At the end of June 2024, a video was dispersed through Telegram channels, allegedly shot on one of the Spanish beaches shortly after the event of “green” activists. We checked whether such a description of this video is correct.
The 38-second video shows the beach within the city, littered with a huge amount of garbage. According to the signature, this is the La Malaget Beach in the Spanish Malaga the day after the festival dedicated to environmental problems.
In the Russian -language segment of the network, this news was most widespread in Telegram - largely thanks to the channels "Ax 18+"(2.1 million views at the time of writing this analysis),"Russia now"(251 000),"Freshness"(243,000),"Sheikh Tamir"(158 000) and"Mousetrap"(149 000). Published it in other languages, including Spanish.
La Malaget - The beach in the center of Malaga. On a panorama in the service Google Street View You can see a sculptural composition, which is the name of the beach. It is she, only on the reverse side, is captured at the beginning and at the end of the viral video.
Back search On screenshots in Google, in particular, to the page of a non -profit organization Andalimpia On Instagram. June 24, this NPO published not only dispersed through Telegram channels videobut also many other pictures with a contaminated beach.
Judging by Description On the official website, andalimpia unites volunteers who collect garbage in public places in Malaga and its environs. How should From the posts of the organization on social networks, the work on La Malaget was provided to them by the holiday of San Juan, which takes place in Spain on the 20th of June and marks the arrival of the hottest time in the year (an analogue of this holiday among the Eastern Slavs-Ivan Kupala). IN Andalusia The main events are held annually on the night of June 24, and one of the main platforms in Malaga —— La-Malaget beach where you can attend concerts and pyrotechnic shows. Guests of the holiday usually leave behind mountains of garbage - by data The city council of Malaga, in 2024, 23 tons of waste were removed from local beaches, which, however, 38% less than a year earlier. Volunteers from Andalimpia posted photos from both siders in which they took an active part and expressed Hopethat in a year such festivities on the la-malage will not be repeated. Not only Malaga suffers from garbage that night - in Barcelona this year the scale of pollution was still higher.
Thus, the viral video was distributed with the wrong description: the video was shot by eco -activists who helped to clean the beach after a holiday, in no way related to environmental protection.
According to the TGSTAT service, the first (at least in the Russian -speaking segment of Telegram) the video with a similar signature posted the channel "Freshness»June 24 at 18:37 Moscow time (5400 reposts). He was previously repeatedly Strengthened In the spread of misinformation.
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