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MSNBC Report mixed Visuals of World War Z on Philadelphia Protest Broadcast

Screenshots and videos shared across social media, the Netizens have pointed out that the media house MSNBC falsely claims to have used a clip from the action zombie movie World War Z in its coverage of the protests in Philadelphia.

The Netizens were quick to point out the sharing of a doctored video that had the graphics and voice over from an authentic MSNBC report being mixed with visuals from the World War Z movie trailer. MSNBC confirmed to the reports to Reuters that the edited video and screenshots from it were fake.

A twitter user “Bad Scooter” took responsibility for creating the doctored clip, “I’m not part of any group, I’m not even a trump supporter. It was just a dumb joke/edited video out of the stupid boredom and I apologize!”

The twitter user also tweeted a link to a clip of the original MSNBC broadcast showing people outside a Foot Locker store during the riots in Philadelphia, he presented to show the source of the voice-over audio and graphics.

The Netizens were quick to call it distress over “fake news,” in the posts on twitter, the screenshots from the doctored video and the movie World War Z are placed alongside each other to notice to key difference. Lost of the posts falsely claim that the screenshots together are evidence of clearly “fake news.”