ITV use fake videogame footage, claim its authentic IRA video shooting down chopper
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@lyte86 Ofcom news reffered me to this!
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I can see how they could believe that if they didn't fact check, since it seems like a very stereotypical old-fashioned low-res terrorist footage with screwed up colours etc.
Now, what I DO want to know though is how someone managed to get that clip, make up a story about it, and somehow not draw any suspicion at all. Imagine if it wasn't a game and was stock war footage? Then it'd would be even harder to pick, but just as unfactual!
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ooops they did it again
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I thought it was a mistake. What a bunch of dumbasses...
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I R A
IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY
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ARMA2 ARMA2 ARMA2 ARMA2
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Texture popping, cool.
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especially the part where the helicopter crew jumps out and deploys para-shoots.
Totally what the military does, jump out of a helicoper and deploy their parashoot with no danger to getting caught by the propeller or having the shoot not deploy from down ward wind pressure!
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Wow...really, no shit it's a video game. Any idiot could recognize it instantly
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lol
This is nothing new. A documentary in the 70s claimed to show IRA forces using Libyan arms, but it turned out to be footage from "Space Invaders".
geater 4 months ago 60
Absolutely disgraceful. I don't accept for a minute that this was inserted 'in error'. A producer who was both lazy and stupid saw the video on YouTube and decided to use it without bothering either to contact the copyright owner or check its authenticity. The fact that the narrator says that nobody died in the 'attack' shows that facts had been knowingly invented to accompany the clip. Somebody needs to get fired, and ITV needs to be referred to Ofcom.
lyte86 4 months ago 56