A TikTok video claims that a tropical cyclone as big as the Philippines, called Typhoon Beryl, will pass through the country. This is fake.
The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) has not issued any forecast that a storm with that name and scale is threatening to hit the country in the coming days.
According to PAGASA, there is currently no active tropical cyclone within the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) as of July 12, 2024.
Uploaded on July 7, the bogus video showed a satellite image of a huge storm system crossing the country along with a caption that read: “Typhoon Beryl 2024.”
The video emerged as Hurricane Beryl, which formed in the Atlantic Ocean on June 28 and reached Category 5 peak intensity on July 2, devastated countries in South America and the Caribbean, as well as the United States. It dissipated on July 11.
Some netizens in the comment section flagged the video for spreading disinformation, saying that Beryl made landfall in the U.S. Meanwhile, Filipino netizens who believed the video expressed worry over the typhoon’s size and wrote prayers.
Uploaded by TikTok user @phrimeverse, the fake video has received over 850,000 views, 13,000 interactions and 840 comments.
