Old photos falsely shared as 'warships from all over the world heading to South China Sea'

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Multiple social media posts have misrepresented photos of a 2017 joint patrol between US and Japanese navies in the Sea of Japan, falsely claiming they show recent images of 'warships from all over the world' heading to the disputed South China Sea.

Multiple social media posts have misrepresented photos of a 2017 joint patrol between US and Japanese navies in the Sea of Japan, falsely claiming they show recent images of"warships from all over the world" heading to the disputed South China Sea. The false posts were shared hundreds of times amid escalating confrontations between Chinese and Philippine ships as Beijing stepped up efforts to push its claims to the disputed waterway.

"Based on our daily monitoring, we have not received such reports from our frontline units," Ariel Coloma, spokesman of the western command of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, told AFP on June 19, 2024.on June 1, 2017 by the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service -- a US military public affairs service (archived links

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