How Twitter Accusations Led To MSNBC World War Z Protest Video Claims

World War Z was trending on Twitterearlier in the week and not due to the release of a sequel, but over accusations MSNBC used clips from the movie as protest footage. The video shared online resulted in many accusingMSNBC of intentionally faking the news. Here’s how the events unfolded and led to fake news claims.

The past week has seen multiple protests taking place in the United States over the untimely death of George Floyd. Following many of those protests, media outlets in different states had been reporting on issues of rioting, looting and violence and like most news outlets, MSNBC was one of the channels covering the events. However, last weekend a video was shared online, resulting in much controversy and eventually leading to World War Z trending on Twitter.

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The video in question was of MBCSN coverage of the looting and rioting in Philadelphia. While the narration was not any different to what was being broadcast elsewhere, the video accompanying the news piece showed the city from an aerial view and looked to highlight the effects and impact of the rioting and violence. Not long after the video was shared on social media, many started pointing to the similarities between the aerial shot and a scene from the 2013 movie, World War Z. In fact, they weren’t just similar, they were the same shot, leading to the suggestion MSNBC had - either accidentally or intentionally - used the clip.

Although now stopped, for days after the event there was a high frequency of Twitter posts condemning MSNBC over the use of the video. This is in spite of MSNBC having not used the clip as suggested, but the video being the work of a third-party. While MSNBC issued statements to news outlets stating the network did not broadcast those clips, in light of the backlash, some will have likely seen those statements as self-serving and part of an MSNBC attempt to cover-up the alleged act. However, what was much stronger evidence of of the MSNBC World War Z video being faked was the speaking up of a third-party who claimed ownership of the video.

The Bad Scooter Twitter account claimed to have originally made the video by taking the audio from the real MSNBC coverage and then pairing it with the World War Z clip. Furthermore, Bad Scooter explained how it was a mistake to make the video and that it wasn’t designed to be anti or pro-MSNBC. Bad Scooter deleted the original tweet, issued new ones apologizing to both Philadelphia and MSNBC for making the video, and even released the original clip to show where the audio had come from, along with the real MSNBC video.

In spite of Bad Scooter claiming responsibility for the video, many continued to share the edited clip on social media and driving the narrative that MSNBC has faked the footage. This was also in spite of those World War Z videos and images featuring a watermark that shouldn’t have been there. Right above the MSNBC watermark there was an additional one that read “Bad Scooter†and “Not Real.†A notation which which only further confirmed that Bad Scooter was responsible for the clip and the MSNBC World War Z video was a fake.

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Source: Bad Scooter/Twitter

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