Greater than ten days after two catastrophic earthquakes struck Turkey and Syria, there may be nonetheless lots of disinformation circulating on social media in regards to the pure catastrophe.
The most recent instance: a tweet by the Chinese language embassy in France printed this week. The now-deleted publish confirmed a video of a bridge in Turkey that the Chinese language authorities claimed to have constructed.
The embassy went so far as to say the construction resisted the highly effective earthquake because of their know-how and the hashtag #ChinaTech was clearly a approach to boast about Chinese language innovation within the area.
Later, an article was printed by a Chinese language authorities web site claiming the Çanakkale Bridge remained intact after the earthquakes, and was in-built partnership with the Chinese language firm Sichuan Lu Qiao.
Did China actually construct the bridge?
The bridge does exist and is positioned within the Western a part of Turkey, neighbouring Greece and Bulgaria. It is also the longest suspension bridge on the earth.
The Dice searched a global database which collects details about completely different buildings all over the world and discovered that no Chinese language firm was majorly concerned in its development.
The design was spearheaded by Tekfen Insaat Ve Tesisat A.S., a Turkish firm and the detailed design was taken care of by an organization based mostly in Denmark referred to as COWI AS.
In accordance with the bridge’s official web site, 4 different corporations invested within the development of the bridge: two are Turkish and the opposite two are South Korean.
A bridge positioned... 1,000 kilometres away from the epicentre
However the second a part of the tweet that doesn’t try is the truth that the bridge is greater than 1,000 km away from the epicentre of the earthquakes which hit near this metropolis of Gaziantep within the east.
A map of the aftershocks reveals clearly that the bridge is simply too far-off to have been impacted in any means by the earthquake.
After receiving an enormous wave of criticism each from social media customers in addition to the French media, the Chinese language embassy deleted the online article in addition to the tweet.
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