Old video of Marina Beach falsely linked to cyclone Mandous
After cyclone Mandous made landfall in Tamil Nadu on 9 December, a video showing the rising sea waters reportedly at Chennai’s Marina Beach is going viral.
By Md Mahfooz Alam Published on 12 Dec 2022 1:40 PM GMT
Hyderabad: After cyclone Mandous made landfall in Tamil Nadu on 9 December, a video showing the rising sea waters reportedly at Chennai's Marina Beach is going viral.
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Fact Check
NewsMeter performed a reverse image search of the video's keyframe and found a tweet carrying an extended version of the same video in a report published by Scroll.in on 12 November 2021.
According to the report, the video shows the sea rising to the road after heavy rainfall at Marina Beach in Chennai.
We also found that the video was shared by several users on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter in 2021.
Further, we geolocated Marina Beach on Google Maps and found visuals similar to the viral video.
It is evident that the video has been on the Internet since November 2021. Hence, the claim that it shows the effect of Cyclone Mandous after it hit Chennai is misleading.
