Others on Twitter were debunking the claims too, like Der Spiegel correspondent Georg Fahrion, who went to Tiananmen Square to see history being made: It’s an explosion in the neighbouring port city of Tianjin in 2015. Only, as disinformation expert E Rosalie pointed out, that footage was not in Beijing and not from this week.
There were pictures too, a massive fireball lighting up the Beijing sky, with the video again clocking hundreds of thousands of views. … I analyzed close to 2000+ accounts amplifying the hashtag #chinacoup … I figured out a bunch of accounts with significantly low followers that acted as the key disseminators of the rumor. As intelligence analyst Atandra Ray tweeted: YouTube, Cyrus Janssen, 27 September, 2022Īnd on Twitter the hashtag #chinacoup was going into overdrive. There were hundreds of videos on social media, with some attracting hundreds of thousands of views:ĬYRUS JANSSEN: Xi Jinping has supposedly been removed as the President of China in a military coup. But the internet was awash with claims and rumours. Overnights with Fred Mafrica, 6PR, 25 September, 2022ĭid China just have a military coup and is Xi Jinping missing? The reports have not been confirmed by … Chinese credible media, or been independently confirmed by India TV.īut before long the Australian media were taking note:įRED MAFRICA: Apparently it is stating that the army may have got a coup going over there, there's rumours of an army coup.
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That’s India TV last Saturday running with the earth shaking news of a coup in China, although immediately adding: But now to one of the world’s most powerful leaders and shocking news about his fate last week that you may have missed:Ĭhinese President Xi Jinping is currently under house arrest, several media reports claimed on Saturday, adding that the capital Beijing is currently under army control.
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