Video shows a CNN segment about “veterans cancelling their auto insurance.”
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Altered video appears to show CNN segment about veteran car insurance
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This video was altered; it’s not a real CNN segment.
What looks like a CNN breaking news segment about car insurance for veterans is drawing attention on social media, but maybe not the attention the account posting the video hoped for.
"Scam," many comments said.
The video in the Aug. 18 Facebook post features CNN’s logo and a "breaking news" chyron that says: "Veterans are cancelling their auto insurance and doing this instead."
"As a veteran, I qualified for the 2024 Veteran & Military Monetary Relief Plan AND apparently you can use it to cut down on your auto insurance," the post said. "All I did to qualify was to tap the button below, answer a quick questionnaire, and they got me the same coverage at almost $1,600 less per year!"
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We saw no button to click to "answer a quick questionnaire," but some people commenting on the post reported that it yielded only phone calls and quotes from major insurers.
The video itself is altered. The audio is out of sync with the person supposedly talking in the video. No such story exists on CNN’s website. And the network spells canceling with one L, not two, as the word appears in the purported chyron.
We rate claims this is an authentic CNN segment False.
Our Sources
Facebook post, Aug. 18, 2024
CNN, Smerconish: Canceling cancel culture, Oct. 23, 2021
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