As misinformation swirled around Japan's release of treated wastewater from its stricken Fukushima nuclear plant, TikTok posts shared a video that they falsely claimed showed dolphins swimming away from the discharge. The footage was in fact filmed in Argentina in 2022, when a pod of dolphins swam towards the shore.
It is not clear what the creatures were doing in the area."Who is to blame when this happens?" the post says, including the hashtags #japannuclearwaste and #japandumpsnuclearwaste.the treated water poses no health risks -- a view backed by the United Nations' nuclear watchdog -- China has repeatedly criticised the release and banned all Japanese seafood imports.A reverse image search on Russian search engine Yandex found the video in an article that says it was filmed in Argentina.
Screenshot comparison of the video shared in the false TikTok post and in Infobae's article Screenshot comparison of the video used in the false post and a photo on Google Street View that the dolphins may have been trying to get away from a fishing boat or could have become"disorientated" and swam towards the port due to waste from the boat (
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