Use this tag for questions regarding whether a video is authentic or genuine.
Questions tagged [video]
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Is this colour footage of Breslau in 1939 authentic?
This 7 minutes footage on youtube purports to be from 1939 in Breslau, Germany (today Wrocław, Poland). In it we can see
The banks of the Oder/Odra
A random boy cycling in the streets
Some military guys hanging out "near the border"
A boy and his…
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Is this what "happiness looks like"?
This gif has been widely distributed on imgur/reddit/twitter/media and it is meant to represent
Molecules of the protein myosin drag a ball of endorphins along an active filament into the inner part of the brain's parietal cortex, which produces…
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Is this video of a fast-moving river of lava authentic?
In July 2020, Facebook page "Meteorologist Greg Pollak" posted a video (Facebook link):
WHOA! Check out how fast this river of lava was moving in Hawaii back in 2018 Note: This is not a time-lapse video
: Ken Boyer
The video is a river of lava…
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Can this dress change colour dynamically?
This news site features a video of a dress changing colours via an iPad app. The news site says:
Sydney designers Showpo posted a video to YouTube showing off their new ‘colour changing’ dress, and the woman modelling it nearly can’t control…
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CSI image resolution enhance: How real is it?
So I watched the following 1 minute long Youtube clip from CSI New York. In the clip, using what seems to be the recording from a standard bank camera, they zoom in at least 100, and see the image of the culprit in the reflection of the eye of the…
user3260
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Does this video portray Muslims being tortured?
Video shared from this source has the following caption.
هؤلاء مسلمو بورما يعذبون فقط لأنهم مسلمون ... من منكم يشعر بوجعهم ما عليه إلاّ محاولة نشر الفيديو على صفحات عالمية ربما تساعدهم ... و أدعوا لهم برطاجي جيم لصفحة Video Live
These Muslims of…
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Does this video of collapsing warehouse shelves show a real incident?
This video seems to show a minor bump by a fork lift causing multiple rows of shelving to collapse, burying the fork lift and operator.
Is this a real incident, or a faked video? The video has been posted on many news sites, but I can't find…
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Did Jean-Claude Van Damme do a suspended split between two trucks?
This Volvo Trucks ad shows actor and martial artist, Jean-Claude Van Damme, performing a suspended split between two moving trucks, driving in reverse.
I tend to think that what we see in the video is quite real, however impressive. But perhaps I'm…
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Was the "Worst Twerk Fail EVER - Girl Catches Fire!" video staged?
Caitlin Heller posted a video on Youtube titled "Worst Twerk Fail EVER - Girl Catches Fire!".
There have been many articles about it, e.g. Telegraph; NY Daily News; AJC.
Was it staged? I watched it over 10 times in a row nonstop, and I'm still not…
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Is this video showing an Apple engineer discussing the new MacBook (2015) authentic?
This seems to be a video going viral online and some people are claiming it is legitimate.
It depicts an Apple employee mocking Apple's new MacBook for not having any type-A USB ports (used for normal USB) and for having a weak CPU.
You can find it…
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Is the video of the Russian talent show archery tragedy faked?
This video has been around for a few years, but the first time I saw this I was shocked and disturbed.
Got talent goes horribly wrong archer [not safe for work]
I have looked online and have found competing information being claimed that the video…
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Biden 'fake' interview: video of Biden's hands appearing the wrong side of microphones
In the following video, US president Joe Biden is shown being interviewed in the open air. Reporters are holding microphones. In a couple of places the video shows Biden's hands appearing 'magically' in the foreground of the microphones when…
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Did the BBC fake scenes in Planet Earth 2 with composite shots and CGI?
This YouTube video with over 100,000 views makes the claim that the BBC faked the iguana-snake chase scene in its recent documentary, Planet Earth 2.
It makes the claim that the bundle of snakes was produced by CGI, and that real and fake videos…
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Is the video of Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis showing a middle finger fake?
On February 12 this year the organizers of the Subversive Festival 2013 in Zagreb, Croatia, uploaded a video to YouTube showing a speech of Yanis Varoufakis, who is now the Greek minister of finance. In the video he seems to show his middle…
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Did Lars Andersen perform the stunts in "A new level of archery"?
So lately i've discovered a Video which went incredibly viral (20 mil views in a week). It's an amateurish filmed video called "A new level of archery" about the Danish archer Lars Andersen.
Now I have to admit that the stunts look impressive and…
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