Tokyo video doctored to add anti-Zelensky billboard

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❌ This image of a billboard in Japan saying 'Stop war' and 'Stop Zelenskyy' has been doctored. The sign featured people -- not the anti-Ukraine message -- in footage posted to YouTube in 2020

. It was posted to YouTube on October 18, 2020, more than a year before Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

Starting at approximately the 21:20 mark, the 2020 video shows the same cars, bikes, pedestrians, signs and movie posters that can be seen in the manipulated version now circulating online. Screenshot from Twitter, which is being rebranded as"X," taken August 1, 2023, with elements outlined by AFPScreenshot from Twitter, which is being rebranded as"X," taken August 1, 2023, with elements outlined by AFPThere are other indications that the footage predates the war, including the many pedestrians wearing masks outdoors amid the then-raging Covid-19 pandemic.

 

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