Australian couple quarantined onboard Diamond Princess cruise reveal wine drone delivery story.
The headline states: "Aussie Couple Ordered Wine Via Drone On Quarantined Coronavirus Cruise Ship.", The article reads in part: "Jan and Dave Binskin, from Queensland, have documented their journey of boredom and booze while stranded on the Diamond Princess ship off the coast of Tokyo for the past week., "The couple then reached out to the Naked Wine Club and — much to their delight — received two bottles of Pinot Noir that was delivered to their cabin door by drone.", Below is a screenshot of the misleading article:, The Binskins were quarantined on the Diamond Princess cruise ship off the coast of Japan at the time. As of February 17, 2020, at least 355 people on board have been infected with the coronavirus despite passengers being confined to their cabins during a 14-day quarantine, as reported in this\xa0AFP article., A similar claim about the wine delivery was made in this article by the MailOnline, the website for British\xa0newspaper The\xa0Daily Mail., The New York Post\xa0also reported the story here. Tweets linking to the New York Post article can be found here, here, here and here., Other news articles featuring the same story were published\xa0here\xa0by US-based\xa0technology site Gizmodo,\xa0here\xa0by US news site ABC 14 News, here\xa0by Australian based news site Nine.com.au, and\xa0here\xa0by Australian news site Pedestrian.tv., , The claim is false; the couple told a national radio programme that the story was a joke., In an interview published here by\xa0Australia’s Radio National\xa0on February 17, 2020, Jan Binskin said the story was a “just an upbeat, positive prank” and that the couple only drank\xa0wine that was already on the ship., “We got it from our cabin steward,” Binskin can be heard saying\xa0at the 11-minute mark in the clip, after she was asked about the wine delivery.\xa0“We just couldn’t believe that. Because nobody ever checked it, and all of a sudden we knew it was on the news. It just came off our personal Facebook. It was just an upbeat, positive prank...it was like "gotcha!"\, The couple published this photo\xa0of a wine bottle and two glasses on Facebook on February 9., The post\s caption states: "Do people still believe in fairy tales ?????😆😆😆😂😂😂🤣🤣🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷🚢🚢🚢🚢"., , The confusion arose after the couple posted this image of the wine on their shared Facebook page on February 7.\xa0 The post\s caption states: "Naked Wine Club your sic\xa0incredible just got the First Drop Thank God For Drones the Japanese Coast Guard did not know what the Fuck was going on.", , Copyright © AFP 2017-2020.  All rights reserved.  Users can access and consult this website and use the share features available for personal, private, and non-commercial purposes.  Any other use, in particular any reproduction, communication to the public or distribution of the content of this website, in whole or in part, for any other purpose and/or by any other means, without a specific licence agreement signed with AFP, is strictly prohibited.  The subject matter depicted or included via links within the Fact Checking content is provided to the extent necessary for correct understanding of the verification of the information concerned.  AFP has not obtained any rights from the authors or copyright owners of this third party content and shall incur no liability in this regard.  AFP and its logo are registered trademarks.
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