Social media has been awash with false data following the information of an accident involving a helicopter carrying President Ebrahim Raisi.
A video of a helicopter crashing in a mountainous space, seen 1.6m occasions, claims to point out President Raisi’s helicopter in Iran’s East Azarbaijan province.
However BBC Confirm has confirmed that the video dates again to July 2022, showing a border police rescue helicopter crashing in Gudauri, Georgia.
A picture, seen practically 100,000 occasions, falsely claims to point out wreckage of the helicopter carrying Raisi.
However the picture appeared in a 2019 report about a helicopter crash in Morocco.
An unfounded hearsay that claims Iran’s state TV has suspended its normal programming to announce Raisi’s loss of life has additionally been broadly shared.
Nonetheless, state TV has not suspended its protection, and continues to air updates on the continuing search and rescue efforts to find the helicopter.
A deleted tweet by Iran’s Fars information company, carefully affiliated to the Revolutionary Guards Corps, shared a picture of Raisi close to a helicopter, claiming his helicopter had safely landed.
Nonetheless, the picture of Raisi was captured throughout rescue efforts after nationwide floods in July 2022, and the destiny of the helicopter and people on board stays unknown.
