The Beeb's news site has some examples of the sort of bogus stuff floating around, people relabeling old videos of aircraft flyovers or explosions as breaking news from the front lines.
Some scammers are even trying to monetize it, because people are terrible.
Some of the livestreams appear to be authentic, showing crowds gathered in major cities to protest Russian aggression. But other TikTok users are pretending to be in Ukraine, using doctored or dubbed footage of other places in an attempt to solicit followers and monetary donations.
One account, which called for donations through TikTok, featured a livestream of a line of houses in a residential area as the sounds of gunshots, sirens and people screaming for help could be heard in the background. But that account hours earlier had posted a different angle of the same street in which cars with U.K. license plates were visible.
