A man lying on the ground, clutching what appears to be a severed leg, screams in agony. The pro-Russia account that posted the video days before the Russian invasion of Ukraine claimed the man was a victim of a Ukrainian attack. But skeptics were quick to point out the leg was a prosthetic.
While an unsophisticated fake, it’s one of the thousands of images flooding social media around the invasion of Ukraine, keeping fact-checkers, like Giancarlo Fiorella, with Bellingcat, very busy.
Bellingcat, which takes its name from an old fable about mice conspiring to neutralize the threat of a cat by
