14 DAY TRIAL // These days, pretty much every little device that catches fire almost instantly makes the headlines, especially after the Samsung Note 7 fiasco which confirmed that smartphones aren’t exactly safe pieces of technology.
But in addition to the photos and videos that indeed show phones catching fire, there are also people spreading fake news across the Internet for reasons that we’re not going to discuss right now. But what we’re going to do instead is to debunk one of the latest clips making the rounds right now.
The video you can see below claims to show an iPhone 7 Plus literally exploding in the hand of its owner. If you watch carefully, you can see the alleged device catching fire in a way that you wouldn’t normally expect, as it causes quite a huge flame that could have easily led to more injuries.
By the looks of things, the owner was pretty lucky because the only injuries he suffered were those burns to his left hand that you can see at the beginning of the video, next to the alleged black iPhone 7 that exploded.
Only that the video is totally fake, and with a little research, everyone can figure this out. There are three different ways to tell this.
Debunked
First of all, let’s start with the one that’s less obvious. The surveillance camera footage shows the man holding the phone with both hands, but judging from the photo that’s included in the beginning of the video, only his left hand suffered the injuries.
Second of all, it’s the hand that got the burns. The man in the video throws the device to the ground and then looks at his right hand, obviously because this is the one that was affected by the explosion. You can see him clearing debris from the right palm with the left hand. In the start of the video, however, the burns are shown on the left hand, even though it’s very obvious from the video that the left wasn’t as affected as the right.
And last but not least, it’s the photo with the hand that allegedly suffered the burns. Although the video claims to show the outcome caused by the explosion, the photo pointing to the burns actually dates back to 2015 and was actually published online after an external charger exploded. You can see in the photo below that the same photo was used by other news websites when reporting the explosion of the power bank.
So there you go, yet another video spreading false information on the Internet. Hopefully, more people would look for details that would help determine the legitimacy of these videos before they go viral. Fake iPhone 7 explosion video is fake.
