When I was researching Olympics stuff I came across an interesting article. This article was released from BBC in June of 2020, and claimed that the city of Tokyo Japan set off some fireworks to basically cheer up people in Japan. The article said this was mostly done because the Tokyo 2020 Olympics had been cancelled and a lot of Japan was sad, because they were looking forward to the Olympics. Apparently people were watching the fireworks all over the country. Also, the article claimed another reason they did the Fireworks was because a lot off the fireworks makers were struggling with their business due to the pandemic. After reading this article a few times I thought some stuff seemed unreliable, so I went through some fact checking methods to see if this story was real.
- I looked at the article and I found there was no author to the article. There was also no key words I found in the article, like source. The article was from BBC which is a trustworthy network, but the article also said the firework displays were from ‘secret’ locations, which I thought was a bit suspicious.
2. Next, I went to a google search and searched Tokyo sets off Olympics fireworks hoax. This gave me many articles, most saying that the fireworks display was fake. There was a lot of trustworthy articles that all said the same thing so I almost knew that the fireworks display was not real.
3. After I did the google search I went to what I know is a trustworthy fact checking source snopes.com. Snopes.com clearly said that the fireworks was false and it was created using a simulation.
After doing my research I did find out that Japan setting off fireworks was false. All I had to do to find this out was read through the article, do a google search and involve the word hoax and visit snopes.com. Snopes.com was a quick and reliable fact checking source and I would recommend it for fact checking.
thanks for reading
Adam Agosti