Venezuela earthquakes: old footage and AI fakes exploit disaster online
ONP Summary
A pair of devastating earthquakes struck Venezuela on June 28, claiming approximately 1,450 lives while injuring thousands and displacing over 12,000 residents from the La Guaira region. Nearly 800 buildings collapsed across affected areas, straining local capacity and prompting a major international rescue mobilization. Rescue teams continued to extract survivors from rubble, with the recovery of a father and son on Sunday after four days of entrapment providing a moment of hope amid the mounting humanitarian toll.
Progressive: Progressive-leaning outlets emphasized international humanitarian response and human resilience, framing the disaster through themes of hope, solidarity, and the arrival of aid supplies rather than assigning responsibility.
Moderate: Centrist outlets focused on factual reporting of casualty figures, displacement numbers, and rescue operations, contextualizing the crisis within Venezuela's pre-existing political and economic difficulties without emphasizing government blame or aid narratives.
Conservative: Conservative-leaning outlets accused the government of politicizing relief efforts and leveraging the disaster for political advantage, while highlighting dramatic rescue narratives as counterpoints to institutional failure.
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As rescue efforts continue in Venezuela after the twin earthquakes struck, social media has been flooded with misleading videos falsely claiming to show the devastation.
Viral clips have been recycled from disasters in other countries, old footage from Venezuela presented as current, and AI-generated videos posing as real.
Together, these tactics are driving widespread misinformation about the disaster, as the death toll climbs. ...