FULL CLAIM: “Dasani Water is actually really, really bad for you. There’s three ingredients that make it the absolutely worse water bottle ever. […] And the last one, potassium chloride. This is where they get you bad. Have you ever heard of death row? So on death row, they inject you with three different injections, and the last one they inject in you is potassium chloride. Potassium chloride actually causes cardiac arrest and it makes the heart stop working. And we’re drinking it in Dasani water”.
On 16 September 2022, a Facebook user shared a TikTok video that claimed that Dasani Water, a Coca-Cola Company product, is “the most dangerous water” because it contains potassium chloride. The 59-second video went on to claim that potassium chloride is injected into individuals on death row and that it “causes cardiac arrest and it makes the heart stop working.” The clip was shared more than 6,900 times and received nearly five thousand likes on Facebook. Similar claims were also made by other TikTok users (see here and here), including other TikTok videos containing the same clip (here). As we’ll show below, this claim is false.
The original TikTok clip was posted on TikTok on 26 May 2021 by the podcast group JustTheNobodys. The audio on that video was muted by TikTok, but the creators of the account reiterated their claims about Dasani water and how potassium chloride “is used to kill people” in a 28 June 2021 video uploaded to YouTube.
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