No, this video does not show thousands of fish killed by radioactive Fukushima water
By France24
07 September 2023 |
3:17 pm
China has ramped up a months-long online disinformation campaign in response to Japan releasing treated radioactive water from the Fukushima power plant into the ocean. A video appearing to show the nefarious impact of the discharged water is going viral. But it is fake and has been debunked by AFP fact-checking, as Emerald Maxwell explains.
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