaging platform X, formerly known as Twitter (here) (here). A building with the words “Walio Supermercado” (ibb.co/qd4rkgV) can be seen in the background in a longer version of the clip (imgur.com/gallery/yNNfEyf). Video shows floods in Venezuela in October 2022, not Chile in August 2023.

Persons: Read Organizations: Reuters, Facebook Locations: Maracay, Venezuela, Santiago , Chile, Chile, Colombia, Venezuelan, El Castano

☆ Fact Check-Green lights in Hawaii sky came from satellite, predate 2023 fires
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

A night-time video showing streaks of green light in the sky over Hawaii predates the August 2023 wildfires in the U.S. state by several months. The lights were filmed by Japan’s Subaru-Asahi Star Camera in January 2023 and emanate from a Chinese weather satellite launched in April 2022. The 2023 wildfires in Maui, killed over a 100, making it the deadliest wildfire in the U.S. in more than a century, Reuters reported (here). Green lights captured over the night sky in Hawaii in January 2023 predate the August 2023 wildfires. Read more about our work to fact-check social media posts (here).

Persons: Japan’s, DEWs, Read Organizations: Japan’s Subaru, Asahi, “, Office, Reuters, Subaru, of Japan, YouTube, Asahi Shimbun Locations: Hawaii, U.S, Maui, Kea, NAOJ, Dqui

☆ Fact Check-Five statements examined after first GOP primary debate
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Fox News hosted the Republican Party’s first primary debate ahead of the 2024 presidential election, with party front-runner Donald Trump absent from Wednesday night’s lineup. Reuters Fact Check examined five statements made during the debate. The debt rose to about $27.8 trillion when he left office on Jan. 20, 2021, representing a $7.9 trillion increase (here). After fetal viability, abortion is allowed in all three states if the pregnant person’s life or health is threatened, according to state legislation. After 24 weeks, abortion is permitted in New York if the pregnant person’s mental health is at risk (here).

Persons: Republican Party’s, Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, Mike Pence, Vivek Ramaswamy, Nikki Haley, “ Donald Trump, ” – Nikki Haley, Tim Scott, Chris Christie, Hunter Biden, Biden Organizations: Fox News, Republican, United Nations, U.S . Environmental Protection Agency, New Jersey, Attorney’s, District of, Reuters, Florida Department of Law, Marshall Locations: U.S, America, South Carolina, California , New York, Illinois, California, New York, In Illinois, District, District of Delaware, Florida ”, Florida

☆ Fact Check-Video of plummeting fiery plane predates Prigozhin-linked crash
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-23 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

The Prigozhin-linked jet crashed Aug. 23 in an area north of Moscow and killed all 10 people on board, including the Wagner boss and the group’s commander Dmitry Utkin, according to Russian authorities. The Facebook and Twitter posts were written in English, while the TikTok posts were spotted in Ukrainian and Russian. But Reuters traced the video to June 24, 2023, when it was shared online in relation to a plane crash in Russia’s Voronezh region during the aborted Wagner mutiny (t.me/c/1732054517/20231, t.me/c/1732054517/20231 and here ). Russian media outlet Fontanka said the video captured the crash of an IL-22 near Kantemirovka (here). The video can be traced back to at least June 2023, thus predating the Aug. 23 crash.

Persons: Yevgeny Prigozhin, Wagner, Dmitry Utkin, uploaders, Fontanka, Read Organizations: Reuters, Facebook, Twitter, Telegram Locations: Moscow, Russia’s Voronezh, Russian, Kantemirovka

☆ Fact Check-Fox News did not report Newsom tried removing Trump from future ballots
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-23 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Fox News did not report that California Governor Gavin Newsom was removing Trump’s name from future ballots, contrary to a claim circulating on social media. Social media users have shared the following text: “BREAKING NEWS: FOX News reports Ca. Gavin Newsom is the first Governor to say Donald Trump is not eligible for future presidential elections & has asked the California’s State Assembly to pass a bill that will remove Trumps name on any future ballots.”Examples can be seen (here), (here), (here). A search through the governor’s official social media accounts also returned no results matching the claim (www.facebook.com/CAgovernor/), (www.instagram.com/gavinnewsom/), (twitter.com/GavinNewsom). Fox News did not report that Gavin Newsom was removing Trump’s name from future ballots.

Persons: Gavin Newsom, Donald Trump, Brandon Richards, Newsom, Read Organizations: Fox, Social, FOX, Gov, Assembly, Fox News, Reuters Locations: California, California’s

☆ Fact Check-Video of surfers and huge waves predates Storm Hilary
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-23 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Video showing surfers amid huge waves dates to at least May 2023 but has been falsely linked to Storm Hilary that hit Los Angeles, California on Aug. 20, 2023. Examples of the video, that shows surfers riding a massive wave, can also be seen on Facebook (here) and (here). The first clip (0:00-0:16) can be seen in the YouTube video from 7:36-7:52. The clip from 0:17-0:23 in the social media video can be seen from 2:13-2:19 in the YouTube video. Video of surfers alongside huge waves dates to at least May 2023.

Persons: Storm Hilary, Hurricane Hillary ”, Hilary, Read Organizations: Facebook, YouTube, Reuters Locations: Los Angeles , California, Newport Beach , California, Hurricane, Mexico's Baja California, Los Angeles

☆ Fact Check-Altered grave photos do not prove Ukraine is sending children to war
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-23 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Images of grave markers shared online have been altered to suggest the Ukrainian soldiers depicted in photographs on the graves were fighting when they were younger than 18. The originals indicate that the individuals named on the grave markers were 21 or older at the time of their deaths. Posts on messaging platform X, formerly known as Twitter, shared the altered pictures of three graves marked with photos and inscriptions and included the text: “The UA are already sending children to slaughter. Two of the images in the misleading posts have been digitally altered to replace the original pictures with photos of young boys. Dates in the original gravesite image indicate the individual was born in 1996 (tinyurl.com/2p93bt8j).

Persons: “, Read Organizations: Twitter, UA, Facebook, Ukraine’s, Military Duty, Military Service, Reuters Locations: Ukrainian

☆ Fact Check-Kyiv club did not hold fire show after deadly blaze in Makhachkala
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-23 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

The poster was also widely shared on Russia’s VKontakte social network (here), Telegram (t.me/pezdicide/3176), and was published by Russian media (here). The branding for Kyiv’s Forsage club can be seen in the upper left corner (here), though no such poster is on the Forsage club’s social media or website (here). Original posters of Forsage’s events that are shared on social media are strikingly different (here). In a statement on Instagram stories, Forsage said the fire show party poster was fake and was “aimed at inciting hostility” and provocation. Read more about our work to fact-check social media posts (here).

Persons: Forsage, ”, Read Organizations: Twitter, Facebook, Russian, Reuters, Kyiv’s Locations: Kyiv, Makhachkala, Russian, Dagestan, Kiev

☆ Fact Check-Clip does not show Biden asleep at Lahaina event
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-23 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

U.S. President Joe Biden can be seen blinking and nodding while listening to a speech at a community engagement event in Lahaina, Hawaii, contrary to social media video claims alongside a low-quality clip that he fell asleep. The version on social media zooms in on Biden and the woman sitting near him, but his eyes appear closed instead of looking down due to its low definition. Biden goes on to speak at the event about ten minutes later. Photos of his visit to Lahaina can be seen (here). Higher definition footage shows U.S. President Joe Biden did not fall asleep in a clip being shared online.

Persons: Joe Biden, “ Joe Biden, Biden, ” Biden, Read Organizations: Biden, Reuters Locations: Lahaina , Hawaii, Maui, ohana, Lahaina

☆ Fact Check-Video shows lights in Florida, not Maui amid fires
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-23 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

A video filmed at a Florida beach during a thunderstorm showing lights in the sky is being falsely shared as footage captured moments before the fire in Lahaina, in Hawaii’s Maui County, in August 2023. “Looks like a direct energy weapon to me,” reads a Facebook post sharing the video, which shows streaks of lights in the sky filmed from a shore (here). It was also shared on messaging platform X, formerly known as Twitter, with the caption “What’s that in the Maui sky... just before the ‘fire’ #MauiFire” (here). Reuters has fact-checked similar false claims that DEWs or other secret attacks are to blame for the wildfires (here), (here). Video filmed at Florida beach predates Lahaina, Maui, fire in August 2023.

Persons: ”, Carmen Rich, Read Organizations: Reuters, Office, Naval Research, Google, YouTube, Media, Dogtooth Media Locations: Florida, Lahaina, Hawaii’s Maui County, Fort Lauderdale, Hawaii, Maui

☆ Fact Check-Sleeping intern in office prank image mistaken for dead man
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-23 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

An image of co-workers surrounding their sleeping colleague, who is slumped in his chair with his eyes closed and mouth open, is being falsely claimed online to show a deceased man. The image, here, is being shared with a caption that suggests the sleeping man suffered a cardiac arrest and died, and his unwitting colleagues had gathered for a prank photo. And it just went downhill from there.”Paraschivescu also told Reuters via Facebook Messenger in January 2022 that he is the man in the picture and is very much alive. Gsoft posted the same photo on Facebook in February 2016 (here), joking in French in the caption: “And yes, it happened at GSOFT. The man was sleeping, not dead.

Persons: he’d, Eduard Paraschivescu, ” Paraschivescu, ”, Gsoft, Read Organizations: Gsoft, Huffington, Reuters, Facebook Locations: Montreal, Canada, GSOFT

☆ Fact Check-In wake of Maui fires, here’s why some trees survive damage
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-22 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

Some posts on social media in the wake of the fires on the Hawaiian island of Maui, however, suggested that the fact some trees had remained standing showed proof that the fires were somehow engineered or steered to intentionally burn homes and vehicles, leaving trees unscathed. Reuters photographs and satellite imagery of the Lahaina Banyan Court area produced by Maxar Technologies shows buildings, vehicles and trees damaged following the fires (shorturl.at/bpsTX), (here). Other trees were more heavily damaged, but remained standing, Reuters pictures show (here), (here). Regardless, the fact that some trees could remain standing or were less damaged than cars or buildings during a fire is not abnormal. Trees sometimes survive severe damage during fires due to factors including their water content and the ways a fire spreads.

Persons: Albert Simeoni, ”, Erica Fischer, Fischer, Christopher Baird, ” Baird, Katie Kamelamela, James Urban, Niamh Nic Daeid, Nic Daeid, Read Organizations: Reuters, Facebook, Maxar Technologies, Fire Protection Engineering Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Department of Wood Science, Engineering, Oregon State University, “, JB, University of Hawaii, West Texas, M University, Conservatory, Akaka Foundation, Tropical Forests, HOW, Fire Protection, Leverhulme Research, Forensic Science, University of Dundee Locations: Maui, Instagram, Lahaina Banyan, Oregon, Colorado, Manoa, Hawaii

☆ Fact Check-Lightning footage predates Tropical Storm Hilary
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-22 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

An altered clip of lightning and thunder shared in June has been recirculated by users online saying it shows footage of Tropical Storm Hilary in August. The posts include a video of bright strikes of lightning as seen from a car lot. However, the clip was shared since at least June 22, two months prior to Storm Hilary in August. The same clip can be seen on the user’s YouTube page in a June 22 video with an identical caption (here). The lightning footage has been shared since at least June and predates Storm Hilary.

Persons: Hilary, Storm Hilary, Tsarov, ”, Read Organizations: Reuters Locations: Baja California, U.S, Southern California

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