FACT CHECK: Video doesn’t show Antarctica as an ‘ice wall’ around ‘flat Earth’

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The video misrepresents the Anjihai Grand Canyon in Xinjiang, China as the Antarctica ‘ice wall,’ claiming it as proof of the scientifically disproven flat Earth theory

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The video, posted on Facebook Reels, has garnered 4,900 reactions, 3,300 comments, and 593 comments as of writing. The video shows a supposed “ice wall” accompanied by the text “The flat Earth ice wall they call it Antarctica.” Based on the comments, the video implies that Antarctica is not a continent, but a wall of ice surrounding the world, proving the flat Earth theory.: The video does not show an Antarctic ice wall nor does it show proof that the Earth is flat.

A reverse image search shows that the video is about the Anjihai Grand Canyon, located in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region in China’s northwest. by People’s Daily, a Chinese state-controlled media network. The original video’s caption reads: “You may discover how tiny and frail we human beings are when compared with the nature in Anjihai Grand Canyon, NW China’s Xinjiang.”

The misleading Facebook reel heavily edited the original video, reversing the images and adding a blue hue to give the impression of an “ice wall.”What’s the controversy over the P23-B new Senate building all about?, the Anjihai Grand Canyon is also known as the Hongshan Grand Canyon. Sitting at the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, the canyon, which comprises steep cliffs and jagged rocks, stretches around 30 kilometers and has an estimated depth of 400 meters.

Source: Entertainment Trends (entertainmenttrends.net)

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