More than ten days after two catastrophic earthquakes struck Turkey and Syria, there’s nonetheless a large number of disinformation circulating on social media in regards to the herbal crisis.
The newest instance: a tweet by means of the Chinese embassy in France revealed this week. The now-deleted submit confirmed a video of a bridge in Turkey that the Chinese govt claimed to have constructed.
The embassy went so far as to mention the construction resisted the robust earthquake because of their generation and the hashtag #ChinaTech used to be obviously a solution to boast about Chinese innovation within the area.
Later, a piece of writing used to be revealed by means of a Chinese govt web page claiming the Çanakkale Bridge remained intact after the earthquakes, and used to be in-built partnership with the Chinese corporate Sichuan Lu Qiao.
Did China in reality construct the bridge?
The bridge does exist and is situated within the Western a part of Turkey, neighbouring Greece and Bulgaria. It’s additionally the longest suspension bridge on the planet.
The Cube searched a global database which collects details about other constructions around the globe and discovered that no Chinese corporate used to be majorly excited about its development.
The design used to be spearheaded by means of Tekfen Insaat Ve Tesisat A.S., a Turkish corporate and the detailed design used to be looked after by means of an organization based totally in Denmark known as COWI AS.
According to the bridge’s authentic web page, 4 different corporations invested within the development of the bridge: two are Turkish and the opposite two are South Korean.
A bridge situated… 1,000 kilometres clear of the epicentre
But the second one a part of the tweet that doesn’t take a look at is the truth that the bridge is greater than 1,000 km away from the epicentre of the earthquakes which hit with regards to this town of Gaziantep within the east.
A map of the aftershocks displays obviously that the bridge is simply too a long way away to were impacted in anyway by means of the earthquake.
After receiving an enormous wave of complaint each from social media customers in addition to the French media, the Chinese embassy deleted the internet article in addition to the tweet.
