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Viral Nepal-China Landslide Video Garnering Millions of Views Exposed as Recycled Footage From Russia and Japan

A fake news clip racking up over a million views claimed to show "disaster footage of floods and landslides along the Nepal-China border." Thai PBS Verify investigated and found that the clip is a compilation of old footage from a 2025 Russian mudslide, mirrored horizontally, spliced with a 2021 Japanese landslide.

Aug 28, 2026