In October 2019, ABC “News” broadcast video supposedly from Syria, depicting an attack by the Turkish military on Kurdish town and civilians. ABC later apologized that the video was not from Syria but from a gun range in Kentucky in 2017.

Both ABC News anchor Tom Llamas and foreign correspondent Ian Panell described the video as a military bombing in Syria during their nightly broadcast. “This video, obtained by ABC News, appears to show the fury of the Turkish attack on the border town of Tal Abyad two nights ago,” said Panell, while Llamas also told viewers the footage appeared to show “Turkey’s military bombing Kurd civilians in a Syrian border town.”

However, Gizmodo, a tech site, said the explosions in the video are very likely from a YouTube titled “Knob Creek Night Shoot 2017,” a biannual event hosted at a local gun range in West Point, Kentucky.

Source: Fake Bombing by Kayla Kibbe, InsideHook, 2019. Graphic: Beat the Press, PBS.