DUBAI Flood
Claim: Heavy Flood Occurred in Dubai on 28 October 2023
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A TikTok video widely shared on WhatsApp and originally posted by @disaster513 on TikTok, has recently gone viral claiming that Dubai has encountered a significant flood on October 28, 2023. The video tagged Dubai Flood 2023. The rich also cry. No Nation is Perfect” it garnered 71 likes, 11 comments, and 31 shares, with reactions expressing sympathy, such as “very painful” by @FaithK Rose.
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Verification
A simple search on Google found that the claim about the Dubai flood video was untrue, the viral video on TikTok and WhatsApp wasn’t even from Dubai or October 28, 2023. It was actually a computer-generated image (CGI) of the Burj Khalifa with an umbrella, created by UAE Forsan and posted on YouTube user, 10 months ago.
Users of TikTok and X (formerly Twitter) shared it, falsely claiming it was from New York City or Hong Kong. Further search using Google Reverse Search and Invid to verify the video’s origin and authenticity, shows that the video was manipulated using the standard JPEG library, which is commonly used by many devices and platforms.
It was found that the earliest version of the video was actually posted on TikTok on September 9, 2023, by a user named @user ERICSON1 with no comments.
The video was actually falsely claimed to be from New York City on X (formerly Twitter) by @L_O_R_N_A1984 on September 30, 2023, at 1:45 PM. It received quite a bit of attention with 9754 views, 20 comments, 73 retweets, 112 likes, and 2 bookmarks. Another TikTok post by drenarddgray, Israelite Business, claimed that it happened in Hong Kong on September 9, 2023.
Verdict:
Given the evidence available, the claim that a heavy flood occurred in Dubai, United Arab Emirates on 28 October 2023 is MISLEADING.
By Dare Akogun
