Julian Rademeyer
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116 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2013
last heard Jan 2015
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And we set about trying to fact check that, trying to track down when this massacre had occurred, where it had occurred, given how much currency that image had gained on social media.
And we put the image through various online tools, Google Image Search, a couple of basic image comparison websites, and discovered that, in fact, it wasn't of a massacre.
And the image had actually been taken four years ago in July 2010, 2,000 kilometers away from Nigeria in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
What had happened was that a fuel tank had overturned.
Bystanders had rushed to collect fuel leaking out of the tanker, and the fuel ignited.
There were theories that someone was smoking a cigarette or lit a cigarette, and dozens of people were killed.
Many of them had gathered there to watch a World Cup soccer game.
And we set about comparing images, finding images of that particular catastrophe and comparing the details.
There was a distinctive roof in the background.
There were the uniforms of the soldiers, the Red Cross officials.
And we discovered subsequently that that image has been used in a number of other instances.
wants to supposedly represent the massacre of 500 Christians in Nigeria.
It's also been used in Myanmar to supposedly show the slaughter of Muslims by Buddhist monks.
And it's part of a growing problem where you have images stripped of context
used for propaganda purposes.
We've looked at a number of claims like that through the year.
One other example showed what was claimed to be a policeman stoning a gay man to death in Uganda.
Uganda has extremely homophobic policies in place.
That image spread like wildfire, but it had actually been taken in the Central African Republic, where soldiers had killed someone in the road and was taken by an Associated Press photographer.
It was indeed.
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