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That viral video claimed on social media to show looters pillaging a Los Angeles home amid the wildfires?
I tracked down the woman who was living there. She says the footage shows her nephews and son rescuing her belongings as her rental home caught fire.
https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.36TW49E
That viral video claimed on social media to show looters pillaging a Los Angeles home amid the wildfires?
I tracked down the woman who was living there. She says the footage shows her nephews and son rescuing her belongings as her rental home caught fire.
https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.36TW49E
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She said she feels "enraged" that people are "giving false info" about her family copes with a tragedy that made their home uninhabitable.
Here is her GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/bring-hope-to-a-family-after-altadena-fire
"I did take those videos, and those people were not looting," Jamie Lee Taete said. "They were helping to move items across the street, away from the approaching fire."
https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.36TW49E
NPR even reported on her plight.
But the clips miscaptioned online do not show that. They show her own family.
Now their faces have been plastered online alongside false smears.
https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.36TW49E