A post is going viral on social media. In this viral post, the person is claiming that he has found a lost nuke and uses it to make electricity for his house since more than 27 long years. The man has been arrested for this crime.
With this Facebook post going viral, the cutting of the reputed news channel CNN is engaged. According to this cutting, this man from Florida had found America’s lost atomic bomb. Which this person is making electricity by using it for 27 years.
Fact Check
The cutting of this news going viral is being told of CNN. It is also clear from this cutting that this news has been posted on 12 April 2022 at 11 am. So first we checked on CNN’s website and social media accounts. But on 12 April 2022, no such news or post was seen by CNN.
After this we searched the ‘title’ of this news on Google. But we could not find any news matching its title. Although this news was found on some websites, but the news of those websites was published citing viral posts.
After this, we investigated these pictures by doing reverse image search on Google. On searching, we found an article from ‘The Guardian’ about the man in the first picture. According to this article, this person is guilty of making racist comments. His name is Todd Warneken. It threatened and thrashed an American black woman during the US presidential elections in 2016.
On searching the second picture, we found an article from Germany’s “DW”. According to this article- “Wartime ammunition still rotting in German waters”. In fact, the ammunition that fell into the sea during World War II is still present in German waters.
