Claim: Unrelated clips of troops from the Japanese Self-Defence Force and naval vessels have been viewed hundreds of thousands of times in social media posts that falsely claimed they show Japan deploying its forces in a chain of disputed islands with Russia in September 2024. One of the videos shows a parade that took place in 2019, while the rest were uploaded months before the falsely shared clip surfaced.
Fact-check: Old clips misrepresented as 'Japanese troops deployed to disputed Russian islands'
Verdict: old clips misrepresented as 'japanese troops deployed to disputed russian islands'
Organisation: AFP Fact Check
Author: Tommy Wang
Date published: 2024-10-07T10:35:00