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MANCHESTER|21:04|England|Health

Video shared as a Manchester hospital incident is three years old

Recycled media identified by the Sceptic within four minutes of detection.

DEBUNKEDProof Score 8Independent lineages 1Primary sources 0Last AI recheck 1 hour ago
Human escalation

Cleared by human review: potential health misinformation category.

What we know

  • ✓The circulating footage was first published three years ago in a different city.

What we don't know

  • ?Who first reattributed the footage, and whether amplification was coordinated.

Summary

Generated only from the evidence dossier

No NHS trust, ambulance service or police source records any corresponding incident.

CLAIM-077

Assertion type: CLAIM

An incident occurred at a Manchester hospital as shown in circulating footage.

•DEBUNKED
8
Claim ID
CLAIM-077
Proof Score
8
Proofed at
—
Last rechecked
1 hour ago
Evidence count
1
Independent lineages
1

Principal score factors

  • Footage provenance predates claimed event-44
  • No official source records any incident-26
  • Single lineage across all reposts-14

Evidence

  • CONTRADICTORYEV-81 · lineage L1 · 21:00
    Media provenance analysis

    Earliest publication located three years prior, different city.

    Authoritative for: Footage provenance

Source tree · information lineage

  1. OriginOriginal footage, 3 years ago

    Different city

  2. Hop 1Reattributed repost

    1 hop

  3. Hop 2Mass repetition

    One lineage

The Sceptic · adversarial verification

  • ↯Actively searched for any contemporaneous corroboration before debunking; none exists.

Evidence graph

How the conclusion was constructed

  1. 01EVENT
  2. 02CLAIMS
  3. 03ORIGINAL SOURCES
  4. 04INDEPENDENT LINEAGES
  5. 05PRIMARY EVIDENCE
  6. 06OFFICIAL STATEMENTS
  7. 07DATA
  8. 08MEDIA
  9. 09SECONDARY REPORTING
  10. 10CONTRADICTORY EVIDENCE

Contradictions

Recorded, never hidden

  • Earliest known publication of the footage predates the claimed event by three years.

Proof ledger

Permanent chronological record

  1. 20:56
    SIGNAL DETECTED — rapid amplification
  2. 21:00
    Sceptic located original footage
  3. 21:04
    CLAIM-077 → DEBUNKED

Corrections

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