A video from a British broadcaster shows Italian coronavirus victims got taken down.
The claim appeared in a post published by Vinh Bảo on March 21, 2020, titled "Sky news vid that got taken down" (archived here)., Users on social media only saw this:, It appears a Vietnamese content-stealing YouTube channel lifted the Sky News report by Chief Correspondent Stuart Ramsay, claiming it was taken down., "In fact, it was not removed at all. Here is the original video from the networks YouTube channel:", , "Our Trendolizer engine created a graph of the number of views of the original video, which has spiked. Interestingly, the copycat version has received more than 1.5 million views on YouTube as of March 22, 2020 - more than the original piece on Skys YouTube feed.", , The Sky News website also has a full write-up by Ramsay with the video embedded:, "The mortuary assistant beckoned for us to follow him. We passed room after room full of coffins. At the end of a corridor he opened a door and gestured that we go inside what I could see was a church. I didnt understand, but as we turned the corner we were confronted by more rows of coffins.", , There is a lot of disinformation online related to the novel coronavirus. Here are some other fact checks by Lead Stories you may want to check out:, See who is sharing it (it might even be your friends...) and leave the link in the comments.:, Lead Stories is working with the CoronaVirusFacts/DatosCoronaVirus Alliance, a coalition of more than 100 fact-checkers who are fighting misinformation related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Learn more about the alliance here., "Ryan Cooper, a staff writer and fact-checker for Lead Stories, is the former Director of Programming at CNN International, where he helped shape the networks daily newscasts broadcast to more than 280 million households around the world. He was based at the networks Los Angeles Bureau. There, he managed the team responsible for a three-hour nightly program,\xa0Newsroom LA.", "Formerly, he worked at the headquarters in Atlanta, and he spent four years at the London bureau. An award-winning producer, Cooper oversaw the networks Emmy Award-winning coverage of the uprising in Egypt in 2011. He also served as a supervising producer during much of the networks live reporting on the Israel-Hezbollah conflict in 2006, for which CNN received an Edward R. Murrow Award.", Lead Stories is a fact checking website that is always looking for the latest false, deceptive or\n      inaccurate stories (or media) making the rounds on the internet.\n      \n      Spotted something? Let us know!., Lead Stories is a fact checking website that is always looking for the latest false, deceptive or\n        inaccurate stories (or media) making the rounds on the internet.\n        \n        Spotted something? Let us know!.
Fact Check: Sky News Video About Coronavirus Victims In Italian Hospital Did NOT Get Taken Down | Lead Stories