Edited Video Viral as CNN Showing ‘Fake Attacks’ Amid Israel-Hamas War

CNN's report from the Israel-Gaza border was edited to include a voice-over.

The video is being shared to claim that CNN's team was pretending to cover "fake attacks" at the Israel-Gaza border.

(Source: X/Altered by The Quint)

A video showing American news organisation CNN's team running and taking cover near the Israel-Gaza border amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war has gone viral on social media.

• The video includes audio commentary by an off-camera person, who sounds like they are issuing directions to the team on how to act in front of the camera.

What are users claiming?: This video is being shared on social media, where users are accusing CNN of "faking" dangerous situations and furthering propaganda.

An archive of this post can be seen here.

(Source: Facebook/Altered by The Quint)

(Archives of more posts with the same claim can be seen here and here.)

Is it true?: No, the video is edited. The audio of a person issuing directions to the team was added by an organisation called 'The Quartering', who said that the audio was "not real."

How did we find out?: We looked for the original footage of the team, led by CNN's international correspondent Clarissa Ward.

We came across the organisation's coverage on their verified YouTube channel, where it was first published on 9 October, two days after Hamas attacked Israel.

Here, we noticed that there was no voice-over issuing directions to the reporter and her team.

• In the viral claim, we saw the words 'The Quartering' on the top-left corner of the frame.

The video in the claim shows the words 'The Quartering' on one corner.

(Source: X/Altered by The Quint)

Taking a cue from this, we looked for social media accounts with the same name.

• The search led us to an account on X (formerly Twitter), which had shared a video of CNN's report on 11 October in its post.

• Replying to its post, The Quartering, which calls itself a 'news and content website', mentioned that "of course the voice-over isn't real."

We also came across another user, '@stevenvoiceover' on X, who shared the video.

• They replied to a user comment, stating that they threw in a line referring to the 1999 film The Blair Witch Project "to make it obvious it was a meme."

The person who recorded the voice-over said "it was a meme."

(Source: X/Altered by The Quint)

Commenting on the viral video, a CNN spokesperson told New York Post that the audio used in the viral video was "fabricated, inaccurate and irresponsibly distorts the reality of the moment that was covered live."

Conclusion: An edited video is being shared to claim that CNN faked attacks while reporting from the Israel-Gaza border.

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