FILE - A war plane is shot down over the outskirts of Benghazi, eastern Libya, Saturday, March 19, 2011. On Friday, Feb. 25, 2022, The Associated Press reported that footage of the plane crashing in Libya in 2011 circulated online with false claims that it was captured during Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)
A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. Here are the facts:
Photos, videos claiming to show Russian invasion of Ukraine are miscaptioned
CLAIM: Videos show a Russian fighter jet plummeting to the ground after being shot down and fighter squads flying in unison over the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, while a photo of a plane in flames shows “the 6th Russian aircraft downed by Ukraine.”
THE FACTS: As Russia unleashed airstrikes and ground attacks across Ukraine on Thursday, social media users shared old and out-of-context videos falsely claiming they showed the invasion. Among them was a video of a plane plummeting from the sky and crashing in flames, falsely identified as a Russian fighter jet being shot down in Ukraine. The video, which is from The Associated Press, shows a warplane in Libya being shot down by rebels in March 2011. Also misrepresented was a video that featured multiple clips of jets flying in various formations across a cloudy daytime sky, with trees,...
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