{"id":243334,"date":"2025-11-04T13:19:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T13:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/243334\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T13:19:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T13:19:11","slug":"bbc-verify-live-video-captures-blast-at-russia-oil-plant-1000km-from-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/243334\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Verify Live: Video captures blast at Russia oil plant 1,000km from Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Internet returns to Tanzania but social media still restrictedpublished at 11:28 GMT<\/p>\n<p>11:28 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/b5c4d397-173c-4494-9136-e8dc366915d0.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Richard Irvine-Brown<br \/>BBC Verify journalist<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The internet has partially returned to Tanzania after being shut down since the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cpv1ddevk9go\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">disputed re-election of President Samia Suluhu Hassan on Wednesday.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hundreds of people have reportedly been killed in protests and violence in the wake of the contested vote, which is when internet monitoring organisation NetBlocks has said network connectivity was first turned off by the Tanzanian government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Netblocks confirmed yesterday connectivity had been restored, but added that significant restrictions still apply to social media and messaging platforms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Isik Mater, director of research at NetBlocks, told BBC Verify these restrictions &#8220;limit access to information at a critical time&#8221;. &#8220;The internet is a basic digital right and essential for transparency and public participation during elections,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Because shutdown has prevented Tanzanians from sharing what\u2019s happening, another consequence of it has been old images from other countries wrongly being posted on social media as if from recent unrest. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One video claimed to be soldiers blocking a street in Tanzania, but matched footage shared by Madagascan social media accounts during protests there in October. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Another showing hundreds of protesters in the streets is at least six years old and from Port au Prince in Haiti. This is clear because a sign for the Office Nationale d\u2019Assurance-Vieillesse, a Haitian government department, is visible in the background.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A screenshot from a video showing hundreds of people marching in a street, with sign for a Haitian government department visible in the background\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/b2dab7b9-7fb2-4456-8f83-e639d03f05c9.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"800\" height=\"562\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This video, wrongly claimed to be from Tanzania, was filmed in Haiti\u2019s capital Port au Prince and shared in 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Internet returns to Tanzania but social media still restrictedpublished at 11:28 GMT 11:28 GMT Richard Irvine-BrownBBC Verify journalist&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-243334","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}