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Aerial photo of the Three Gorges Dam in Zigui County, Yichang City, Central China's Hubei Province, June 10, 2023. /CFP
The claims and images showing China's Three Gorges Dam were breached or on fire, which has been circulated on overseas social media platform recently, were denied as untrue, the Paper.cn reported on Monday.
As for the images, there are many details that do not match the reality of the Three Gorges Dam, said the Paper.cn.
For example, after searching those images on Google, Yandex and Baidu, the Paper.cn found that one image showing thousands of people stranded due to the burst of the dam actually first appeared in 2021 and it captured the scene of people and rescue teams working together to fight the flood at a village in Jishan County, north China's Shanxi Province.
Besides, the cliffs on both sides of an image, which shows the dam was breached, do not exactly correspond to the real dam somewhere, said the Paper.cn.
The Paper.cn also used Hive - an AI image detection tool - to check the images and found that those images have more than 99 percent probability of AI mapping.
Different from the rumors, the truth is recent monitoring of the water level in Yichang, where the Three Gorges Dam is located, shows that the water level of the Yichang hydrology station is about 44.5 meters and has not exceeded the water level warning line of 53 meters, the Paper.cn reported, citing data from the Changjiang Water Resources Commission of the Ministry of Water Resources.
Actually, there have been no reports of fire or breaches on the dam, the Paper.cn reported.
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