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Old aerial photos falsely linked to Thai floods in August 2024

Old aerial photos falsely linked to Thai floods in August 2024

By Grazia British

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As devastating floods hit Thailand in August 2024, old photos made the rounds in Facebook posts that misleadingly linked them to the disaster. While one of the pictures genuinely showed buildings inundated after an embankment collapsed in the Thai province of Sukhothai, other images in the posts were taken in 2011 and 2023.

"There was flooding in Myanmar and now in Thailand," read a Burmese-language Facebook post that shared the photos on August 28, 2024.

"28.8.2024 Thailand's Sukhothai dam burst caused heavy flooding and a red-level warning has been issued. Be safe."

The post, shared on a Facebook page with 35,000 followers, shows three photos of towns inundated with floodwater.

<span>Screenshot of misleading Facebook post taken on September 9, 2024</span><span>Screenshot of a photo on DRAT's Facebook page</span><span>Screenshot comparison of the photo shared in a misleading Facebook post (left) and in the Bangkok Post's report (right)</span><span>Screenshot comparison of the photo in a misleading Facebook post (left) and in MGR Online's report (right):</span>

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