CNN investigates Syrian prisoner’s ‘false identity’ in Clarissa Ward report • FRANCE 24

[@Gsp_in_NYC]

I have to admit--when I saw the piece on CNN, it looked fake. The guy was under a blanket and didn't look disheveled enough.

[@aditmacan]

Same with me..

[@Mildawg1]

The reporter fakes all her encounters but hey this is America - their entire culture is based on deception and in-authenticity.

[@fc4660]

Exactly it was like a game of hide and seek

[@Lyle-In-NO]

​@@proconsuls8458did you really? What # did u call? Was it easy to find? How did you reach someone who actually matters?

[@beasniper1]

I too called CNN to ask them how they could, but they didn't answer my phone call

[@kadengickling]

Thank you for the real journalism

[@joshboyer3655]

Such clean finger nails. Such bad acting. Bravo CNN.

[@Justanaccountforthings]

She done that fake video in 🇮🇱 also

[@TheTruth-ko9ov]

That man tried to act as a prisoner to escape the punishment of what he did to the civilians and he ended up to be the most easy captured 😂😂😂.

[@lisarhiad3988]

And what next?

[@toxic-o1u]

@@lisarhiad3988 If he was one of the torturers he will most likely get a harsh sentence.

[@yamadakenji4143]

Clarissa Ward speaks quite a few languages but her acting skills are not really that impressive

[@shebrewsherri1008]

That's the man! When I saw him, I knew he wasn't a prisoner. His eyes weren't bothered when he was taken outside. His clothes were clean, and they were really over acting when they were bringing him out of the prison. Lol. Thank you for telling everyone the truth.

[@VThree3]

What I wondered was why he was alone in a big room for all this time after everyone broke free. Surely he couldn't have had this whole room for him alone, and as everyone left he must have noticed something.

[@dotmarceo]

I knew it was fake when she came in speaking English.

[@Brittoxo]

Exactly

[@ДмитрийАндрианов-й4ы]

What was funny to me was not even the fact that this guy who jumped up energetically, just from the barber shop, was too clean and tidy, but how badly SHE played.

[@johnwinter5597]

She should be sacked immediately this woman and CNN are a disgrace

[@faithfaithmashavira5387]

She was awarded for her hilarious work by Joe.

[@Lyle-In-NO]

I've been in US jails multiple times, & the first thing I I thought when I saw the video was, "wow that blanket looks brand new. How can HE be an actual prisoner?" If you've ever been in any jail, the blankets, if you're lucky enough to get one, are torn bits of rags.

[@sillysausage2244]

I saw it earlier - so much bad 'acting' going on. Clarissa needs sacking and blacklisting.

[@mahzala9967]

Maybe she didn't know him, some Syrian comments say he was a prison guard who plays a victim now

[@ファティン-z2v]

Faking a report in the name of journalism should deserve a heavy punishment, somebody arrest that woman

[@imcbocian]

Definition of what is wrong with today's journalism. Instead of objectively reporting all available and unedited information, they play storytelling. Because the average recipient is too stupid to draw conclusions and form his own opinion.

[@walterhof2030]

He tricked them too 🤡 This Rebell fighter wouldnt react that way if he knew

[@benalba7192]

When everyone was weeping upon the plight of this man. I can sense he was staging it, he looks healthy, doesn’t seem hurt and overacting. Whether they colluded for audience purposes, even worse. But so obvious he stands out as not a prisoner

[@mariablume1967]

THAT was SOOOO obvious in SOOOO many ways!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@amourgagnetoujours]

The minute I saw the guy I knew he was trying to hide because he was working for the regime. It was very clear. He didn't want to let her hands because he thought they would recognise him.

[@voaniopalm3209]

CNN being CNN

[@nas6362]

Guys don’t hold a foreign woman’s hand, against culture! She was helping him walk, there was no need!!!

[@andyhoude4647]

Seems like an almost brilliant idea to escape being caught .. probably hoped CNN would help him escape the area

[@carrigan308]

That's probably why he was clinging to her the whole time. She was his lifeline.

[@leoniekutsch5375]

I was one of the people who douted that video of CNN. I wrote that it was Fake! Thank you for this research 👍

[@lindaSmith6588]

US press is in disarray!!!

[@faithfaithmashavira5387]

It's normally functioning.

[@mandarkastronomonov2962]

I actually wondered about this, especially when he started shaking. But I hoped I was wrong. Hey, it’s CNN. Why am I not surprised? 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@myhomelandchannel]

This could be seen even by the blind 😢

[@tuand3094]

Although this story is fake the prison is notorious for torture.

[@mecommenting]

It felt very fake to me the first time I saw it. The beard, the nail, how quick he stood up, how he looked to the sky... I mean c'mon we're usually dizzy in such circumstances

[@meghanelaraby277]

Clarissa did this sort of charades before!

[@anushkasirinivas7599]

100% it"s fake it was acting anyone can see

[@davedrifter416]

That segment looked sketchy from the start. A gun goes off and a man doesn’t jump out from under his nlanket? He didn’t look disoriented, his hair and beard were not in disarray.

[@gabrielekarl9278]

Megyn Kelly asked Herself why Mrs Ward talked to him in English and not in Arabic.

[@alvin9020]

It looked really staged. So badly done… 😅

[@OsbornsConcise]

I saw that report and it did feel fake and that he was not sincere

[@anikbarua5483]

In the USA we call it DNN- Disinformation News Network

[@wolvryn100]

It looked so staged and so cringey. The only thing i can’t believe is how dumb these news agencies think the public are.

[@dreamcat4]

really thank you again since showing who the guy actually was indeed bad person in the end, and it is an expected occurrences we had similar at the end of ww2 remembering past stories any bad guys who couldnt flee its typical, pretending to be victims thanks again for these excellent reporting follow up afterwards

[@20karisan]

I am addicted to this segment. It is the best of the news

[@user-cw3bo6vw3n]

Clarissa looks right around the corner to where he is laying. Doesn't take a minute to look around the room.

[@ParasShah3568]

Thanks France media

[@rent7142]

They said he hadn't eaten or drank for four days. That did not ring true for me when I watched this, he would have been in worse shape. Typical Americans.

[@syedsaifnaeem]

I swear when i saw that when it was first on-air over CNN that feels so fake.

[@machscga6238]

CNN is a complete embarrassment

[@normakhadra2355]

Does this broadcaster just love acting...or has the CNN channel become stupid and exposed?

[@Brandon-rc9vp]

My bet is on the perfecta - both scenarios are probably true.

[@Abraham-uk4xy]

Acting from before. I could remember she went to one rebel held area many years ago and said there are no rebels here. And they were standing all round her in their civilian clothes. Even some of the white helmets are understood to be rescurers by day and rebels by night.

[@SeleverChannel]

I noticed something weird on this video when I saw it. It is supposed that the prisoner was in total darkness in that cell, but, he was able to say that he was brought 3 weeks ago and they abandon him 4 days ago… how was he able to be so aware about the time he spent there if he was in total darkness?

[@mealien0808]

The first time I saw it, I laughed so hard.

[@Nick-mt4wk]

This was so obviously fake. They must have known before publishing this.

[@lamegalectora]

It does not surprise me from CNN

[@jakebob8116]

I saw it last week Its was fake

[@sivapk626]

Thank u France 24

[@godblessamerican5541]

Yinka nice to hear your voice again

[@homelandyDK]

Thank you for exposing that ridiculous false and staged video.

[@Cold_Spot]

Poor me....I fell for it

[@lilaluna379]

The guy played much better than a reporter herself, very poor acting. When I saw that her report it was not convincing even for a second. She is unprofessional as a journalist if she has no idea of professional ethics and such a bad actress 😂

[@meghanelaraby277]

It was so obvious that it was staged!

[@nyagudinyagudi2743]

The man was later shown admitted in a hospital

[@Sup666-n8l]

He was last seen in acapulco living la vida loca with the CNN paycheck

[@LindenButters]

I did wonder if he was actually one of the enemy hiding and making up excuses.

[@bruceroach436]

She looked like she was staging it when I first saw it🤣 that whole scene just looked funny… She looked so fakeally concerned 😅

[@clarify5887]

No fake no cnn

[@sad0mar101]

I have to admit as a pro syrian people, i believed it first but now i have my doubts, is this what we have been getting as news

[@lusitaniafilms]

It's SAD that we can't even Trust our News Companies. DISGUSTING!!!!

[@rustypumphrey9166]

Lead bullets don't break steel locks

[@CharlieHarper-d4x]

Velocity

[@CharlieHarper-d4x]

Velocity

[@Brandon-rc9vp]

Let's see if your logic holds...assuming a generously sized 5mm bar catch in the lock with hardened steel and around 400 MPa tensile strength, that would take about 100 Joules to break. He appeared to be holding an AK-74, which fires a 5.45x39mm NATO round with a standard bullet weight of 60ish grains or about 3.9 grams. Muzzle velocity of 850-900m/s...1/2mv^2...that's around 1500J-1600J for a point blank shot- so yes it should easily break the lock. Hardness doesn't come into play- you aren't trying to penetrate it, your just breaking it by exceeding it's tensile strength. An AK-74 can shoot holes in 6mm steel plate at 100 yards all day long.

[@pevlez]

I thought he looked suspicious

[@careyfreeman5056]

Typical CNN. Why this American watches this instead.

[@ronnieraptor]

My first comment when I saw that man is he does not look like a PRISONER to me. It looks like he disguised as a prisoner to avoid prosecution. I was right all along.

[@redcatctus]

Clarissa Ward should resign and retire from journalism!

[@Brandon-rc9vp]

Ward shouldn't be given the dignity of resignation, she should be sacked. Any news org that shows any of her content can no longer be trusted.

[@nailachowdhury3002]

This not something new for CNN and their reporters

[@LindenButters]

Hardly emaciated!

[@L.D.Intheditch]

Not surprised coming from CCPNN..

[@peace4598]

CNN was in on it.

[@NazmulHasan-dj5yb]

Western media, old habbit die hard. Louzy reporting.

[@captainchaoscow]

Bro you follow many hard core Muslim channels. What's up with this?

[@Trumben]

You know the video you’re watching now is western media right?

[@monikamajzner1866]

Non era dimagrito

[@MHALI-qv9yc]

So did he switch sides just as the moment hts took over fearing punishment? And was taken accidentally as a prisoner?

[@alexandrajohnson886]

Geez 😳

[@stevenchristy3175]

Yup thought it was fake af when I saw it

[@155stw]

Clarissa AWARD winner!

[@justayoutuber1906]

The screen flicking is super annoying. Stop acting like CNN

[@AzDaz-q1g]

Now there trying to spin a story that he was a soldier cause they got caught out

[@sneakersnake8825]

Easy to criticize when you're confortable in your studio...

[@peace4598]

CNN was clearly aware.

[@forgiveyourenemiesnow]

Clarissa Ward is the Karen of Journalism; making false claims.

[@gbadesakin]

It was obvious it was staged. It was either she didn’t know or she was in on it.

[@bneyens]

Clarissa Explains It All

[@AzmeraBahta]

I knew it, he seems not a prisoner at all

[@mikef4077]

Too bad CNN is looking for a reporter like murad gazdiev legend of all legendary.

[@thecohenz128]

I thought it was staged from the get go. Look how neatly shaved his cheek lines are! 🤷‍♀️

[@mahzala9967]

I think he was a prison guard who pretend being victim

[@sdcanada91]

I knew it!

[@ar2042]

CNN is investigating itself?

[@TalibanAtrocities]

The american too is a suspect story

[@MichelAngelaRavenscroft13a]

I knew.it🎉

[@bigguns8044]

The jokes on Ward

[@glenncheatham1320]

🤦🏻‍♂️🙄

[@KentioMohd]

CNN shall cover Abu garib as well.

[@Amirl.b]

Scam CNN mont

[@badgeologist]

I had douts , when I saw it, come on CNN, you can do better))

[@farrellware8399]

Imagine that? Good report!

[@GirlfromFinland]

I don’t understand the criticism, it wasn’t her fault if the guy gave her a wrong identity. Ppl are just jealous of Clarissa - for a reason.

[@ash5533]

😂😂😂 busted

[@faithfaithmashavira5387]

Hollywood 🤗🇺🇸🤗

[@aem7054]

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