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Fake News Alert: What You Heard About the Indonesian Tsunami May Not Be True
Posted on: 10 Oct 2018
“This video is a HOAX,” Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, the national spokesman of the Indonesian disaster-management board, said on Twitter of an apocalyptic video clip featuring a cloud of volcanic ash chasing down fleeing residents. A deadly 7.5 magnitude earthquake hit Palu, Indonesia on September 28th. Since then, authorities in Indonesia have identified a number of social media hoaxes. These fake reports have been spreading further fear and frenzy among residents in the disaster zone. The footage Nugroho referred to, for example, has nothing to do with Indonesia’s ongoing disaster. It…
