A Facebook post claims that international action star Jackie Chan was killed during the heavy flooding in China. This is fake.
Chan is alive and has not been a reported casualty of floods in Beijing. The photo in the post was made using artificial intelligence.
Uploaded on Aug. 2, the post carried a photo of the actor in a casket with a caption that read:
“Sad news: 15 minutes ago in Beijing, a massive flood claimed the lives of 30 people. More heartbreakingly, one of them was the legendary 2016 honorary Oscar winner – Jackie Chan. His wife, Joan Lin, sadly informed fans that her husband had…”
While at least 44 people were reported dead in Beijing because of heavy rains and extreme flooding from July 23 to 29, Chan was not among them.
The Oscar award-winning actor just attended the premiere of his upcoming film “The Shadow’s Edge” on Aug. 3, videos from Chinese social media Weibo show.
VERA Files Fact Check also ran Chan’s casket photo through the AI-detector tool Hive Moderation. The results showed the image is 99.9% “likely to contain AI-generated or deepfake content.”
The post asked netizens to click a link that leads to an e-commerce platform.
Uploaded by FB page Amazing TV, the spurious post has so far received 55,000 interactions.
